I'm back!!

Sorry for the sparseness of posts over the past several weeks. As you can see from the previous post, I bought a house. Err, actually, I will have bought it in a mere 360 monthly payments.

Home ownership is fun. You get to be on the phone with customer service people from Verizon and Comcast and the electric company and the water company who could give a shyt about your little slice of heaven and in fact, may be more than a little jealous. When you look at the lawn and think, "Someone needs to cut this grass," you realize that the someone in question is you. There are also lots of trips to home improvement stores. Every weekend since I closed I have been to Lowes and/or Home Depot at least once.

Sidebar... Must remember not to make eye contact with the latin men lingering on the edges of the parking lot at Home Depot. Although the atmosphere is definitely cruisy, they are cruising for work, not dick and ass. As a rule.

Other observations...

...Home security system salesmen are kinda pushy and not very cute

...The men are much more attractive in hood-adjacent transitional neighborhoods.

...The presence of a Whole Foods Market and a Harris Teeter are the hallmarks of a good neighborhood.