Wednesday, October 29, 2008

Days 205 - 212

What is it about Conference Centers that requires them to buy ugly carpeting?

So...I'm staying at this Hotel in Miami Beach...the Eden Roc Resort...
Day 1 I get a 3 different room keys from the front desk that don't work...They had to come reprogram the lock to get it to work...
You can't get to the beach from the hotel...because of all the remodeling...You have to walk about 300 yards down the construction zone to get there...
Last night there was a fire in the parking garage and we had to stand out on the street for 20 minutes while the fire dept put it out...and it's freakin' cold in Miami right now...so that was fun...
I ordered my $17 hamburger...and got the wrong $4 coke...
and I got stuck on the 4th floor in the elevator...because it wouldn't open...
Surely...one day this is going to be a nice hotel...but...It isn't ready for this many guests...not today...





Tuesday, October 21, 2008

Day 204


It makes me question my whole decision making process....when I go to my orthopedic doctor..and he has THIS art in his lobby....
I mean...
come on...
THIS....
in your lobby?  Is the best you can do?
Really?

Monday, October 20, 2008

Day 203

Not too much with the house today....I picked up about 60 pounds of lawn clippings...dumped them in my woods...
That's right...my new lot has woods...so...I created a huge mulch pile...

Here's another shot from our DC trip...Arlington is a spectacularly moving place to visit...

Sunday, October 19, 2008

Days 200 -202

What a weekend...
We got all sorts of help...and accomplished all sorts of stuff...

Got my hands on a Z-turn mower...Totally awesome...
I mowed the yard...twice...
and as you can tell from this wonderful photo....over 1/2 the yard was taller than me sitting on the mower...

We got 3 or 4 nice sized loads of stuff brought over...and it's starting to feel like our place...

Haven't met too many neighbors yet...hopefully they won't hate us.  :o)

Thursday, October 16, 2008

Days 187-199

So...I was boycotting my own blog for a while there...No good reason...other than the fact that I was SICK of saying that I had no news about the house...
Well....that's all different now...
We are officially Land Barons...owning property in 2 states...

I'm sure the troubles are just beginning...but they are our troubles...and we can get out of this silly townhouse...
Our move-in date is tentatively going to be next saturday....

We'll be using the next week to clean, paint...and prepare the house for our arrival...
We are both happy...and we really did get a spectacular deal on a beautiful home...

Oh...and last week Janet and I went to DC so she could receive an award for being a Star employee at her company...it's quite an honor...and I'll be sharing more photos soon...

Friday, October 3, 2008

Day 186

Make sure that if you apply here...you have rules....

Thursday, October 2, 2008

Day 185

Never Before have so many people with so little to say said so much to so few.


Wednesday, October 1, 2008

Days 183 and 184

Saturday night at the LSU game there was a jet fly-by....it was as impressive a thing as I've seen in some time...
and seeing as how we were seated in the upper deck...the soundwave shook my shirt when it blasted by...
it was awesome...

The new TV show the Mentalist is pretty good...