HGR says that I shouldn’t feel bad about asking for and receiving help from my parents, notwithstanding their habit of bringing it up as leverage against me, which he says is “really shitty.” (It’s mostly Dad who does this.) He says parents help their kids all the time and it’s normal. More fundamen...
So, as I mentioned, my parents got an air fryer for Thanksgiving and it’s basically the star of the household. There were two reasons for the purchase. First, Mom’s co-workers waxed eloquent about how it was sooo good. Second, the new condo has a gas stove, which is unfortunate because research indi...
Thanksgiving time! (I'm still at my parents’ house. Despite getting the condo measured for carpet on November 6 and choosing carpets that were in stock, the soonest date for installation was December 8. I’ve hired movers for the end of that week, i.e., December 11. On the bright side, that means I'm...
Went up to my old apartment, new key in hand, and discovered that the locks had been changed again. At this point I ain’t even mad. It’s just a comedy of errors. I went to ask the office lady to let me into my apartment and she was very apologetic. She said that some second-floor apartments had been...
Today was a holiday (a fake holiday, as Dante would put it), but I didn’t realize until after lunch. My fault for not checking my work email sooner. HQ sends out a daily news bulletin at 9 am, which I do not read, but lack of a bulletin means it’s a day off. At around 2 pm, the power went out. Unfor...
WE DID IT WE CLOSED THE DEAL WE HAVE A HOME At 10 am, Dell met us at the condo for the final walkthrough. It was uneventful. That’s a good thing. The seller left us a couple of floor lamps, her toaster oven, and her microwave, which was nice of her. Shortly after we left, I got a suspicious text fr...
hard to believe all of this is the same month. it feels like it's been several months packed into one. but hey, here we are, we made it to the end our offer on a condo was accepted!!! took a walk in the cool after a rain. heard the geese honking as they fly south. they make quite a racket, but it’s...
One of the irritating features of being at my parents’ house is that they’re way out in hicksville with no public transport, so I have to rely on them for anything I want. The nearest pokestop is a 20-minute round trip away. That’s not a problem, it’s a nice daily walk, but it’s symptomatic of how r...
Conversations with Dad are like a roguelike. They’re procedurally generated, so you get a different map every time, but set pieces are programmed to show up—the life insurance policy, the credit cards, the Fidelity fund managers, the fact that he was working so hard on 9/11 he didn’t know what had h...
This condo sat on the market for 60+ days before we made an offer, so I was lowkey worried the inspection would reveal major issues that had scared off previous buyers. Thankfully, nothing too bad popped up. The garbage disposal needs fixing, and a smoke detector needs to be replaced. The seal on a ...
Tomorrow’s the day of the home inspection. The conversation about the home inspection was rather weird. Initially, Dell explained that we didn’t need to be present during the home inspection, because the inspector would send us a detailed report of his findings. Okay, I thought, we won’t go. But whe...
A big day: We set out at 8 am to meet Dell for a tour of six condos. (We had requested to see seven, but one of them got bought. The housing market is hot.)Razorback Ridge #1-3: Our first stop was a series of three condos in the same apartment complex. All were third-floor condos with skylights and ...
