Train platform
Here’s a closer look at the train platform I hinted at in my last post. Maintenance required. Looks a little rugged now, but just imagine how beautiful and exciting it was when it was filled with old steam-powered trains and people just coming to America and anxious to get to their new lives. There were lots of really pretty architectural details as well – they just don’t make stuff like this anymore. Well, maybe they make it like this, but not like how it used to be. Great Art courtesy of the exclusive iPhone-cam, taken at the ferry/train station for the Ellis Island and Statue of Liberty tour, and part of my famous Train series.
Been a pretty nice few days. First, the biggest news: LRN1 has been accepted to Cocoa Camp! That’s an Apple thing where they invite a few college students for a week or so between Summer Term and Fall Semester. They bring them to Cupertino and give them some intensive schooling. All expenses paid. Sounds like a great time! Congrats, LRN1!
Now the other biggest news: we signed the contract for the new house this evening! That’s right, they’ve opened up the new section where our place will be and they Fedexed us a contract yesterday. It got here today, LRN4 and I signed it in about a million places, and she’ll Fedex it back tomorrow. Of course, the price went up by a few thousand dollars. What did you expect? Our real estate agent in Las Vegas tells us the market there just might be starting to turn around a bit, so it might be the perfect time to buy! But probably not.
Anyway, I’m excited to get the house building phase started. Both our real estate agent and our salesman have promised to keep us well informed of the progress, and I expect to send LRN4’s sister over there fairly often too. I’m doubtful I’ll ever see the construction in person, sadly. I was out of the country for most of the time when we last had a house built (in Virginia, of course), but I at least got to see a bit of the work being done. And LRN4 was there for the whole thing. This time, probably nothing. And that’s half the fun! Sigh.
In a fit of fitness-induced madness, LRN4 recently purchased a set of [amazon asin=B000VCDXNS&text=adjustable dumbbells]. They seem like really great quality, come in their own sturdy-looking plastic case, and are really heavy. Or not, depending on whether you want them to be. Highly recommended, both by LRN4 and several people who reviewed them. And the price was pretty good.
In other news . . . umm . . . I don’t think there is any other news. Oh yeah, LRN4 gave a bookmark for her website to a few friends recently. They’ve all given very positive reviews. One said she had her graphic designer husband look at it, and he was full of praise. Pretty impressive! I’m counting on her (free) website to make us rich one of these days. It could happen!
Not much else to report and it’s slightly past my bedtime, so I’ll leave my Loyal Readers with this shocking food violence news: bratwurst assault!
See you tomorrow.
May 19th, 2012 at 5:12 pm
Personally I can think of better things to do with bratwurst–like eat it!
May 22nd, 2012 at 7:30 am
I love that the police checked to be sure that there were really bratwurst marks on her clothes. Did they take the assault weapon back to the lab and verify the trajectory?!
When will this rash of food violence be put to an end?!