Check It Out: My days of complaining about this half-horse town I live in are numbered. I've put in my time and created a solid career foundation, now it's Paddy O'Wife's turn. She doesn't have a neural jack implanted into the back of her head like us computer geeks, so Tech Town, NY didn't yield much in the way of resume ammo. But it did for me, and now it's time I used it to help my 50% shareholder roommate.
My job is allowing me to set up a home office and work remotely full-time, so I'm outta here and headed back to Pittsburgh, PA, heretofore referred to as Steeltown or Yinzerville. You should understand the former, but most of yinz won't get the latter.
So why am I mentioning this now?
Check It Out: Paddy O'Wife and I put an offer on a house yesterday and, after very little negotiation (thank you, MBA classes), we got it! We will soon, barring any catastrophic complications, be the owners of a 4 bedroom, 2.5 bathroom cape cod style house! Other points I'm proud of and feel like writing about: 2-car garage, finished basement game room, nice yard, level entrance, brick porch, log fireplace, security system, new kitchen, and hardwood floors. In a few months, I'll be posting my nonsense from my 19' x 13' home office -- that's bigger than the living room I'm currently in in my matchbox-sized apartment!
Excited? Yes! Nervous? Uh-huh! Broke? As hell!
If you know me personally and feel slighted that you didn't get a phone call or an email with this news and had to read it here first, you should know that you're ahead of the game because I didn't make many calls and didn't send any emails at all yet. But by reading this, you are automatically in the top tier of people welcome to stay over in my guest room and drink my good booze. The non-readers will sleep in the garage and drink turpentine or, worse yet, IC Light. Ha ha, just kidding, Steeltown locals!
Hmm... that's two Check It Outs down, one to go.
Check It Out: PICTURES!
This is the place, tentatively called Pancho's Villa.
Rooms for the O'Paddymobile and my black Xterra, Trixie.
Where apple pie meets platanos maduros.
Three people can get "overboard drunk" at the same time.
Afterwards, they can stuff their nasty shirts in this chute that goes to the laundry room.
"What's this stone fire-thing?" asks the Miami native.
"What's this underground floor?" asks the Miami native.
One of the windows of my future office. Woohoo!
Today is "NASA" Day! Even the National Association of Squirrel Assassins have a day!!
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I wish you had given me more time, but luckily I have a guest list already prepared from a club in the Strip District. Several Delts have already RSVP’d, though a few have voiced their concern over what you consider “good booze”. I assured them that you spared no expense.
I’m going with a “Big Blue” theme, in honor of your employer and that awesome double sink. You will be serving PBR, Sam Adams Triple Bock, Bombay Sapphire and Johnny Walker Blue Label; you spared no expense.
By Carman on Jul 27, 2005
If you don’t lock the doors to your house…I will rob it. I’ll go straight past the hubcaps and …. wait….that house is empty. Damn! Tell me when when you move in…. Thats all i’m going to say for now.
By Gus on Jul 27, 2005
Gus, when you pass the hubcaps, be sure to give them a second look — I stole them from your collection. You can’t have them back, though. I need them to double as dinner plates because I can’t afford real plates after preparing for my housewarning party. I don’t know if you heard, but I spared no expense.
By oZ on Jul 27, 2005
Congratulations on your new home!
By Vanessa on Jul 28, 2005
God help the three people who get “overboard drunk” in my new bathroom.
By Paddy O'Wife on Aug 1, 2005