Aerial view of house

Here's a satellite veiw of the house we're buying. We stopped at the house today after church and met the sellers who were very willing to show us around a bit and tell us more about the home. Tuesday afternoon is the inspection and both Audry and I will be there going around with the inspector to learn all we can about the various mechanical systems and general condition of the house. We don't anticipate any problems but the inspection is ordered by the mortgage lender before they will issue the financing. Plus, it would be really stupid not to get an inspection.

JOB!

Well, the heading says it all, I got the job we wanted with Union County. What a day! Soon I'll be roaming the countryside collecting information about houses, mostly new ones initially, for the tax assessment division of the tax administration department. Kind of a mouthful, but you wanted to know because here you are reading about it. I'll have a car to use, I think it's a Ferrari, and I'll use it to drive back and forth to work. 90% of my time will be spent in the field, in new home developments mostly, and the rest will be in the office drinking coffee.

Not really, the Ferrari is equipped with a European double boiler espresso machine. Self-cleaning.

Anyway, now we'll actually be able to afford the house we just contracted to buy, and Audry can rest peacefully again at night knowing I have a job and that I'm not sitting around all day long talking to our lizard and catching dust in the sunbeams.

Poor little guy. He'll soon be very lonely.

First Blah

You'd think with my interest in writing that I'd have started a blog a long time ago, but what's kept me from doing it until now is my impression that blogs are, for the most part, a forum for narcissistic wind bags who have either run out of minutes on their cell phones, or thrive pathetically on the comments others post about them and their menial endeavors.

But my impression is changing. And I really don't want to be left behind. After all, I wouldn't be hip (blah blah blah) if I didn't have a blah blah blog.

I'm sure you don't believe that any more than I do, and I really am interested in hearing from you, despite my cynical ramblings and meanspirited cat-kicking nature.

Anyone want to talk about stocks? The advatages of living in the Charlotte metro area instead of wherever it is you happen to live? Why it's illegal for landscape contractors to hire American workers?

:)