April 14, 2008

  • First of all, thanks for the advice about the roof. Its pretty much unanimous, everybody that I ask agrees that my priority should be the roof. Now to try to get somebody to give a quote. In spite of the fact that it has been leaking for quite some time, I really don't think there is any mold up there. It is a drop down ceiling complete with insulation which may have helped prevent mold. At least, that is what I'm hoping for. I'm hoping and keeping my fingers crossed that the roof can be fixed for under $5000, although I am not holding my breath. Then again..............if there is mold, I probably should be holding my breath, don't you think?

    Just when I all but gave up on my Cubs-Cards trip to St Louis next month, another guy from work said he might be interested in going. I don't know if he was serious though. He also mentioned going to New York City for a Red Sox-Yankees game 4th of July weekend. See, he is a big Yankee fan and just got back from NYC a couple of weeks ago. He wants to go again especially with this being the last year for Yankee Stadium. And, I have never been to Yankee Stadium myself. The Red Sox have always been my second favorite team, but do I dare wear my Red Sox jersey to a game in New York? Certainly there will be other Red Sox fans there. Still, I hope that I'm able to afford to go, what with the roof and all. Something tells me (and by something, I mean Yahoo)  airfare is going to be ridiculously priced that weekend. Still, to a more immediate future, I have to determine by the end of the week if I will have somebody to go with me to St Lou or else cancel the trip. I have already booked the room and don't want to pay the full cost of the room by myself. Wow, that all sounds pathetic. I would not be going by myself, Mark and 3 other guys have a room, I just don't have a partner to room up with.

    I do have some extra money coming to me though. Long live the Douche Bags of Fashion! My fantasy basketball team, the aforementioned Douche Bags of Fashion, won my fantasy basketball league championship. This will net me $80 which is after the $30 fee I paid to join before the season started. Sure, it won't pay for a roof or a trip, but it can't hurt. It was a trying season too. We had the first draft back in the first week of November. One of the guys in the league bitched about how he didn't know how to use the draft room and how he was not happy with his team and that he wanted to redraft. I was VERY opposed to a redraft, as we had already drafted a couple of days into the season. I was happy with my team too, but this guy managed to drum up support for his cause. I told the commish that although I was vehmetley  (spelling please, I fucked this one up so bad that even spell check couldn't help me) opposed to a redraft, if the majority of people wanted a redraft, than we should redraft. So we did. In the process the commish made an error and somehow I wound up with the 2nd pick in the draft. And after the first team took Kobe Bryant, that meant that I would take Lebron James! Even with him though, I started off slow, even losing back to back weeks in a blow out, which really hurt my team. Still, I managed to come all the way back to have the top seed for the playoffs. It also helped that another guy never paid and even though he finished with the best record, because he never paid he was ineligible for the playoffs. So looking back, I guess I owe my winnings to a hell of a lot of luck. That being said, most of the other guys did not pay much attention to their teams throughout the season. And while that worked in my favor, I did pay attention to my team every single day and in the end it paid off.

    Douche Bag pride!

Comments (2)

  • The "douche Bags of fashion"?  OMFG!   I'm glad they (hence you) did so well, though!

    Hey now...that wasn't nice to stick up for the guys in your comment to me.  Haha!  Well the thing is....it's unrequited.  I'm not sure how many guys like to do so and get NO|THI|NG in return....you see?

    Let me read your previous post to see what we are discussing here with your roof better.....one min.

  • Ahh, okay...I see.  I agree with the others that you need to fix it....BUT, the housing market sucks so badly right now....I just don't know.  I am in a very similiar situation to you (minus the leaky roof and mold......I do have a leaky basement, though).....I want to sell.  I need to sell.....I need to MOVE....still on Long Island, still local to where I am, but to a little bit of a smaller house in a little different neighborhood.  My neighborhood was great...still is.....except for the 30 people who moved in a year or so ago (bought the house together) and are drug dealers....and who even had a home invasion in broad daylight last year.  They are buying up every house that goes on the market in my neighborhood, and I am not impressed.  They only live 2 houses away from me.  AND bought the house across the street from theirs......and have another 50 or so people living in that house and renting it......which is freaking out all of my neighbors and making everyone want to move.

    I really....just want a little smaller house.....mine is to big for me to keep up with, and I just want a change...because changes can be fun.....don't you think?

    What I am seriously considering doing if I can swing it.....which I think I can, but I need to really sit down and talk to someone about it next week to be sure it's the right move.....is to use my equity to purchase the house that I want, and hold onto this one and rent it out.....until the house prices go back up where they were.  Buy now....where I can make a steal....and keep this one to make more money on until the housing market goes back up where it was.

    Hey if you come to NY, you and your friend soooooo are required to take a trip out to long island and visit me too, you know!

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