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Here’s the finished place in Las Vegas!  A whole lot of work has been done since that last picture.  Of course, it’s been a few weeks, so that makes at least a little bit of sense.  I think the place looks real nice.  Check out that fancy boulder there under the tree and the beautiful fake dry stream bed.  Cost us a couple hundred bucks.  Great Art courtesy of Colin the House Sales Guy and part of my famous Las Vegas series.

Getting tired of seeing pictures of my new house yet?  Well, have no fear.  I’m getting ready to add my new famous Cruise series.  Watch this space!

That’s right, LRN4 and I are back from our east coast cruise.  We got home last Friday.  We had a great time!  All the ports were beautiful and interesting (two in Maine and two in Canada), the food was excellent, the service was outstanding, and a great time was had by all.  Interestingly, we were some of the youngest people on the ship.  They told us at one point that the previous week’s cruise (to Bermuda, not Maine/Canada) had about 500 children under 18 out of the 2450 or so passengers.  Our cruise had about a dozen.  That first week after school starts is definitely the time to take a vacation.  We’ll have to do that every year.

A couple more cruise details: we were warned that we were sailing right into the remnants of a hurricane.  Rain was predicted at every port and at sea.  It didn’t quite work out that way, though.  It apparently rained the day before we came into all four ports, but three of the four place were sunny, warm, and beautiful.  The other was cloudy, warm, dry, and beautiful.  The sea was like glass the whole trip.  We only felt the ship move a couple of times, and then you had to be paying attention to notice it.  It was the most perfect cruise weather-wise and sea-wise we’ve ever been on.  So no hurricane.

Things were just fine here when we got back.  I went to work today and found a reasonable amount of work built up during the six days I was away.  I should be caught up again by tomorrow or Wednesday.  Things are great!

They’re about to get a little bit worse, a little bit better, a whole lot better, and then great, though.  LRN4 is leaving for Las Vegas tomorrow (the worse part), where she’ll buy the house (the better part), paint all of some of the interior walls (the whole lot better part, seeing as how I’ll be here while the painting is going on there), and then come home (the great part) after nine days away.  We got final approval of the loan this afternoon, had a huge pile of money wired to the mortgage company, and are now just waiting for LRN4 to sign (for both of us – she’s done that before and it was a WHOLE LOT of signing) on the many dotted lines.  Then we’ll have three homes!  That ought to be plenty for anybody, don’t you think?

Okay, that’s it for today.  I’ll leave my Loyal Readers with this shocking food violence news: avocado thief!

See you tomorrow.

Here’s yet another picture of the new house in Las Vegas.  Now featuring stucco!  It’s kind of amazing how quickly it’s coming together.  Low-resolution Great Art courtesy of Colin the House Salesman and part of my famous Las Vegas series.

Speaking of the house, we’re scheduled to walk through it on the 19th of September and then pick up the keys on the 24th.  That’s less than a month from now!  There’s still a lot of work to do, but I’m starting to believe they’re going to make it on time.

LRN4 is planning to be there for all the fun.  Sadly, I’ll be here working.  I really want to see the place.  On the other hand, she’s planning to paint the whole interior in the first couple of days after she picks up the keys.  So I’ll just have to enjoy it from afar and wish her all the best as she turns herself into a painting machine.  Easier to do it without either our furniture there and without me there, from everything I’ve heard.

We had a great visit with LRN1 and LRN2 the past couple of weeks.  They’re both looking and doing very well indeed.  They went hom eon Friday and I miss them already.

However, in order to try to alleviate our sadness, LRN3 and LRN15 are coming this Wednesday!  Or maybe Thursday.  They’ll be here through the weekend, after which we celebrate Labor Day quietly at home.  Then I work two days and we go on our East Coast cruise.  Then we get home and LRN4 leaves for Las Vegas just a couple of days later.  Busy few weeks.

But until then, I’ll be working, eating, and sleeping.  And loving it.

LRN4 has been busy with the Groupon folks lately.  She got us a stay at a nice Bed & Breakfast in Bensalem in October.  Sounds like fun!  She also got me a shiny new [amazon asin=B006LQHPAK&text=iPhone-controlled helicopter]!  It should be here in a couple of weeks!  It’s no [amazon asin=B007HZLLOK&text=Parrot], but I’m excited to try it out.  I’ll let you know what I think.

And I’ll leave my Loyal Readers with this shocking food violence news: hijacked forklift sandwich theft!

See you tomorrow.

Here’s the first peek at the inside of our new house in Las Vegas!  The view is through the front door and shows the front door, “great” room (I’m not sure what’s so great about it, but we’ll see), dining room, back door, and backyard wall.  Lots of progress.  We’re supposed to be about six weeks away from owning it.  I’m hoping that green sticker on the window there isn’t a notice telling the builder to tear the whole thing down and start over.  Astute observers will notice the chicken wire coating on the outside.  That’s a sure sign that stucco is just around the corner.  Not to mention the scaffolding there in the foreground.  Great Art courtesy of Jud the Real Estate Guy and part of my famous Las Vegas series.

Lots going on.  LRN2 is here!  He got here Saturday afternoon.  We’re having a nice visit.  He and LRN4 are heading to Longwood Gardens tomorrow, going to the local Grange Fair on Wednesday, and hanging around by the pool on Thursday.  Since I’m off on Friday, we’re all going to see the world-famous Hessian Barracks and possibly Pennsbury Manor that day.  On Saturday, LRN2 is off to visit LRN3 and LRN15 for a few days.

LRN1, in the meantime, is at Cocoa Camp.  I’m just glad he has a chance to go to camp this summer.  He got there last night and is staying through Saturday.  Then he’s going to LRN5’s house for a brief visit and coming here on Monday evening.  LRN2 gets back on Tuesday, so there will be a bit of an overlap.  Then they both head back to school on Friday the 24th.  Boo hoo!  That’ll have to be enough for a while.

LRN4 and I will be all alone from Saturday morning through Monday evening.  Not that that’s a bad thing either.

Pretty much everything else is going along as usual.  Working, sleeping, and eating.  Lying around a bit too.  I can’t complain.

We went to the pool/jacuzzi this evening.  Always a relaxing thing.  The pool water here is nice and warm – just like I had hoped it would be in my own personal pool in Lardville.  Which it never was.  Well, it was usually comfortable for about a week or two in August.  I imagine it feels pretty good right about now, in fact.  Sigh.

We’ve had a bit more trouble with lightning.  As my astute Loyal Readers will recall, a lightning strike did very heavy damage a few weeks ago to one of the buildings in our complex here.  I’ll have to post a picture.  Anyway, compounding that disaster, another lightning strike appears to have killed an old router I was using as an internet switch, an old switch I was using as an internet switch, and the ethernet port on my beloved Apple TV.  Yikes!  I use another old router to replace one of the switches and had to buy a [amazon asin=B004TLIVB6&text=new switch] to replace the other.  It’s a pretty decent (and pretty cheap!) Linksys/Cisco.  Sleek!  Highly recommended.  Buy it through my link!  Do it now!  Do it!  You will obey me.

And that’s about it for today.  I’ll leave my Loyal Readers with this shocking food violence news:  cupcake assault!

See you tomorrow.

Here’s yet another view of the new house.  This time with windows!  Great Art courtesy of Colin the House Salesman and part of my famous Las Vegas series.

Had a fairly relaxing weekend.  Can’t really think of anything specific that happened.  Well there was . . . no, wait, never mind.  There wasn’t anything.  Kind of how weekends should be.

Back to work today.  Worked pretty hard and got quite a bit done.  And there were . . . wait for it . . . no meetings.  None.  I think it’s a first for me.  I hardly knew what to do.  But I figured it out.

Am I the only person in the world with absolutely no interest in the Olympics?  Especially the way NBC does them, of course.  Why does anyone even bother trying to watch that train wreck?

And that’s about it for tonight.  I’ll leave my Loyal Readers with this exciting, very rare toilet news: The Toilet in the Rye!

See you tomorrow.

Here’s a much better view of our new house.  A place for everything and everything in its place.  Plus, a complementary pile of rocks!  I think that may be the landscaping.  LRN4 assures me it’s going to be at least slightly more picturesque.  Great Art courtesy of Jud the Real Estate Guy and part of my famous Las Vegas series.

Plenty going on.  Spent the weekend in Park City, Utah, as previously discussed.  We had a very nice time, but it was a bit tiring.  I slept a bit on the airplane in both directions, though, and am feeling fine.  Air travel was as glamorous as usual.  But it was good visiting with family.

We rented a new Ford Explorer.  I really enjoyed it!  I like my current Flex even better, but the Explorer was pleasant to drive and had some nice features.  Including a backup camera with a nice, big display in the middle of the dashboard.  And a bunch of other things.  Sadly, the back seat legroom was totally inadequate.  I have no idea why they did that.

By far, the best part of the weekend for me was hanging out with LRN1 and LRN2.  They’re looking and doing great!  They’ll both be here in August, which I’m really looking forward to.

Let’s see, what else is going on?  My manager informed me on Tuesday that he has approved me to work overtime.  Not that I asked him if I could work overtime.  Not that I wanted to work overtime.  But I took the hint and worked some overtime.  After giving them the requisite five free hours, it turned out that I didn’t make all that much money at it.  No fun.  But I did get a lot of things done.

Nothing else interesting to tell, so I’ll leave my Loyal Readers with this shocking food violence news: watercress-thieving gangs!

See you on Monday.