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23890. magoseph - 4/7/2008 5:26:03 PM 
23891. wonkers2 - 4/7/2008 7:15:09 PM True. What goes around eventually comes around. 23892. thoughtful - 4/7/2008 10:02:55 PM The gigantic machine is there ready to dig...but no one to run it! Wah!
 23893. arkymalarky - 4/7/2008 11:23:00 PM Oh man! Are the keys in it? ;-> 23894. judithathome - 4/8/2008 2:18:51 PM Back with my shiny new modem...but leaving for Dallas and the neurosurgeon's. Wish us luck! 23895. judithathome - 4/8/2008 2:20:33 PM Oh, and congrats on "Digging In" day, Thoughtful...can't wait to see a picture of the little evergreen atop the roof on "Topping Out" Day! 23896. alistairconnor - 4/8/2008 2:23:35 PM Good luck to you and Les, Judith!
Congrats on breaking old ground, Thoughtful!
And many returns to the happy Birthday Boyz Band (Ohio and Jex) 23897. thoughtful - 4/8/2008 2:42:30 PM I doubt this will help get the excavator digging any sooner, but I couldn't resist:
Oh Ken,
Oh Ken,
Say when
To dig,
To dig,
A big
A hole
A hole
Our goal
To start
To start
Our heart's
Desire
Desire
Acquire
A home
A home
Sweet home.
23898. thoughtful - 4/8/2008 2:43:57 PM Best wishes to J@h & son...I'm sure all will go well. Sending good vibes your way.
Best birthday wishes to Ohio & Jex...many happy returns (seeing as April 15 is coming!!!) 23899. thoughtful - 4/8/2008 4:01:46 PM Hahahah!
Just got a response from the project manager:
A hole
A hole
A hole you shall have
Will be the best in all the land
Just wait
Just wait
But not for long
Soon you will sing a song a song
Is today the day
Just wait and see
A call from the site you will get from me
23900. wonkers2 - 4/8/2008 7:12:56 PM Thoughtful, why don't you put up a link to the plans? 23901. wonkers2 - 4/8/2008 7:13:42 PM Or to a front perspective? 23902. thoughtful - 4/8/2008 8:35:49 PM well, i don't have them electronically... 23903. thoughtful - 4/8/2008 8:37:41 PM Now, if i can only get ken to stop writing poetry and find the @$#*&%!! excavator! Most frustrating as the weather yesterday and today were beautiful but by fri, sat and sun it's supposed to be all rain.
23904. thoughtful - 4/8/2008 10:26:20 PM From all my conversations with people who have built houses, I gather this is just the very very beginning of a very very long line of frustrations. 23905. arkymalarky - 4/8/2008 10:48:17 PM It is, but it's worth it, and if you keep your karma right you'll look back on it fondly. And there's a lot of pride and good feeling in it. I look at the decisions I've made and after 11 years I'm still satisfied and happy with my choices. I haven't even changed paint colors. Not that I won't one of these days. Our original mortgage financer, who built a much more palatial home than ours, said he didn't regret anything about his building decisions, down to the placement of his light switches.
A good friend built when I did and she's changed things up a lot--once due to a tree falling in the middle of her house. Her house is over twice as large as mine, and I remember when we were doing the foundations she cried because hers seemed so small. It's amazing that you walk around in what seems like a tiny space that becomes a nice-sized room. I don't know if it'll seem that way to y'all or not, but I remember wondering how we'd even turn around in our front bay room. 23906. judithathome - 4/9/2008 5:22:04 AM Leslie will have a stent put in on Thursday April 17. The doctor told him it is hospital policy (which he made very clear he personally opposes) that ten grand has to be paid upfront before the hospital will allow the surgery...WITH insurance!
I told Les this is why he needs to vote differently this time....ha!
Anyhow, the money is no problem...but that is just because our family is lucky...what about someone who has a desperate need for this surgery but can't come up with ten grand in ten days?
Anyhow, this whole thing sounds surreal...he will spend Thursday night in the hospital, go home on Friday, and the doctor said if he wants, he can go back to work on Monday! This doctor, who has long and slender gorgeous fingers, will be fiddling inside my son's brain and he says to us that afterward, my son can go back to work in two-day's time...it's amazing to me! 23907. wonkers2 - 4/9/2008 5:46:42 AM My Grosse Pointe GOP friends who oppose "socialized medicing" say that nobody goes without health care in the U.S. If they don't have money, all they have to do is show up at an emergency room and they will get the same treatment as anybody else. 23908. thoughtful - 4/9/2008 1:37:57 PM I hope you suggested to your friend that s/he try showing up at the emergency room to get a colonoscopy screening test and see how far s/he gets. 23909. thoughtful - 4/9/2008 1:49:59 PM J@h, that is amazing. I think they kept my brother in the hospital for at least a week after he had his stent put in.
And that money up front thing with insurance is beyond belief. What happens to all the people who don't have the $10k because they spent it on paying their insurance premiums!
Just like the catch-22 with the alternative minimum tax, which we get nailed by. We're not masters of foundations and charitable giving or anything. But we pay through the nose in property taxes which increases our deductions so much that the feds make us pay even more with the AMT!
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