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My Almost-daily Journal |
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| About I love trying out new things, especially when it comes to internet technology. I never really kept a journal, but it's something that I've always wanted to do. Now, everybody will get a chance to look inside my twisted, and somewhat-warped mind.
I've also subscribed to Audio Blog, so a few times a week, I'll leave actual voice blogs. Very cool!XML Newsfeed Previous Posts
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Tuesday, May 13, 2003
Prepping the House to Sell I'm beat! Prepping a house for viewing by a potential buyer is hard. Shit just piles up over the years. My new motto is that if something isn't used for a year, it must pass the "will I use it next year" rule. If it doesn't, it's trash. Case in point: five old rims and tires from my Jeep. I was saving these... for what, I don't know. Perhaps I had visions of buying a beater Jeep and fixing it up. Who am I kidding? I don't even have time to keep my own Jeep running, let alone starting another project Jeep. Ebay those suckers!? Shit. At most I'd get $20/wheel. Is it worth the $100 to go to a tire store, take the tires off, pay their recycling fee of $3/tire, take the wheels to a shipper, buy five wheel boxes and ship them out? Heavens no! Who am I kidding? The wheels/tires were trash-bound. Free Shit Case Study I could probably gather up a bushel of dried up dog turds, put them on my curb in a box, and throw up a label that says, "Free shit. Please Take Me!", and the box would be gone in a few hours. I put the wheels out on my curb, stapled a sign that said, "Free" on my tree, and waited. The wheels were gone in 12 minutes! The garbage picker that picked them up was a career-picker. He was driving around his '77 Nova toting a trailer. I wonder if he's going to put the Jeep wheels on his Nova? Pretty cool if he did. House Cleaning Fetish I pretty much concentrated on the outside of the house today, and I'll do the interior tomorrow. The patio took me over an hour to summerize. I swept up a gross of roofing nails and a few miscellaneous roofing tiles, and removed a winter's worth of fall leaves. The patio looks really inviting. I can't wait to hand up some baskets. I then wallowed to the front and finished off edging and pruning trees and bushes. I'm still not done. The front is beginning to look semi-presentable. It actually saddens me that I want to sell the house. I then hit the front and back lawns with liquid Ortho Weed Killer, to abort any dandelion fetuses that might be past conception. I followed up with a new thing for me: Liquid Iron! I read somewhere that iron makes your lawn a deeper green. I figure I'd give it a shot and see what happens. I then hit the dreaded "side of the garage", where I used to have a nice strawberry patch. Strawberries come out in June, but this year, my lazy neighbor's crabgrass got legs and found some fertile soil on the other side of his fence. I hate crabgrass! Have you ever seen crabgrass roots? They're a heinous organic white and they don't really shoot straight down-- they like to travel sideways. Whenever I pull crabgrass, I'm always thinking that I'm creating crabgrass abortions since I dig DEEP for those bastards. And why the hell don't Junebug larve eat crabgrass instead of Kentucky Bluegrass? There's a shitload of crabgrass on the side of my garage. The Junebugs could go to town with that salad bar. I'd almost be willing to engineer a Junebug that only eats crabgrass roots... almost... since I hate Junebugs. Finally, I hit the driveway with the hose, and cleared out all the cracks from decades worth of mud, dirt and cigarette butts. It's looking really nice now. Sidenote: Josh finally cleaned up his aquarium supplies (required prompting with a note) and made his junk look a little tidier. He even threw away some of his saltwater aquarium seaweed that was sitting in a bucket since 1997. I've grown calloused to living with a human that is the antithesis of "tidy". I better not get started, as I could write a thesis about the lifestyle my resident "feces manufacturing plant- nothing more, nothing less". He's a good guy, though: low emotional maintenance and low house traffic. Sidenote #2: Too bad Josh doesn't buy this house. It would save all of us a plethora of hassle and headache. It would make life easier on everybody! Coolest thing is that I could pay HIM rent, while Danielle and I looked for a house. He wouldn't have to find a new place and move his Tomorrow: The interior. posted by Dino at 10:41 PM (permanent link) |