Our Soon-Not-To-Be-Home, the continuing saga

Thursday night our realtor came over with paperwork for Jennie and I to sign regarding the sale of our house. It's all just a technicality since it's our mortgage company that agreed to the terms of the short sale with the future owner of our house. I found it rather easy to sign the paperwork, as a result.

The next steps are some housing inspections, closing at the end of this month, and moving. Moving. To our new home, a location to be named later. Pray for us.

How Some Spammers Get Your E-mail Address

Like I've often said, "Friends don't let friends send chain letters or hoaxes."

Thanks to Mike, the '_monk', for the link.

Lizard Spit!

When I saw the title of this article, I thought I was surely mistaken, perhaps because of the cold beer I've been drinking. The beer is Miller Genuine Draft in a 24 ounce can, the equivalent of two 12 ounce bottles, which I might also drink in one sitting. It's been awhile since I'd had lighter lager beer; my beer of choice has lately been Guinness (the spelling of the name doesn't appear right - maybe it's the beer again).

Back to the article. I'd heard something about this on TV or the radio last week, but I couldn't find a link on the 'Net to reference in a blog post. Now I do. Amylin Pharmaceuticals and Eli Lilly are developing a drug called exenatide from the venom in the saliva of the Gila monster. The venom helps to stimulate the lizard's metabolism, and scientists have found that the molecule works in humans, too.

Our Soon-To-Not-Be-Home

We were informed last week by our realtor that our mortgage company has accepted the offer that was made. So, soon we'll have to move. Moving into an apartment from a house. We need to shed a lot of our possessions. I'm also wondering about how the four of us (Jennie, Keisha, Mom, and I), along with our dog, can fit into an affordable three-bedroom apartment.

It looks like we'll need to do this in October. More to come later.

Tired

After spending a lot of the night and today getting the computer updated, I'm feeling tired. Sleep has been intermittent, and I have to head to work in about a half hour. Tonight I'll be closing, which means that I'll be out until late.

I'm glad that there are sites like Windows Update at Microsoft. I'm also glad that the technicians were able to salvage the data from the old hard drive. I'm almost finished tweaking the configuration (a few more programs to install, etc.), and soon I'll be able to let the rest of the family use the computer.

Our PC Has Come Home

After some bloodletting, we were finally able to bring our PC home from being serviced. I'm actually blogging on it as I type this. I'm still updating the configuration, but for now, it's working. We'll see.

Happy Birthday, Mom!

Today is Mom's birthday. I know I mentioned it earlier, but I just wanted to include it in its own post.

Recently she visited her doctor and got a referral to DaytonPainMed because of the constant pain she lives with, and we'll be leaving the library in a bit to go to her first appointment there.

She does a much better job of describing what it's like to live in constant pain in her blog, "Me, Myself, and I."

Happy Birthday, Mom. I love you!

How About a Diversion?

While sitting at your desk make clockwise circles with your right foot.



While doing this, draw the number "6" in the air with your right hand.



What direction is your foot going now?

via an email from Jeff, who probably should've been doing something more constructive with his time. ;D

Those Misheard Song Lyrics

Jill Brimeyer is a mom, freelance magazine writer, and author who also submitted a comment at our guestbook (Submit a comment, View the guestbook).

Somehow she found one of my blogs, and she loved reading "100 Things about the Danimal."

Jill is collecting stories of young children's wacky interpretations of popular songs at her website, which is entitled Momdegreens:

Did you know that the Hootie and the Blowfish song "Hold my Hand" is really about a friendly bear? Well, if you ask my kindergartener, it is...

So head over there to see what she's all about, and be sure to add your own stories.

Of course, this all reminds me of the website "Kissthisguy.com," another archive of misheard lyrics. That website is

"named for one of the world's most commonly misheard lyric (or is it? Click here for the full scoop on Hendrix and this "mishearance.")

Long Time, No Blog

Has it really been almost an entire week? Wow. I'm back at the downtown library with Mom. Today, September 2, 2003, is her birthday. Why not stop by and say hello? I know that she'll appreciate it.

Preliminary email check for one account indicates that I have 87 messages in my junk folder and 8 probable spam messages in the Inbox.

I just checked the other email account, and it indicates that I have 54 email messages in my junk folder and 38 unread messages in my Inbox. I must be a popular guy or something.