SansFin
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3 hours ago, DougieB said:
It's more likely that you'd regret not having taken the leap than it is that you'll regret having done so. I'm no Suzi Orman but I know that nothing is more of a comfort than being in your own home, even with a mortgage. Mortgages are scary but the day you pay it off will be a great on in your life. And you'll have made your home our own in the meantime. I also live in an area with inflated property values (It's coastal) so I know what you're facing, but I'm sure the sacrifice will be worth it. Congratulations.
My primary regret at the moment is the amount of work which must be done immediately. It needs a full day to drive there from where we now live and so commuting to ready the house there and to close things out here and moving our things there begins to seem like an endless task. That we are moving from two-thousand square foot apartment to twelve-hundred square foot house does not help. That some repairs must be done there within reasonable time by professionals does not help also.
We do not have a mortgage. My fuzzy and I keep our finances very strictly separate but were able to pool what savings each of us have to be able to pay cash. This was important because the market moves quickly and many sellers will not consider an offer which contains the delay of applying for a mortgage and/or a contingency for buyer being able to back out if they can not receive financing. The house across the street and down one was listed for sale the day after we made the offer on ours and that house moved to 'pending' prior to our closing.
It is interesting to me that that house is very similar to ours as it was built by the same contractor using the same basic plan when the neighborhood was established. It is slightly smaller to fit a truncated lot. It sold for fully Twenty-Eight percent more than our house. The major difference is that ours needs three repairs which that one does not now need. We have budgeted seven percent for those repairs and believe that that is sufficiently generous to potentially leave some for landscaping.
An oddity which I may never be able to explain is that I contributed thirty-five percent and my little fuzzy contributed sixty-five percent but he insisted that my name be put first on the deed. He stated that it should be that way because it will be easier for me if he dies first. I know of no reason at present that he should think along those lines except that there recently been a number of incidents in which I wished to kill him.
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We signed the papers to purchase a house today.
I know that that will not seem to be of much importance but it marks for us the end of a two-month effort which required three years to complete because of odd problems even prior to COVID closing much activity. We have in a very real sense been living out of boxes to a great extent as we had begun packing for a move which never happened and then did not unpack because there was a new possibility imminent and then a new one after that and again and again. I must admit that I had little faith this time and only began to believe when we sat down with the packet of papers which needed signing at the title company office.
It is sad to say that it has drained us financially because the market in the area is such that it is difficult to find reasonably priced houses if you must include in your offer a waiting period for bank approval of a mortgage. We will have to wait to see how comfortable we are with little savings before deciding if we should then procure a mortgage or live as paupers.
We must now manage the move. I do not anticipate it being fun.
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On 12/17/2021 at 12:00 PM, DougieB said:
I know. It's like with all those Medicare supplement commercials. For a whole month we were counting down to December 7 when the enrollment period (and thus the gazillion commercials) ended.
It is sad to sat that not all such commercials have ended. The streaming services apparently do not watch closely the proper dates for commercials. Two nights ago there were four Medicare commercials back-to-back. Last night there was a commercial for an event of the weekend of December Eleventh through Twelfth.
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5 minutes ago, Dargo said:
(...but in the meantime, whenever I hear Carly Simon's "Anticipation" on the radio, I'll be thinkin' of you)
Great. You think of me when all others are thinking of ketchup. That is a fine thing to tell a person.
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9 minutes ago, Dargo said:
LOL
So Sans, would those "words" end up appearing like THIS -> ****** IF you now attempted to post 'em here???
I doubt it because Otto Censor knows English only and the best such words are in Russian or Greek. 😉
I will put it to you that I would not bother with you at all if I thought you: "average", "normal" or "unkindly" and I have no time in my life for people who are truly nasty or stupid. I have it in the back of my mind that I will one day prove that you can be: "gullible" but that is as negative as it goes.
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I do feel that she was miscast but it is not because of her nationality. It is for me more of an issue of basic type of personality.
I do not subscribe to the movement that roles should be assigned in agreement with actors' inalterable traits. Should only closeted gays be allowed to audition for the lead in a biography of Rock Hudson? A purist would demand that characters such as: Lady Macbeth, Portia and Titania should never be played by women because the plays were written for boys to fill those roles. How much would an actor have to give up for a part in an historical Middle Eastern movie if the role is a eunuch?
I consider blackface a sad sign of the times. I find slightly more undesirable the number of actual Asian actors who played stereotypical "Chinese Laundryman" or "Japanese Spy" roles.
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1 hour ago, Dargo said:
So then Sepia, you're implying here that I'm NOT your "average man"???
I can think of many words which I have used to describe you over the years but I must admit that: "average" never once crossed my mind.
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13 hours ago, Dargo said:
Sans, I'm afraid you've been taken in by a fake Groucho here.
Double take? Celebrity impersonators (timesunion.com)
(...yes, you soytenly have)
I did not put a name in the post because I was not comfortable with the image. I admit that I did not think it might be an imposter. My unease is that it seems much more refined and modern of an image to be from when Groucho was that age. I wondered if it might be a photorealistic drawing. I have been caught out by that more than once of recent.
I do not find eyebrows to be particularly sexy. I do find it disconcerting when the eyebrows do not match hair color. To see a blonde with dark eyebrows seems as if it is a careless bleach job. To see very light blonde eyebrows and black hair appears as if the alien did not properly research their disguise.
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On 12/6/2021 at 9:07 AM, TikiSoo said:
I especially liked the bunnies scary vocalizations while chewing in slow motion.
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Two pages and no one has mentioned the caterpillars on this guy's forehead?
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I am able now to fully and knowledgably attest that not all cruise controls are created equal.
My little fuzzy had an older model Oldsmobile. Picture driving seventy-five on the Interstate using cruise control and having to reduce to fifty because of a construction zone and then touching the: 'Resume' button when you are clear of it. The engine seemed positively grateful for the opportunity to demonstrate what a five litre V-8 can do. American power in an American automobile with American will. You were back to full speed quicker than you can speak of it.
I have just come from a similar situation in my compact foreign-born SUV with a one-point-five litre inline four. Pressing: 'Resume' was like nudging a narcoleptic sloth with a feather. "What? You want me? Oh, the speed. Yeah, I see it. What is wrong with it? You want to go faster? (Yawn) Well okay but I think it is a waste of time. There. Now it is fifty-two instead of fifty..." I doubt that it truly required twelve miles to work back up to cruising speed but it did very much feel that way.
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3 hours ago, Mr. Gorman said:
One time, circa 1994/95, a policemen pulled up behind me at the Strawberry Fields Plaza in West Palm Beach, FL where I was parked eating a Burger King chicken sandwich. It was obvious this policeman thought he was going to catch a bad criminal! ME! 😲 But much to the cop's disappointment -- after keeping my Driver's License for a full 10 minutes looking for 'dirt' -- he found out from the Florida DMV that the turquoise '64 Falcon I was sitting in was indeed MINE! I still had my Publix shirt on, too. It was coral-coloured with the PUBLIX logo in green on the sleeves . . .
So apparently the cop thought I'd gotten off work from Publix, stole a Falcon, went to Burger King and parked in a quiet area to eat . . . and then he was gonna catch me! I was to be hauled off to The Hoosegow for vehicle thievery! 🚗
GOOD GOSH. 🥴
Perhaps he thought that you might be a contestant in an American version of: Intercept (1998-2000) and were trying to hide in plain sight to run out the clock so that you could keep the Falcon.
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My current drive has: "Adaptive Cruise Control". You set the speed as normal and it maintains it within +/- one mph when the road ahead is clear. There is an indicator which shows relative distance when coming up behind a vehicle. It slows to match the speed of that vehicle while maintaining a proper distance. It does this only by throttle control. It does not seem to brake while going downhill but there truly is no way to tell if there is a slight application. It has an eight-speed automatic transmission and shift points at the higher ranges are sufficiently gentle that one would have to be paying particular attention to notice a downshift.
Having a car cut close in front and slowing turns my drive into a panic room with all displays flashing bright red, brakes applied at maximum and crash sirens blaring. I believe the on-board computer also checks if your will is current and stands ready to notify your next of kin.
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53 minutes ago, misswonderly3 said:
SansFin, I just wanted to clarify: the "haha" emoticon I clicked for your post ( quoted above) was not given in any disrespectful way. I do not think you'd take it that way, but just wanted to make sure.
I am often tempted to post that "laugh/haha" emoji after your posts because you write in such a clever and entertaining way, your posts often make me laugh.
ps: I gather your fuzzy is an aspiring writer. Completion, as anyone who's attempted to write is all too aware, is at least as difficult as beginning (which has its own share of difficulties to face, whether it be a blank page or a blank screen.)
I have been told that I am a very funny person. "But looks are not everything" is commonly added to the comment.
I thank you for your kind words. I attempt to write in a light-hearted way and so the "ha-ha" emotie is most often appropriate. I reserve serious tones for technical issues. I have a great disconnect between speaking and writing. Using voice-to-text software produces results which look odd. I adhered to style sheets and model sentences when re-learning to write to overcome the oddness and subconsciously adopted the style as my own.
One of my little fuzzy's income streams is freelance writing to transform technical reports into plain language or create speeches and presentations for conferences under contract. He finishes all of those within the allotted time so that he will be paid. He is a short story author also in four genres of fiction with publication credits in national magazines and sells reprint rights in international markets. It is this fiction work which creates the snippets I am exploring. He is: "seat of the pants" writer who begins with an opening situation and then sees where the story goes. It is sad to say that the great majority of them do not engender stories which he considers worth writing. His average for several decades has been to write at least one opening each and every day and completing and selling a story every six years.
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I am reading story openings, blurbs and other miscellany which has accumulated on my fuzzy's computer. His basic greed runs deep and he has a very low completion ratio when writing on spec. These snippets are as far as the stories reached before being abandoned. I may be doing this for a while because he has slightly over one gigabyte of such files which were backed-up but have not been opened in eight years or more.
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1 hour ago, King Rat said:
It was odd to see All That Jazz only after I'd seen Fosse/Verdon last year. The two previous films I'd seen were Tight Spot and King of Cool, and it was amusing that All That Jazz also had a smarmy telethon host (though I greatly preferred Mississippi Mac of Tight Spot), and after the unfunny scenes of Jerry Lewis in King of Cool, All That Jazz topped it with two unfunny comics, the emcee at the burlesque house (I felt sorry for this guy, whose jokes weren't as bad as the movie wanted us to believe) and the agonizingly unfunny and smugly self-important "cutting edge" comic based on Lenny Bruce and played by Cliff Gorman, who had played Lenny Bruce onstage. Unfortunately, Fosse keeps returning to Gorman's monologue as a structural element of the film. Because I was watching TCM in real time I couldn't use fast forward, but the mute button was frequently employed.
That being said, there are great sections of All That Jazz. The audition and rehearsal scenes are what make the movie worth watching. These scenes are brilliantly conceived, executed, and edited. The other great scene is the dance number to "Everything Old Is New Again" performed for director/choreographer Joe Gideon (Roy Scheider) by his ex-wife (Leland Palmer) and daughter (Erzsebet Foldi). Roy Scheider and Leland Palmer both give superb performances, and I enjoyed all of their scenes. Ann Reinking, who has a strange voice, is adequate as one of the director's many girlfriends. I recall that the actress who played Reinking in Fosse/Verdon was dinged by some critics for using a strange voice, and other people said no, that was what Ann Reinking sounded like. They were right.
The show-within-a-show's composer, producer, and financial backers are all broadly caricatured. So if Fosse's collaborators wondered what he thought of them, I guess they found out.
I hadn't seen the set Dave Karger used for the intro, with that ugly sofa. Was the color puke-green? Rancid chartreuse? The purple drapes didn't go with the sofa, either.
This is one of our great favorites. It hits not a single sour note.
It is Ann Reinking as Kate and Erzsebet Foldi as Michelle who do: "Everything Old is New Again" in his apartment. I know this well because I have to wipe the drool from a certain little fuzzy's chin because of his appreciation for the length of Ann Reinking's legs. Leland Palmer is with Erzsebet Foldi and Ann Reinking on: "After You've Gone", "There'll Be Some Changes Made", "Who's Sorry Now?" and "Some of These Days".
I have no personal knowledge but I have read that the audition and rehearsal scenes are exceptionally realistic. There is no question that he knew the scenarios well but it is nice to know that they are not characterizations as the business aspects are.
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On 11/28/2021 at 9:36 PM, rosebette said:
I loved how they show the interior of the house and went on about how if you don't pick up your newspapers and clutter, you're more likely to get destroyed in a nuke explosion. I wonder if Marie Kondo could include this in one of her programs.
Apparently, not only is cleanliness next to godliness - bad housekeeping is next to communism.
I must wonder if there was not a concern in suburbia because of the number of fallout shelters in homes. A poorly maintained house would have a much greater chance of burning and falling in on itself which could block the shelter's exit. Any standing walls and/or roofs would act against radioactive dust settling on the surfaces people would touch or traverse immediately after leaving a shelter.
Secondary fires from litter would be a concern because they could attack structures which withstood the initial blast.
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My drive is currently a small 2022 SUV. The shifting is: P R N D with an option to knock it again to put into S. That stands for: "Sport" which changes the shift points from lagging late to annoyingly early. I can not wait until the vehicle becomes so popular that performance chips are offered. I know they can not rid the turbo lag but there is so much that could be done to make it a bit more peppy and fun to drive.
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8 hours ago, Katie_G said:
I'm having a hard time naming older films that I actually like and qualify as an ensemble, but I'll give it some more thought.
IMDb.com allows a keyword: "ensemble cast".
Ginger Rogers singing in pig latin. Now that's something!
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