Not This House

[unicornduke]

The seller accepted the other offer :| Oh well. We knew there was a chance that would happen when we put the offer on. None of the other houses we saw were what we were looking for, so we're back to searching. We might go see a couple this weekend that have just popped up.

I drove to the nearest office to have my computer looked at. It would not find windows each time it booted, so I had to reset it to bios default each morning. It's been doing that for a while but I am finally not-busy enough that I could spare the time to get it looked at. Turns out there was just a checkbox on the setup utilities that got unchecked. I dropped it off around 9, ran over to the fiber mill and picked up my washed fleece. I also stopped by the gluten free bakery since it was on the way and got bread, bagels and a cinnamon bun.

Drove back to the office, read stuff on my phone for a bit, then finally went in and picked my computer up. Turns out the IT person installed some stuff but also wiped it? I don't know. They upped the security on it because of potential cybersecurity stuff but now I need to log into all the programs and stuff again.

Drove back in the snow since that started around noon. They were predicting 1-2 inches and as of our walk at 4:30, there was 4 inches and it was still snowing. Mara was having a great time.



I've been watching the Paralympics since it is on Peacock like the Olympics and I really feel for the Ukrainian athletes who I'm pretty sure left for China before Russia invaded. The announcers are talking around it but they aren't pretending like everything is normal so there's that.

Comments

[graydon]

Nothing quite like a dog with snow on their nose to indicate that there may have been a slight excess of fun.

May the house search go well!

[unicornduke]

We had a delightful time!

Thanks, I'm trying to keep F from dramatically expanding the search area because there isn't a ton available right now and to just be patient. More will be coming on the market soon enough and neither of us are in a hurry.

[graydon]

Patient is good!

(difficulty, but useful. Lots of real estate agents will try to get you to panic, too.)

[unicornduke]

I think I found a good real estate agent, R has been excellent and more than happy to tell us when she thinks we shouldn't buy a place. She was willing to drive all over kingdom come when I was not a good prospect too. Very much not pushy even if it means F and I need to do a little more leg work on finding places. But I prefer it that way to be honest.

Since this is F's first time house hunting, she's getting the jitters about a lack of houses, which I did too when I was house hunting before. It's probably not helped by the idea that we need to jump on houses to see them because the market is going so fast right now.

But I think we might need to push it to Sunday or possibly into next week. We are due for 6-12 inches of snow Friday night and all day Saturday. East of me where F is and all the houses, is still waiting to see what impact they'll have but probably less but still gross.

[graydon]

Hard to look at houses from the ditch, yeah. :)

It can help a lot to do your own leg work, especially if you have specific requirements.

I continue to hope it goes very well!

[oracne]

Good luck with the next house offer!