The day before our home sale closed in Missouri we had 5 inches of rain in a very short time. The sewer overflowed through the manhole cover next door creating a terrible muck. The neighbor across the street had it back up into his house, even though the line would have run uphill to his […]
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My Last O’Reilly Book
I sometimes miss the simpler days when an alert was your JavaScript best friend.
Same Old Me
My previous weblog theme featured a very large photo as header, taking up the entire page before you would get to the writing. When I got a 4k monitor, the graphic didn’t upgrade that well, which made me realize how having a graphic play such a prominent role just wasn’t going to work. (It hasn’t […]
Our new home’s location
We saw a deer on the nature trail yesterday. The number one reason we bought our house is the location. The house is in excellent shape, but the kitchen is small, as are two of the bedrooms and the second bath. In fact, the second bath isn’t even the standard 5 x 8. Our neighbors […]
We came. We saw.
We came, we saw houses. Jessica Drive was an amazing lot. We loved it. But the house had a lot wrong with it—far more than we wanted to deal with. The home we’re thinking of making an offer for is linked to this posting. The owners obviously loved the home, and took exceptional care of […]
