Holy shit! Homestar has a journal? homestar_rss

Have caught up with the last 154 friends entries. Proceeding with house inspection and purchase. Work is still good. That is all.

HELLO FROM SCENIC DOWNTOWN SILICON VALLEY STOP M AND I HAVE SECURED A CONTRACT TO PURCHASE A NEW HOME NEAR THE SAME AREA STOP WE WILL BE MOVING THE HOMESTEAD TO A NEW LOCATION SOON AFTER AUGUST 15 STOP HOPE EVERYTHING IS FINE WITH YOU AND YOURS STOP GREG M CONNOR SANTA CLARA CALIFORNIA MESSAGE ENDS

Those Yahoos finally sent me my check. I don’t know why it wasn’t sent at the same time as the others. Perhaps I was just left off the list for some reason and they needed a reminder to put me back on. Anyway, down payment here we come!

Happy Birthday ysabel!

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In other news, we put an offer on the townhouse in Almost-Milpitas (off of 680 Berryessa). There was no counter for a couple days so it doesn’t look like we will get it. Oh well, I’m not too worried, we have just started and there are others to see and make offers on (including one 3 doors down from the first :) Taking our time is good, perhaps it will give me some time to finish the linoleum in the bathroom, and chase down the check from Yahoo that will make up the rest of the down payment. ...

Last night I made steaks. Normally I put them in the broiler on a broiler pan for 6 min each side. This time I decided to get them seared in a skillet, 30 sec each side, then thrown the skillet with steaks under the broiler. Safety note: the handle of the skillet will still be rocket-hot 1 min later. DO NOT attempt to just grab the thing when you go to deglaze the skillet. You will end up with a nice burn on your palm at the base of your thumb. Keep the hot pad draped over the handle to remind yourself not to grab it directly. ...

For those of you who term’d from Yahoo on 4/15, did you get your check? and when? was it direct deposited, live check, us mail, fed ex or…? I just recently realized that they were supposed to give it to me in 20 days and it’s been 60. I sent them a query and they’re working on tracking it down. Good thing I have another job I guess :)

Now that we have contacted a realtor, our house hunt is kicked off into high gear. I still don’t have a really good idea of where the neighborhoods are cheap-but-ok or cheap-and-slummy, but I think our guy has a good idea. We saw like 6 townhouses yesterday and will probably see 5 more on Monday. We are looking for a townhouse that is about the same square footage as our condo (1100 or a bit more), and has inside laundry, a ground floor entry and no upstairs neighbors, 2 br, 1.5-2.5 baths, and want to pay around 450k. We looked at a couple nice ones out Alum Rock, and out Berryessa, both east of 680, which are the two current front-runners (actually three because there were two identical mirror-image units out Berryessa). Tomorrow, we will probably look at some townhouses around 85 between 17 and 87. I don’t know which is worse, commuting up/down 85 or commuting on 237/680, probably about a wash. ...