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Hung some artwork on the wall. Got the garage cleared out enough to park the RAV4 in it. Learned we are not going to make back everything we put into the house. Not even close. And even $525K is probably aspirational at this point. Looking at probably something closer $515K. Assuming we can get any interest.
But we think it's important to get what cash we can out of it now, given the risk of greater uncertainty and instability in the months to come. We need to break ground in the spring.
Tautology time:
It is what it is.
The beat goes on...
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09:52 Friday, 10 October 2025
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The photo in the preceding post was from yesterday morning in the early morning twilight. Sun isn't even hitting the far hills, the illumination is the full moon and sky glow.
Speaking of the far hills, Kottke linked to a cool web site.
Also, it's getting seasonably cool here.
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It's been beautiful here. Crisp fall days. The air so so clear, it's amazing.
The pod was collected yesterday. I'm still organizing the garage. I need to get to Home Depot for some "dimensional lumber" (1x12 boards) to make some more shelves. I meant to go on Tuesday, but rain was forecast and I didn't want to be driving home in the rain with boards in the bed.
It didn't rain.
I won't go this weekend, because I'd rather not deal with the weekend madness. So maybe Monday.
I checked the power cord under the couch and, sure enough, it was getting pinched. So I had to figure out how to get the cord under the section frames. The individual sections are heavy and awkward to grasp. You can't just push them up from the bottom.
Fortunately, what remain of my failing synapses fired enough to flicker a lightbulb over my head. I have one, well, several actually, of those pry-bar tools. I don't recall which particular model or manufacturer this one is, but it has this curved bend in it so you can step on it and lift something up an inch or two, like a sheet of drywall or something. Off to the garage!
Had to get Mitzi to step on it while I was on the floor trying to get the plug under the frames. Took a while, but we got it done. The "hook" portion of the velcro at the bottom of the backs abraded the skin on my arms until it bled. I'd been wearing a sweatshirt, but took it off because doing all that crawling around had me working up a sweat. Another fun feature of aging is thinning skin.
Yay.
I've been enjoying the new season of Slow Horses. I like how this season doesn't have River Cartwright at the center of things. At least not yet anyway.
I had been enjoying The Morning Show, but wow, there's just too much drama, and no relief. I get enough of that in real life.
Slow Horses is perhaps darker, but it's funnier. It's easier to see it as farce. TMS seems like it wants to be more realistic. It's harder to have some emotional distance, and I'm really looking for distraction rather than distress.
This season of Only Murders seems to be the weakest of the series so far. I think it's played out. I'm disappointed because I love the characters.
Regarding the sale of our Florida house (not, "home"), we're going to plug some numbers into a spreadsheet and see just how much we have invested in the place, and then see how low we can go on the price and not be genuinely losing money. I'm going to insist we include the interest I've paid on the mortgage. I suspect we're already near that number.
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