In brief...

Huh, I forgot to title my last post, so just did it now.  See below.

Briefly, the offer we submitted was countered with terms we can't accept, so we're back in limbo with the house buying/selling situation.  Bummer, truly.  I hate having to listen to my own advice, that everything happens for a reason, and if it's meant to be, it'll happen somehow.  I don't really know if that's true, but it seems to be a lot of the time, so I keep telling that to myself and whoever else it applies to.  I really hope so.

Saw a sneak preview of Knocked Up last night.  Really really liked it.  Funny, sweet, enjoyable movie.  Same stars from this director's usual stable, so if you liked Freaks and Geeks, Undeclared, 40-year-old Virgin, you'll probably like this.

That's all for now, wish us luck...

Untitled?

Well, here we go...we put in an offer on the house we really like yesterday! Contingent on the sale of our house, and we have to wait another day for an answer because one of the sellers is in Iraq. We're feeling good about the offer we made as well as our chances of selling our house. We've got a couple interested parties and a good backup if they don't come through. More details to come as things develop. Also saw another nice house that would be a good backup if the first one doesn't work out, coincidentally, with a floor plan identical to Turi and Mich's place.

Been a booming last few days around here. Family is all gone home now, but we had a great time with all our visitors. Shot some balls at the Aqua Range with Paige and Grandpa Dave, and even made some beer yesterday for next month's celebration of impending baby brother. It's bubbling away happily on the basement stairs now.

Also during my nice five-day weekend, I finally finished The Kite Runner, enjoyed the last third of it far more than the first two-thirds that took me forever to read; plowed straight through Michael Connelly's new The Overlook and really enjoyed it (although it was a pretty quick read, a bit shorter than a typical Connelly book); and finished the Burning Man book I started a long time ago, Inspired Madness, and put down when I found it a bit too Burroughs Naked Lunch oddball-like in language and style. Wow, that was quite the lengthy sentence. Oh yeah, we also started watching Volver last night. Jury's still out for me particularly since we didn't finish it yet, but it's sort of weird too.

OK, that's all for now. With any luck, next time I write we'll be in escrow.

Just testing

For some reason yesterday's post didn't come through on the Feedburner email.  Just posting something new to see if it's broken.  This is it.

Just stuff

Are you freakin' serious?

I just find it hard to believe some things despite strong evidence that they're true.

Sorry, I've been remiss in posting, especially any new Lola pictures lately aside from the cookie thing recently. And sorry for using such huge files for that one. Hopefully I'll figure out the thumbnail feature of Wordpress next time. Speaking of learning new things, I did have a major score this week and figured out how to share the printer downstairs so we can print from the wireless laptop, as well as share files between the two computers. It's really sweet.

Grandpa Dave is here (geez, I just found the photo gallery broken when I went create that link...why does this stuff keep happening?!?!?) for a visit and Madeleine and her mom should be here tomorrow. I'm lucky enough to have some time off, from 1pm tomorrow through next Tuesday. Hopefully will get some beer brewed, root beer made, and even swing a golf club a little bit at some point. Holiday weekend, woo-hoo! And speaking of fun stuff, we actually got to the movies last weekend, to see Spider Man 3. Good show, good fun, if you don't try to take it too seriously and can appreciate some of the typical Raimi goofiness. And Michael Moore's new movie looks promising.

Lola is really a firecracker these days. Her speech is to the point of having nearly normal conversations with her now, even if her statements aren't always true or realistic. She's also becoming quite the rough and tumble kid now that weather is improving and she likes to play outside so much. Scraped knees, stubbed toes, all of that is more or less commonplace around maison Tiar these days.

And, as long as I'm tossing out links willy nilly here, check out this newish online encyclopedia of all things Nevada. Really a nice site, if you find such things of interest.

And lastly, this odd blog claiming to be written by a man on the run from the law, with his adopted son. Could be fiction, could be delusion, could be a clever marketing idea for a movie or something. Found that somewhere, I thought Metafilter, but it wasn't. But in searching Metafilter for the link, I was reminded how amazingly chock full of wonderous reading that site is. It's also a massive timesuck, so proceed with caution. Also fun, Ask Metafilter, for giving or receiving (or just reading) oddball advice from the masses.

And that's all for now.

Making cookies

Lola and I decided to make cookies together one afternoon. Okay, I decided that we needed to make cookies. We sent half back to work with Marc so that we would not eat them all. [Note: Adding captions has become an all-consuming obsession for me that I have yet to get working correctly. Until I do, just hover your mouse over the photos for the caption. - Marc] [Captions now working! - Marc]

Woo-hoo!

Not only did I fix the problems I was having, but upgraded Wordpress at the same time.  Linkability and formatting is back!

We now resume...

Had a couple days of technical difficulties here. Couldn't log in to post anything but from the outside, everything looked fine. Finally sorted things out last night and disabled the offending plugin.

And now I discovered the editor of these posts is goofed up...I have to remember HTML now to link to anything or format text. Rad. Well, I wanted to link to something but my HTML is too rusty and I'm too lazy to look it up. So here's the link anyway, just a neat photo thing I saw. Hopefully I can fix things more completely later today...

http://www.chrisjordan.com/current_set2.php?id=7

La Tour

Found this random item on a counter at work (click for full size images):





So that was worth a post. Still no action on the selling of our house. Sigh.
Happy Mother's Day to all those moms out there. I think this post puts it well.

Geez, I'm really struggling for anything interesting or wonderful enough to write about, link to, or post here. Slow week. Next time.

Goings on

Happy Cinco de Mayo to one and all.   The margaritas and cerveza will commence after work today, I believe.

In neighborhood news, our long-under-construction corner Starbucks finally opened yesterday.  And there was a line in the drive-through today.  Hopefully this won't mean the demise of our friends at the Purple Bean, but if the quality of their drinks continues along the lines of our last two visits, they're in trouble.  Don't get me wrong, I love my little Purple Bean, but S'bux makes some good java and that last Americano from PB was nasty.

Not really our neighborhood, but I'm pretty sure I saw a dead body in the Eldorado parking lot yesterday on my way to work.  Police were there and there was a sheet over it so it wasn't gory or anything, just a bit unusual.  I don't think I've ever seen a corpse out in public like that before.  Haven't seen anything in the news about it.

Also of note, our wacky weather continues.  Looks like it might be back on track today, but we had snow yesterday.  I'm ready for warm weather, my facial hair is gone, let's get on with it already, 'k?

More breaking news at work: we're finally a wireless hotspot at the library!  It's been a long time coming and we're WAY behind the curve in the library world, but if you need a connection, come on down and say hello.  And what a perfect time for our old laptop to lose all ability to power up, so I guess I won't be trying out the wifi anytime soon.

OK, well, I feel like my threshold for what is interesting/significant enough to merit writing about here has lowered to an unacceptably dull level, so I'll wrap it up and try to refrain from such mundane news in the future.  With any luck, my next post will be about the selling of the house, fun times with Grandpa Dave later this month, and the move into a new (as yet unfound) house.