Month: June 2002

have to go clear up some parking tickets (not mine) tomorrow before dropping off more paperwork…and probably signing my name 700 more times.

– The FCC in Context
– My Blog, My Outboard Brain (remember to add Boing Boing to the sidelist, eventually)
– nostalgia, not entirely mine: BBS’s discussed on MeFi
– SIRC guide to flirting

I’m using the rss feature of blogger, but I’m not entirely sure what to do next. 🙂

Maddy looking thoughtful:

so yes, now this site has hit the nadir of personal web sites with picture(s) of my cat(s).

and I need to get a digital camera. this was just borrowed for the weekend, and I’m having more fun than I can handle!

neat-o web typography guide – via the css-discuss list.

K would say that at least one form of belief (hail eris!) is missing, but I’m amused by the quiz at BeliefNet (found at the wonderchicken’s site) all the same….

my results:
1. Unitarian Universalism (100%)
2. Secular Humanism (89%)
3. Liberal Quakers (88%)
4. Neo-Pagan (87%)
5. Mainline to Liberal Christian Protestants (86%)
6. Theravada Buddhism (86%)
7. New Age (78%)
8. Mahayana Buddhism (70%)
9. Bah’ Faith (61%)
10. Nontheist (60%)
11. Reform Judaism (57%)
12. Taoism (56%)
13. Christian Science (Church of Christ, Scientist) (55%)
14. New Thought (52%)
15. Orthodox Quaker (50%)
16. Scientology (44%)
17. Jainism (41%)
18. Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (Mormons) (40%)
19. Sikhism (36%)
20. Mainline to Conservative Christian/Protestant (35%)
21. Jehovah’s Witness (33%)
22. Orthodox Judaism (30%)
23. Hinduism (29%)
24. Islam (23%)
25. Seventh Day Adventist (21%)
26. Eastern Orthodox (15%)
27. Roman Catholic (15%)

oh, and a metatalk thread reminded me to check on my domain…which it turned out was going to expire on the 6th! but we’re all good now. 🙂

I have a page full of pictures, mostly stuff that’s not quite right, to make sure that it gets checked out during the inspection, but this one is just an expression of art and happiness. here’s a fairly straightforward shot:

the 2nd walkthru went really well. I’d forgotten that the house has a dishwasher and vinyl windows. C’s folks seemed really impressed/pleased with it, and when we dropped by Brent’s, Jennifer (mom) and Dani (B’s girlfriend) got quite involved talking plants and landscaping. 🙂

then we went to the realtor’s, signed more papers and handed over the earnest money.

more coffee. (we’d stopped by the starbucks in the Lakewood safeway before heading down.) then back to Brent & Dani’s, where I promptly fell on my face on the front steps. ow, ow, and more ow. got a lovely long scratch on my glasses lens, bumped my mouth/nose, knee and elbow. very graceful, E. but a little ice and a little tylenol and I was much better. or something.

now I’m just trying to relax and plan for the next few weeks. we have a lot of packing and cleaning to do!

today we’re going to Oly with C’s parents…to look at & take pictures of the house that we’re going to sign the contract to buy. yipes. wow. and oh my god.

needless to say, it’s been an exciting, if somewhat traumatic, week. I’m really happy & nervous right now – that pessimistic side of me waiting for something terrible to happen. 🙂

the house is a 4 bedroom, 1.75 bath (2nd bath has shower but no tub) – fenced yard – carport, no garage. 2 things made it the right house…first, it’s in totally liveable condition, no need to do any major work right off (pending a full inspection, of course) – second, it’s in the exact neighborhood that I’d want to live in down there.

we had this long back & forth about whether to stay in Pierce Co. (most likely Lakewood) or to move to Olympia. I’ve been hesitant about the latter, because I don’t know the town that well, I’m concerned about commuting, etc. but this house is in a neighborhood I know, where old friends of C’s live (people I like, too!), near a park, a grocery store, a video store, bus lines – walking distance to downtown, even. (plus I hear there’s a vanpool to the college.)

so I’m happy. pictures to follow soon.