Done Deal

Well, we signed the contract to buy the new house yesterday. Was it smart? Don't know, and probably won't know for years, but I believe we made the correct decision. Now we turn to multitude of other bullshit things that are associated with the purchase of a new home. Namely, inspection, insurance, bank financing, appraisal and whatever else joy pops up over the next 6 weeks. Hopefully, there will be no major problems discovered during our home inspection Wed. We are going so far as to have the drains scoped, so I think we are going all out in our desire to have our home with as few problems as possible.

On a more fun front, Mardi Gras is a week from tomorrow. Sat, I ran into my Dad and while we were visiting he informed me that a friend of his, who had recently had open heart surgery, had been scheduled to ride the float. Since he clearly can't ride the float, Dad got me a chance to ride the float. Now, I used to ride the float back when I lived here, and I really wanted to this year. I decided not to, for a couple of reasons. First, I didn't want to spend any money for the reason above. Second, I was told that the residency requirement was 4 years, and I didn't want to fuck up my chances to get back into the Krewe and ride then. But since Dad secured permission on my behalf, fuck it, I'm going to ride.

I guess I'm also going to have to get some work done on renting the Fl house next week. Shit. That is all I want to say about that for now. Just know that I"m not happy, and not looking forward to it.

Later