Friday, May 28, 2010

Approved (a bit too late)

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Well, it's not really too late, it seems we are going to benefit from this after all, I'll explain in a second. On K's birthday ...
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Hardcover Books Dust Covers -- A Question for Book Lovers

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Book people out there, what in the world do you do with your dust paper covers for hardcover books? For those children's books or coffee...
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Thursday, May 27, 2010

Life 10 X Academic Pursuits 0

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It's slightly unnerving to be "talking" (or blogging) to myself, but I've seen fewer comments in other people's blogs ...
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Cars, or, the (ever) Shining Lights

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Long story. Hopefully interesting. ;-) We're not car people. Or, maybe I should say that K is not a "car guy." Our cars are me...
Wednesday, May 26, 2010

Birthday Smorgasbord

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K thought of the post's title and told me to write it after we went (quite late at night! 9:30) to eat here [site with sound] with the ...
Tuesday, May 25, 2010

Hacking the Academy -- 3 more days to contribute

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Laura at 11D twitted & blogged about this intriguing project today -- a book to be "crowdsourced" in one week. The idea is ...

Life Repeating Itself

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I've been thinking a lot about the past three years, the period we've lived in this house. I want to blog some about it and I really...

We've got a new address

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After a last-minute trip to Virginia we finally have a new address. We'll be moving in on the 4th. Downsizing is an understatement for w...
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Friday, May 21, 2010

The "Do-It-Yourselvers"

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Well, as Dooce would say it, our family is "the valedictorian of the do-it-yourself," so we had to go and "do-it-ourselves...
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Thursday, May 20, 2010

Hiring Movers, Looking for Rentals

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Time is running out and we're exploring our options. The "flexbox" (pod-like boxes) option seems to be too pricey right now, s...
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Tuesday, May 18, 2010

My "Baby" Will Need to Wear Glasses!

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Not only that, but the vision on his left eye is so bad (3.5 both astigmatism and nearsightedness) that he may need to wear an eye-patch for...
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Town Code Inspection -- Check!

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We passed the town's inspection today, so we're all set to sell the house. We're very relieved, too bad it cost us 800 bucks (10...
Monday, May 17, 2010

I Know Where I Come from, But I Don't Know Where I'm Going

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I'm sure this (or something like it) must be an existing song title, too bad I don't know the song. (Yeah, pathetic joke, I know). A...
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Sunday, May 16, 2010

First Camping Trip

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Yeah, the first and also the last here in Pennsylvania. We spent the weekend at this State Park, with six other families from church and it...
Thursday, May 13, 2010

On the perspective of not breaking even or worse

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The answers are beginning to trickle in and the first one is not very good. The house appraised only 2K over asking price. Not the 13K more ...
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Multilingual Living - Awesome Website for Multi-lingual Families

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Years ago I was a columnist for the Bilingual/Bicultural Family Network for several months at the kind invitation of founder/editor Corey H...
Tuesday, May 11, 2010

Still Up in the Air

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Things haven't changed a bit since I last updated on our house sale situation . The appraisal was a week ago, but no word from the bank ...
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Friday, May 07, 2010

A Simple (Yet Complex) Wish

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A while back when I talked to my friend Zee and read some of her posts about photography , I sadly realized that we don't have a ...
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Thursday, May 06, 2010

Inspection and Appraisal

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Right now we're anxiously awaiting the results of the appraisal. You may recall that the buyers offered 13K more than asking price so th...

Monkey Wrench? or Opportunity?

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How would you feel if this late in the game #2 contacted you out of the blue? We don't think it's an alternative worth discarding w...
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