Muhahahaahahahaa. You may have missed this because you're not awesome enough to live in MI and hang out with me.
Monthly Archives: June 2007
You have new Picture Mail!
You have new Picture Mail!
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There's a little for everyone in this one. Please read? :)
Thanks to
Also it is important to note that the party at my house on Saturday is not my official "house warming" party but mostly a venue for the amusingly named annual event "strippers and dirty magazines" which is not as illicit as it sounds, I promise.
Actual housewarming party plans will exist in August or so. We will be actually moved in by then. It would be earlier but some people require at least 2 weeks notice, as well as my ailing grandma who cannot travel out to Detroit will be in town back home, and we need to go visit her, and that's in late July / early August. All the timing for that is up in the air but it will actually likely be really close to our first anniversary as well. Yay? 🙂
If you will be in attendance THIS SATURDAY, and seek to sit somewhere other than my back step, crosslegged on my porch, or the grass, you are advised to bring a chair. We have 4 with our patio table. We account for two of them.
Utilities ordered to be changed: Check. Power/Gas/POTS Telephone/Cable TV and (temporary) Cable Modem will be ready Friday.
Appliances ordered: Will arrive Saturday, Check. Ever bought a stove and refrigerator from the parking lot of a random bank?* I now have. Sprint PCS EVDO and The Home Depot combined make it possible!
Insurance purchased: Check. Muhaha. Thanks
Loan paperwork and arrangements finalized: Check
Financial instrument to reimburse previous owner for overpaid property tax: Will be acquired before closing.
Less than 36 hours until I drop more money than I've ever spent in my life on anything. Yikes.
I filed an ASR for our A Links today.
I gave a rural school district more bandwidth than I thought was possible in their neck of the woods today.
I saw fireworks.
Something something something south central L.A.
so I say it was a good day.
* I was making a pit stop cause my car was being a bitch and I happened to pull into a flagstar bank lot.
Less Than 36 Hours Left
Less Than 36 Hours Left
Originally uploaded by Paul Timmins.
The white thing in the edge of the frame is the back of my unharmed van
The white thing in the edge of the frame is the back of my unharmed van
Originally uploaded by Paul Timmins.
See the photoset. 5 cars. Nobody appeared to need an ambulance. At least 3 were a total loss.
This happened 10 feet behind my parked van, which was completely untouched.
Protected:
http://www.timmins2008.com/
We have a proper website now. Remember, vote for Paul Timmins in all unopposed offices, or where you find all candidate choices unpalatable.
Mad props to Thane for having a sense of humor about our industry enough to send this. 🙂
"Socialized Medicine" – Better red than dead.
So I watched Sicko (I don't usually acquire movies without paying for them but I plan on getting it on DVD. It comes out the day I close on my house so there's absolutely NO WAY I will end up seeing it in theaters because I'll be busy moving and my money will be focused elsewhere too)
It just sorta angered me. It's stunning that all these other nations are doing better than us in universal health care. It's infuriating. I've heard plenty of right wing nonsense where they talk about how bad they have it in other countries. Well, guess what, in other countries if you *need* private doctors, you can pay for them. If you can't pay, or don't mind getting the same treatment as everyone else, go to the normal doctors. Anything is better than this shithole where becky gets diagnosed with diabetes shortly after she gets on my insurance, and now they're starting to try to catch her in a preexisting condition clause. And where we get all sorts of bills from all sorts of companies, and I never know what I'm supposed to pay, and by when. Half of it shows up as "past due" the minute I get it, because the procedure was 2 months ago and insurance just paid out, etc. It's all bullshit and what we have isn't working.
And so of course, after watching that, I ended up going to the hospital for some long overdue x-rays on my foot. It's not broken, just sprained. I may have to see a podiatrist. But it's not broken. Yay! I'm sure I'm gonna get a $500 bill because an ER doctors assistant told me to take over the counter painkillers and rest my feet as much as I can, and if it doesn't go away, see another doctor. Fucking broken.
Also, for those who haven't seen it (NSFW, if your work is cranky about videos depicting drug use and guitar playing involving puppets) Kermit does a cover of "hurt".
We close on the house June 29 in the morning.