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Holy shit, we are in debt!

Posted by on 17 April 2007, 8:21 pm

So, we did it. We finally did it. This morning at 10am, we closed on our house. After scads and scads of signing and initialing paperwork, and handing over a huuuge check, we’re now both officially in debt. Eeeep!
So, we finished up around 11:30 this morning at the title company then went back to our agent’s office for a bit. After that, we stopped by the Despot of Homes for some minor supplies, and headed up to our house (after a quick lunch).

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Hooray, Nationwide!

Posted by on 16 April 2007, 11:53 am

Most of the time, when I hear testimonials from customers about insurance companies, I tend to take them with a shaker of salt. Mostly because so many ads with testimonials for other products have itty-bitty disclaimers that often indicate “Results are not typical”, and what with companies always trying to put their best foot forward. Now, Nationwide doesn’t have a bunch of celebrities on their commercials, or cute little reptilian mascots or anything like that. What they do have is service.

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Making some progress

Posted by on 9 March 2007, 5:01 pm

Even though I haven’t been devoting as much time to it as I either could or should, I’ve made some decent progress on my aggregator. Maybe it isn’t as much as it could be, but it’s enough to make me happy, and since I’m not getting paid, that’s all that matters right now, right?

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I never thought I’d be happy about debt

Posted by on 22 February 2007, 5:05 pm

So, I just got off the phone with the mortgage consultant that works with our buyer’s agent. We had filled out some info for a good faith estimate/pre-approval a few days ago, since we’re looking to move on a home slightly faster than we’d originally thought we would. I have to say, I’m stoked.

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This is supposed to be simple, right?

Posted by on 22 February 2007, 2:22 am

So, I’ve been spending more time working on coming up with my own feed aggregator. I’ve learned some pretty interesting things so far, as well as just how FUBAR RSS and Atom happen to be. You’d think that this would all be somewhat simple, and in an ideal world, it probably would. This is the real world though, not an ideal one.

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Putting my money where my mouth is

Posted by on 14 February 2007, 1:05 pm

So, having complained about console feed readers, I’ve decided to put up or shut up. Or put my moneycode where my mouth is. A few months before I wrote the last article, I’d started playing a little bit with ruby-feedparser. Then I promptly forgot about it, as other more pressing matters came up.

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Package Tracking Sucks

Posted by on 9 February 2007, 11:03 am

All the major package carriers, even the USPS, offers some form of package tracking. They all work slightly differently, and all have their plusses and minuses, but they all suck. Why? It doesn’t have to be that way, if only they’d make an effort to provide more visibility into routing information that most of them already have.

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We have a date! (and location!)

Posted by on 31 January 2007, 12:01 am

Ok, I suppose it’s now official. Tonight we went to sign the contract and put down a deposit on the ceremony/reception site. So we’ve now officially locked-in a date for the wedding. It’s a little earlier than we were originally planning, but I think it will work out well nonetheless.

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Major Theme Change

Posted by on 30 January 2007, 3:12 pm

The few people who read this blog probably noticed a major appearance change late this weekend. I finally decided to get around to changing the theme used, as while the default Kubrick theme shipped with WordPress was nice, it’s the default, and so it’s so…default. True, changing the colors to that puky green was a way to differentiate it, but even I had trouble keeping track of when I was quickly glancing at my own blog versus someone else’s where they’d been too lazy to change the theme.

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Wedding Planning is Hard…

Posted by on 6 January 2007, 12:43 am

… let’s go drinking!

I was hoping to avoid getting mired in the details myself with the planning of our wedding. At least, that was the plan when we initially discussed not planning until after the holidays. I had these visions of sitting back, being blissfully unaware of all the legwork, details, dealing with weeding out selections for food, venue, etc. I had thought that I could stay detached and just give my final consent on whatever decisions had been made, as while I can deal with most kinds of stress, this personal stuff really gets me in my gut.

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