Rain!!!

For all of you non-So. Cal'ers out there, it actually rained (OMG... imagine that) this morning in my part of the south valley. It was a nice relaxing sort of sound, and was a decent change from the heat and h*ll that is living here in the summer.

Another good thing - I repaired the gutter that hangs on the back part of our house, which apparently had not been attached to the house when it was installed. This was initially a surprise, as we found this out a month after we moved in and there was another freak rainstorm that almost ruined some stuff that was on our porch. But with all of the other rinky-dink sh-tuff that we found out after we bought the house, I am not surprised.

Anyway, I looked outside today, before CTG and I went to her work (I gave a lecture to her Bio class on Earth History) and everything seemed to be good, except where there was a small hole in the gutter that was designed to anchor it in a different position. It will be siliconed closed this weekend.

I hope that it comes back tonight, as the cooling was nice. Unfortunately, I have to clean up the exterior of the house, where the trees dropped all of their leaves in our yard. I might just run the lawn mower with the bag on to help with this little problem next weekend. I mowed on Tuesday and edged the yard Wednesday, so it would be overkill to do something about it tomorrow.

Today

Nothing really new to report, except that I know just when to goto Burbank and not have to be in a traffic jam on I-5. Apparently it is between 9 and about 11 am on a Sunday morning. This is the first time in my life, that I have traveled in that city, and not been stopped in my automobile within that city's limits. Also, I found out that IKEA has a great breakfast for a decent price. CTG and I both got a meal for a total of under $8.00. It was even rather healthy.



We got some good ideas for the house, to fill the need for storage and other things that will make the house our home.

House Inspection

Done. Better than expected results. Not too much to fix/have fixed by the nucking idiot and his family. We met Mrs. Nucking-idiot, and she isn't an idiot at all. I am now fully convinced that it was Mr. Nucking-idiot that was the great stalling fuck-knob that was making our lives total hell. I digress, but any way, she was VERY nice and she actually told us that she would introduce us to the neighbors. We told her that we would take her up on the offer the next time we saw them. I think that this just might turn out quite well.
Got to go, have to start making the list of repairs that we want them to do. More later.

--GMT

they signed it

I am pissed off

I hate people. No, I really, really, really hate people. sheeple suck. More on this later...

I realize that I totally hate waiting. It is driving me totally bat-shit, and I am actually known for my great amount of patience.

Bugger, bugger, bugger...grrrr...feel like Bruce Banner again...

Hate...Welling...Again

April 23

When someone says that they are going to call by 8:00 PM, what does that mean? It is now 9:15, and I don't see the call coming in tonight. I can just swear that these motherfuckers are playing with us again...

If we get the house, the only way that I would shake the individual's hand is if he begged upon his knees and kissed my feet first. I am absolutely fucking through with these people. I also have half a mind to piss on the contract that they might just sign and tell them to shove it up their stinky, shit-encrusted, assholes for trying to play us the way that they are. How fucking hard is it to say yes or no to the FINAL FUCKING OFFER you knobbly dick sucking faggots. I find it pretty fucking simple if you fucking ask me...

I feel like Bruce Banner, about ready to turn green and go ape-shit all over some turdling that is pissing me off.
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Update: 7:30 am, 24th of April

THEY COUNTERED THE FUCKING FINAL OFFER. THEY HAVE GOT TO BE THE MOST STUPID, IDIOTIC, NUMBSKULLS IN THIS NATION, LET ALONE THE WHOLE WORLD.

I guess that our money wasn't truely good enough for them. To Mr. and Mrs. Dumbshit, FUCK YOU!
I am done. :-)

Still no news

Moving sucks, but those who know about how many times I have moved in my past, you would say "good for you" when I tell you that I am trying to buy a house...
The end is almost here, at least on house #1. We have done our best, and are waiting for the final offer to be accepted or not. I feel that an ultimatum should be issued today; so that we may move on, or purchase the house outright. We have possibly found a suitable backup to house #1, and all we need to hear is the yes/no from our offer to start on it.

"I feel better"

To quote one of my more favorite Monte Python movie quotes. I am finally getting over the disappointment of last week's house insanity. Things seem to be looking up, and I am more positive thinking. And it was even the first day back from spring break. Who'd of thunk it...

Well, wish us luck in the grand house hunt and everything else. I hope you all are doing well in your necks of the woods. Until we meet (again), drink a beer for us in high hopes. :-)

What the fuck is up with some people?

If you haven't heard, I am totally pissed off. Work has been off for a week due to spring break, and I am not mad at that for a change. My DW and I have been in the hunt for a house here in our neck of the woods and we seemed to find one that suited our needs quite well, AND in our assumed price range.

The house sits on the market for 3 weeks. There are NO offers on it. we make an offer, that was thought to be a good beginning bid, not only by our agent, but by the owners agents as well. From what we gathered, at least half of the owners felt that we were out of our fucking minds when we offered what seemed to them as an "insulting" bid. They seem to be smoking something that makes them seem like they are in a market that is still peaking (as it was about 24 months ago).


We wait the 3 days as was dictated in our offer, only to find out that they didn't like the bid. They sent back the offer, with their changes made in marked pen, while crossing out our numbers and contingencies to the sale. And to gall us even more, they increased the price by a whopping $10,000. Oh, and by the way, they also demanded 3% up front in CASH. I know that these terms might seem ok to someone out there that just might read this, but if we had that kind of cash just lying around, we would be in the market for a MUCH BETTER piece of property.

So I ranted with this at secondbreakfast.net You will know who I am, if you want to read the rant. I am not too much better since I wrote that, but seething inside is the best thing that I seem to be able to do right now.

We drove by today, while looking at a different piece of property in that neighborhood. They still had up the for sale sign, and there wasn't any business going on at the residence. I think that they lost their only buyers in us for a very long time. I just hope that no one else has their eye on that piece of property. I want them to squirm for another month when they realize that they fucked up royally. We might not be in the market for a house by that time, and I don't foresee them getting a better price than what we offered in the next few months.