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6 February 2003
First let me say, dial up sucks after you get spoiled with a
broadband connection. This small room sucks too. We are
scheduled to close on the house in a couple of weeks and I think both of
us are ready to have some elbow room. With a lot of painting in
store plus a whole lot more work it will all seem worth it. Home
Depot, I hope you're ready for us. Luckily, it's not to far.
I'm also learning to say the names of all the cities, towns, hamlets,
and villages around here. Colonie, pronounced Col un E', Cohoes,
pronounced Ca HOES', Watervliet, is said Wa ter v& LEET', not like
Chevrolet, and Niskayuna is easy. Nis c& U' n&. Oh, and
don't for get our new home, Schenectady, or Sk& neck' t& dE.
(Not suck dick a dee Ray.) Don't get me started on what differentiates
the difference between cities, towns, villages, and hamlets. One
can be inside of the other and they may have the same name. Bla
bla bla... I also bought a new wallet and for the first time
it's black. I've always had brown leather wallets except for the
period of fluorescent green and orange Velcro wallets of the eighties
but this black wallet is so different. It's the new me.
Complete with the handy pull out license holder and room for the way to
many credit cards I have. Also lots of pictures, insurance cards
and my nifty organ donor card I filled out in 1985.
I promise to have some pictures of the beautiful cities of Albany and
Schenectady soon.
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7 February 2003
How could I not miss that?
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10 February 2003
Fourteen calls today disconnecting utilities in the old house,
establishing utilities in the new house along with all the other
business that needs to be taken care of when buying a house.
Everyone I talked to was as courteous as could be. Of course
technology has improved so much since I bought my first
house. Every document had to be mailed. It has become
so much easier as information flows across the internet. One of
the strange things I found out today when I called to establish
water/sewer service is there is no bill. It is included in
taxes. No wonder they're so high. Now if they only paid for
the phone, gas, power, my car payment...
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14 February 2003
I always knew duct
tape was good for everything. I saw a guy on the news putting
up plastic and duct tape to cover his whole house. I think if his
redneck ass would have just painted his house, that would have filled
90% of the cracks. I just don't think plastic is going to keep
chemicals and biological weapons out of our lungs. What percentage
of our time do we actually spend at home, awake and ready to get
prepared. You can either go on living or end up in the hospital
from some stress related disease. Lara Bush seems to think the
media is making people worry, but LARA, they are just reporting what
your husband and his administration are saying. I have still not
formed an opinion on if now is the time or if we should let the
inspectors have more time. I can see both sides but I do know if I
sit around thinking about it, I'll end up like I was after 9-11.
Mortgage process is going well and we are just thinking how we can
spend every other cent we have considering how much is going to
gasoline. It averages about $1.65 in this area but as low as $1.59
and as high as $1.75. We saw it for $1.80 in New York City the
other evening.
Happy Valentine's Day to everyone today and Happy Anniversary to us
yesterday. We decided to buy each other a house.
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14 February 2003...Later
Well today I told a lie. A stupid lie. No real reason to
tell the lie. When I did it, I said to myself, "Why am I
saying this?" I am the worse liar ever to begin with. I
wish I didn't do it and now I must ask myself, do I come clean or
not. If I do, I'll be what I hate the most, a liar, but I guess I
am already. When I was about ten or so, I think I used to lie a
lot and one day I came in the house and told my dad I found a bunch of
beer in the bushes by the street and he did not believe me. It was
at that time at ten years old I decided I would not lie anymore.
Yea a little white lie every now and then and "you look nice"
and stuff like that but liars, I despise.
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15 February 2003
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Today was spent exploring our new home
again. That is, Saratoga Springs, an expensive resort
community with a lot of very expensive old houses just north of
here where Duncan exclaimed, "Oh look, a castle" and Glen View,
a more crusty avenue where we at lunch in an old diner filled with
rednecks. I now smell like cigarette smoke but I had a so
excellent open face roast beef sandwich. Now I'm settling
down to |
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a night out. It's only getting down to minus fifteen
tonight. |
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17 February 2003
All last week and the weekend they said no snow for Albany.
Yesterday at 3PM, they decided that it was coming. The forecast
says anywhere between 12-30 inches but is leaning more to more snow
rather than less. The thing that keeps me going is hearing people
say that this winter is unusually cold and all this snow is not
normal. It's not normal, it's not normal, it's not normal...
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18 February 2003
It's amazing they can clear a foot of snow here faster than they can
clear 3 inches at home. Other than the fact there are piles of
snow higher than my Jeep in many places beside the road, who'd know we
had a foot of the stuff yesterday except for the landscapers and other
people who clear the parking lots and the streets. I also learned
about the different kinds of snow shovels today. Wooh Hooh!
And a little humiliated, a little more humble, but I
came clean, and I'm feeling better about it.
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23 February 2003
 vs. 
I must now admit something I am very ashamed of. This has been
a heavy burden on my shoulders for the past several days now.
Duncan knows about it and still accepts me for who I am. If anyone
sees me walking down the street and lowers their head so they don't have
to face me, I would understand. Maybe even a hiss from under
someone's breath would be accepted. I just hope the backlash from
this announcement is not a life long condemnation. I like a Celine
Dion song. There, I said it. And not just a little bit, but
a lot. It is a remake of one of my favorite Cyndi Lauper
songs, I Drove All Night. The way she carries it
off is amazing. I like to think it is because I heard it ten times
driving from North Carolina and back in two days last week but the fact
remains is I liked it before that. I don't know what to do except
to satisfy my evil lust.
I had to drive to North Carolina Thursday to straighten out some
banking issues that could not be solved over the phone so we can close
tomorrow on the house. Everything is set, we did the final walk
through and we close tomorrow. Then on Tuesday, drive to Raleigh;
on Wednesday, load the truck; Thursday, drive back up; and Friday,
unload it all again. Man, it'll be so nice. Maybe after that
I loose this fetish for taking baths I've developed. I bet I went
more years than I can count without taking a bath. (Yes, I took
showers.) The past couple of years I have developed a taste for
nice long hot baths but since we've been up here, with an unlimited
supply of hot water, they are becoming way to common. I haven't
pulled out the bubble bath and candles yet but hummm.....
I feel so dirty from this Celine Dion thing I might need one right
now, or maybe all this wind can blow it off me.
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