House Hunting: More 70’s
Around these parts, most land not being actively worked by farmers has been snatched up by developers, and subdivisions go up where the cattle used to roam. This has led to a lot of zero-lot houses being stacked on top of one another, and the feeding of the vampire squids known as Texas Home Owner [...]
House Hunting: Brady Bunch House
1614 Fairway Circle, Garland, TX 75043
Ok, keep in mind that I love 70’s architecture. I do. I don’t know why. But this house: this screams 70’s Brady Bunch house. Love that!
The pictures on this listing suggest that the house is in need of some basic updating, but it really doesn’t look too bad. In fact, [...]
House Hunting: The prologue
I have a great house. I like my neighbors. I love the parks and ponds and ducks and fish. The schools are the best in the area. But I have an HOA. For those of you that don’t live in a state where members of the state government own legal entities that confiscate property for [...]
A Week in Windy City
I just got back from a fabulous week in Chicago spent with a friend of more years than either of us will admit in public, her charming husband and their newest addition; the best behaved baby in the universe. (Also, just about the cutest thing in diapers. And he has that new baby smell. Altogether, [...]
I will not wear Blizzard’s burqa
Regarding Blizzard’s decision to force it’s 8 million users to use their real names in a public forum to get tech support or join in any discussions, Blizzard CEO Bobby Kotick said in an interview that there would be no pushback from users, because nobody expected privacy these days anyway. (At the time I write, [...]
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