Just a quick one, but worth sharing, of course. I mentioned I was moving? Well, I wonder what it’d feel like to move into a new home and discover the architect you’d hired to put the place together for you turned it into an elaborate puzzle box / scavanger hunt.
Pretty cool pics there. I have to wonder, though, how hard it is to sell a place like that . . .
Can You Google, “Google” on Wikipedia?
We saw, The Incredible Hulk over the weekend. Pretty damned awesome movie.
But you already knew that, didn’t you? Alrighty. Let’s move on. We’ll come back to Dr. Banner and his, ahem, hulkish alter-ego in a bit.
We’re moving. We’re buying a house and moving out of the City.
We initially saw the house and were impressed. We went back and saw it again. Measured some stuff. Checked some things we hadn’t been 100% on previously (example: we wanted to check the specs on the electrical power to the house). We felt even better about the house. So what’s the next step?
Call the bank?
Call the lawyer?
Nope — Google it. Wiki it.
Yup, before putting in an offer on a house, we looked it up on Google and Wikipedia. Not the house itself, of course, but the town and the village. The outerlying areas.
We looked up the school district. We followed links to westchester.gov and did Google searches for different restaurants, banks, supermarkets, etc. We punched in different destinations (my folks’ house, her folks’ house) to see how long it would take to drive to each.
Is this something other folks do, or are my wife and I just super-nerds?
And, if you’re making a major financial investment, do you really want to trust wikipedia.net to guild your way?
To be fair, we’ve also spoken to several folks about our new neighborhood and what we’re hearing matches up with what the ‘net has to say. But what if it didn’t? What if they told us to run screaming like our hair was on fire. Would we? Or would we tsk tsk and wave them away. “Wikipedia says you’re wrong.”
Which brings us back to Mr. Hulk.
We saw parents on either side of the marriage this weekend — dinner with mine, lunch with hers — and talked to both about The Incredible Hulk. We told my folks and her folks that we loved the movie. Loved it, yes. Their response?
“The reviews didn’t sound so good. Probably we’ll skip it.”
Getting scary out there, folks. At least, that’s what I read on Wikipedia . . .
2008, And Where I’ve Been (and what’s been going on)
First off, Happy New Year! I figure, wherever you may be, you should have rolled over into 2008 by now, so welcome to the new year. Pull up a chair and make yourself comfortable — hopefully the show will be good.
It’s Tuesday night. We got back from our Aruban Family Vacation (AFV) about midnight Sunday night (which is to say, about 12am Monday morning, if you can dig that).
Have you been to Aruba? It’s a lovely, beautiful, picturesque island where the water is this magical kind of blue you only see on The Discovery Channel or in your dreams.
It’s also a big, damned strip mall (nothing is perfect, eh) and the “service”, and that is a term I’ll use loosely, often leaves something to be desired.
Over the course of seven days on the lovely island (really, it’s nice — just because it’s not for me doesn’t mean it’s not lovely), I had exactly one meal come “right” on the first try. One meal in seven days. That can wear on one’s patience and I assure you it did.
Still, even with that, I think overall a good time was had. It’s great to be back, though, even if it is cold and rainy.
This Is What Starts Happening Near The End
Quickly, as I’m sleepy as hell, I think I wrote ~3,583 words today, give or take. It’s a rough one, and part of the issue is that as much as I wrote, I probably deleted, slightly more. Which is not to say that we’re in the hole. What I mean to say is I probably wrote DOUBLE what I’ve got in the word count as “new”.
So it goes.
As you get nearer and nearer to the finish line, it can be difficult getting into the places one needs to get into. Is it boredom? am I tired of writing about them? No, sir or madame, I am not.
But I’m tired, and probably not making much sense. 3,583 words for today, which really means, 3,583 words which only brought me over the 40,000 word mark by four little words.
I’m going to sleep now. We have a lot ahead of us for tomorrow.
3,018 words today.
It’s two in the morning and I’m sleepy.
I am officially finished with the first “part” of the story. Gears change now, and I get to experiment with a slightly different voice for the next bit of story. I’m a drop too sleepy to start in on that, but I’m hoping I’ll have a good patch of time for writing tomorrow night.
This should be a good weekend for words, though. I have to make up for some lost time and maybe get a jump on the Thanksgiving weekend (though really, that week could be very productive for me, if I’m lucky.
Off to sleep. It is late and I am tired.