Pics -> http://picasaweb.google.com/tom.dietrich/OurNewHome?authkey=UYe_YPJfxRg Blindy. fucked around with this message on 02-13-2008 at 10:45 AM.
Some of you would be welcome at any time. Actually, just not Delidgamond.
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Asha'man's ass must be crazy:
quick somebody register tom-and-jens-house.com and all variants thereof
no dont
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Willias says po-ta-to, I say pa-ta-to:
whats up with the baseball bat penis
Haha, I hadn't noticed that before.
We haven't closed/moved in yet, so everything you're seeing is still the old owner's stuff, but the offer is accepted and financing has been secured, so it's as good as ours.
House prices in the UK are -insane- right now. Makes getting on the ladder very difficult, could probably only get a 1 bedroom flat here for what you paid for that over there.
I want to move to the US.
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There was much rejoicing when Mortious said this:
I want to move to the US.
Stay out.
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Mortiousing:
Very nice, pretty darned big too.House prices in the UK are -insane- right now. Makes getting on the ladder very difficult, could probably only get a 1 bedroom flat here for what you paid for that over there.
I want to move to the US.
Between the plummeting real estate values and the plummeting-er dollar, if you wait a year you'll probably be able to buy a house here with the change in your sofa.
A few pence or farthings or toppins or whatever the christ you people use. Maradon! fucked around with this message on 02-13-2008 at 07:08 PM.
Just wait till the real fun begins--interior decorating. =)
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Mortious's account was hax0red to write:
I want to move to the US.
Much of the US isn't any better.
Takin' yo woman, too.
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So quoth Blindy.:
Thanks everybody for the comments. As anyone who's bought a house will tell you, it takes a lot of time to get here, and I can't tell you what a relief it is to finally have the real goal in sight.
Congrats, Man. Revel in your new house.
Over the years, I have come up with bits of wisdom about houses that I wish to build into my own someday.
First and foremost, the toilet situation. Near the main livingspace (I.E. kitchen/dining room and living room) will be a regular "lowflo" toilet that will basically be used for pissing in, whereas near the bedroom and bathing area, there shall be an "industrial" toilet, because nobody likes to have to flush twice or three times to get those large blocks of clay that was previously your mother's best 8 bean chili down the shitty lowflo toilet.
Secondly, any area where you will logistically be consistantly carrying large bulky items or heavy items, there will be a push-down-to-turn knob instead of a regular round twist knob on said door. So, like the Laundry Room, the garage, and say a door leading from the back porch to the house. It sucks to be grilling and not have a free hand and try to open the door all by your lonesome.
Thirdly, and this is only an "if possible" type of thing, I want Geothermal heating. It's pretty simple, really. It's just a set of pipes buried about 20-25 feet in the ground away from the house on the property somewhere. At those depths, the tempurature of the ground is the AYT of the area, and you're able to dump waste-heat into it during the summer quite easily, and draw heat from it during the winter. Combine this with some simple solar cells on the roof that look like skylights and you've got (With relatively minor expense and change to the outward appearance) a pretty energy efficient home. Not to mention all the water you're saving by peeing into a lowflow toilet.
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Blindy. wrote this stupid crap:
Thanks everybody for the comments. As anyone who's bought a house will tell you, it takes a lot of time to get here, and I can't tell you what a relief it is to finally have the real goal in sight.
Twll me about it. I'm going to start looking at homes in a couple months and I am so excited!
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This one time, at Azakias camp:
Twll me about it. I'm going to start looking at homes in a couple months and I am so excited!
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nem-x posted
Holy shit ahahahahahahahaha.
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How.... Asha'man.... uughhhhhh:
quick somebody register tom-and-jens-house.com and all variants thereof
Yes, ha ha.
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