Our agent was a cool dude. It was the sellers that were always out of their mind. The lady who sold us our house hired a junk hauler to clean the attic. He had an accident and fell through the ceiling. No big. He said he’d cover the cost of repair. She didn’t want to do any of the work to make it happen, though. She said we needed to arrange the repair.

Insanity. Only in the market we’ve been in would this kind of thing be acceptable. But we’d put offers in on about 15 different houses. All of them got outbid. Not only was this one the least expensive, it’s also one of the better built ones (fully brick clad, for starters). It was our first offer to be taken. We were exhausted with the process and ready to move. So I called the handyman and arranged the repair.

And then I called the junk hauler who said he’d cover the cost of repair. And when I told him the damage was $350, he RENEGGED. Said that was too steep. Couldn’t we find someone cheaper? He will have lost money on this job. Blah blah blah. I told him look, I don’t care about 350 bucks. And if he didn’t want to pay, then whatever, I have nothing in writing. But the house had to be inspected after that and ofc it shows in the report and so that was a shitty thing for him to do. And I hung up the phone.

4 weeks later, I got a check in the mail for $300. Even in making it right, the bastard cheaped out on me.

I hope this is it. I love my house. It needs love here and there. It’s old, but it’s got great bones. Plus, it’s in a really nice area close to a lot of stuff. I do NOT want to deal with this bullshit for at least another 30 years.

No, no, no! It’s rules for thee. None for me.

I think I’d get fired if I walked into the office with Debian installed on my work laptop.

Tempting…

The disappearance of defined benefit retirement plans is yet another way those on top are boning us, and it is NOT being talked about enough.

I’ma say it: Spinning disks are still a good choice for gaming. I wouldn’t run my OS off one, but I would and do install my games library on one.

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• Tom Crews,
• Tom Cruz, and
• Tom “Chevy” Cruze

Is evolution a joke? Everything turns to crab.

Most of the time, the more you say you hate or are not x, the more you actually are x.

Or as Ron White put it…

I have imagined that ever since the Reddit emigration hype ended and things settled down a bit here that the vast majority of world and shit users are mostly lurkers and not terribly vocal, as is the case on a lot of other platforms.

Nosey Clown Posse. They’re an ICP cover band that replaces the lyrics with barking.

One of my colleagues is a British man who just gained his US citizenship in 2021. He’s been here since 2007 on a marriage visa. And prior to that, he has described the immigration process as “arduous.”

And getting married is apparently the easy way to get in.

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You’re asking them to think. That’s your first mistake.

When I fly, I fly from Oklahoma City. Getting through OKC is a dream. Hardly anyone flies out of here. Tix are usually cheaper flying from DFW. In my experience, you have to leave really early, maybe get a motel room, and it costs at least another $70 worth of gas to get there. It’s so much extra cost and inconvenience. It’s actually been cheaper overall for my wife and I to fly from OKC since we live here.

It’s like 30-45 minutes getting from your car to your boarding area. Getting through TSA is always pretty quick and easy. I can’t imagine the place is solvent.

I have a '97 Honda Prelude Type SH. For the 5th generation, only about 60,000 USDM Preludes were made. The Type SH was more expensive. There was also no automatic option for the Type SH, and since manuals were already dying in the 90s, I’d guess that they didn’t even sell more than a few thousand of them.

It’s a little rough. One of these days, I’m gonna dump a few thousand bucks into it and make it beautiful. But we’re working on our house and some other things first. Someone put a bunch of those bluish LEDs all over the thing. I deconverted it back to soft white halogens.

Did you know mathematicians and programmers often confuse Christmas with Halloween? That’s because DEC 25 is also OCT 31.

As an Okie and a Linux user, I feel this.

Can’t lose something I never had to start with

Here’s something I learned from the 2005 feature film “Lord of War” starring Nicholas Cage:

That flag is now Dutch.