The bank countered with $160,000 on our offer of $145,000. That is full sticker price on a home that is going to be foreclosed on in the coming days.
That is laughable. The bank is laughable.
Ah well, on to a better house for us!
Maybe we will have to put an offer in on 150 Shuttle Meadow Avenue.
(Man, not many addresses have such a cool street name either)
Tuesday, September 28, 2010
Sunday, September 26, 2010
Quick Column: Top 5 Sports Thoughts for Today
This is five sports thoughts for today, Sunday September 26, 2010.
1. I really like watching football. Working on Sunday's is a real cramp in my sporting life. (might as well second that for Saturday too)
2. Did the Twins win the Central Division early and then go home and wait for the playoffs? Their losing streak is at three games and they are one game behind the Tampa Bay Rays for the best record in the American League. The New York Yankees are hot on their tail as well; if it was not for my beloved Boston Red Sox taking two of the first three games from the Yankees (who lead 2-1 in the top of the 8th at this moment at Yankee Stadium) they could also be ahead of the Twins for the best record in the league.
The Twins own the best home record in the American League at 52-25 (New York is second at 51-29). So, I know the Twins clinched first, long ago, and I know some guys need some rest. But why start playing 'sprint' (thinking they can turn it on with the flick of a switch) with a baseball season when they've been playing 'marathon' all season long. I think they need to keep winning, winning now, to claim the best record so they have home field advantage the whole way through.
The Yankees won the World Series in the first year of their new stadium, now why can't the Twins?
They only will if they can grab home field advantage throughout the American League Playoffs.
Though, I'm not sure they can without Justin Morneau's bat either. But that's a whole Top 5 Sports Thoughts for Today on its own.
3. I saw a quick, in-game highlight package of today's Lions vs. Vikings game. It was a montage of all of the hits Brett Favre took in the game. If the Vikings let him get hit like that every week or every other week, he could be in for a longer season than it already feels like for him. It only takes one hit for him to go down, especially at his quadragenarian status.
4. Shannon Rowbury won the NYRR Fifth Avenue Mile this afternoon in New York City with a time of 4:24.12. She edged out Sara Hall who was just under a quarter second behind in second place, 4:24.34.
Alan Webb, who's had an average running career, finished fourth in 3:53.72 but is coming back from Achilles tendon surgery this season. Now that it's over, we'll have to see more from him next year, but I'd love to see him fill his potential that he established in high school at the Prefontaine Classic where he set an American record for the mile run for high schoolers.
5. A big rivalry: Green Bay at Chicago tomorrow on Monday Night Football.
Prediction: Green Bay 27 Chicago 20
1. I really like watching football. Working on Sunday's is a real cramp in my sporting life. (might as well second that for Saturday too)
2. Did the Twins win the Central Division early and then go home and wait for the playoffs? Their losing streak is at three games and they are one game behind the Tampa Bay Rays for the best record in the American League. The New York Yankees are hot on their tail as well; if it was not for my beloved Boston Red Sox taking two of the first three games from the Yankees (who lead 2-1 in the top of the 8th at this moment at Yankee Stadium) they could also be ahead of the Twins for the best record in the league.
The Twins own the best home record in the American League at 52-25 (New York is second at 51-29). So, I know the Twins clinched first, long ago, and I know some guys need some rest. But why start playing 'sprint' (thinking they can turn it on with the flick of a switch) with a baseball season when they've been playing 'marathon' all season long. I think they need to keep winning, winning now, to claim the best record so they have home field advantage the whole way through.
The Yankees won the World Series in the first year of their new stadium, now why can't the Twins?
They only will if they can grab home field advantage throughout the American League Playoffs.
Though, I'm not sure they can without Justin Morneau's bat either. But that's a whole Top 5 Sports Thoughts for Today on its own.
3. I saw a quick, in-game highlight package of today's Lions vs. Vikings game. It was a montage of all of the hits Brett Favre took in the game. If the Vikings let him get hit like that every week or every other week, he could be in for a longer season than it already feels like for him. It only takes one hit for him to go down, especially at his quadragenarian status.
4. Shannon Rowbury won the NYRR Fifth Avenue Mile this afternoon in New York City with a time of 4:24.12. She edged out Sara Hall who was just under a quarter second behind in second place, 4:24.34.
Alan Webb, who's had an average running career, finished fourth in 3:53.72 but is coming back from Achilles tendon surgery this season. Now that it's over, we'll have to see more from him next year, but I'd love to see him fill his potential that he established in high school at the Prefontaine Classic where he set an American record for the mile run for high schoolers.
5. A big rivalry: Green Bay at Chicago tomorrow on Monday Night Football.
Prediction: Green Bay 27 Chicago 20
Sunday, September 19, 2010
Finger Photos
Well, most of us know that I had my finger smashed in the mall door two weeks ago. I was helping Pam slide the doors open on Sunday morning; I'd slide them in the section in the wall and she'd pass me the ones from further away. Well, that got a little hasty and as I had my hand pushing behind the door the next one arrived at my right middle finger nail, and smash! A pretty good sized door coming pretty quickly took out my middle finger nail bouncing the lower part of my nail out underneath my cuticle.
I got my hand out from between shook it hard twice, actually trying to "shake it off." The throbbing quickly started blood started pooling and I walked downstairs. Long story short, I got dizzy, nauseous, had some blurred vision and ringing in my ears before it all faded to a muffle, started sweating profusely and ended up having my boss call an ambulance because I didn't know what to do, nor did she. I laid down and by the time they got there I was feeling better. They took my blood pressure, which if I recall correctly was like 100/70, which is low for me. If I remember correctly at the couple doctor visits after it was about 115/75 or 80. The ambulance man didn't even look at it closely to maybe have a suggestion to take care of it right then and he just slapped a band aid on it before I worked the rest of the day.
I worked with it throbbing on Monday, Labor Day, and thought I should seek a second opinion as I wasn't sure how my nail would miraculously settle back into my nail bed. Well, that ended up having me annoyingly, oh so annoyingly, spend my three days off in a row that I had because of Labor Day spend a couple hours at Allina, Summit Orthopedics on Wednesday and going back to their Landmark Center in St. Paul for the finger surgery.
That's right, surgery. Minor surgery and all but that's what it was. For the first time I entered a flat out surgical center room with the huge lamps overhead, hook ups for anything you'd ever want, enough blue covering to make a Smurf the size of a skyscraper and enough air conditioning to go hypothermia.
The worst part was that I had to spend all of that time, my own time, getting this garbage fixed. And how many times do I get three days off in a row, just because that's how the schedule is? Well, this might have been the first time in five years of working there, surely not more than a few times.
Anyway, I'm going to post some pictures. Take a look. Or shield your eyes and stop reading now.
I got my hand out from between shook it hard twice, actually trying to "shake it off." The throbbing quickly started blood started pooling and I walked downstairs. Long story short, I got dizzy, nauseous, had some blurred vision and ringing in my ears before it all faded to a muffle, started sweating profusely and ended up having my boss call an ambulance because I didn't know what to do, nor did she. I laid down and by the time they got there I was feeling better. They took my blood pressure, which if I recall correctly was like 100/70, which is low for me. If I remember correctly at the couple doctor visits after it was about 115/75 or 80. The ambulance man didn't even look at it closely to maybe have a suggestion to take care of it right then and he just slapped a band aid on it before I worked the rest of the day.
I worked with it throbbing on Monday, Labor Day, and thought I should seek a second opinion as I wasn't sure how my nail would miraculously settle back into my nail bed. Well, that ended up having me annoyingly, oh so annoyingly, spend my three days off in a row that I had because of Labor Day spend a couple hours at Allina, Summit Orthopedics on Wednesday and going back to their Landmark Center in St. Paul for the finger surgery.
That's right, surgery. Minor surgery and all but that's what it was. For the first time I entered a flat out surgical center room with the huge lamps overhead, hook ups for anything you'd ever want, enough blue covering to make a Smurf the size of a skyscraper and enough air conditioning to go hypothermia.
The worst part was that I had to spend all of that time, my own time, getting this garbage fixed. And how many times do I get three days off in a row, just because that's how the schedule is? Well, this might have been the first time in five years of working there, surely not more than a few times.
Anyway, I'm going to post some pictures. Take a look. Or shield your eyes and stop reading now.
Tuesday, September 7, 2010
Lance is my Friend
Lance is my friend because he so kindly let me join him for last Thursday's Broncos vs. Vikings preseason football game and Friday night's Rangers vs. Twins game.
Lance had three tickets to the Vikings game so Paul and I joined him. I don't recall seeing any starter, despite Lance saying two starters did do just that. So, why did I go anyway with no Brett Favre, Percy Harvin, Jared Allen starting?
Well, I went to see Tim Tebow. I saw him complete 12 of 16 passes for 167 yards with one touchdown and one interception. I would have never guessed he played that "well" statistically. He didn't play exceptionally well but most of his passing was short screen passes and drop offs. He did have one very nice pass to Matt Willis from 39 yards out.
Here was the pitch and catch.
http://www.nfl.com/videos/nfl-network-total-access/09000d5d81a3b06e/Can-t-miss-Tebow-goes-deep-for-a-touchdown
And here's a picture of Tim Tebow.
Friday night we jaunted back to Minneapolis and arrived at Target Field in time to take in some of the sights and sounds of a new ballpark before sitting down near the right field foul pole to watch some of the 50 greatest Twins be celebrated before the game.
During the game, the Twins defeated the Rangers, 4 to 3. We had a good time watching the game despite the chilly 55 degree temperature. I took a 60/40 down to polyester blend coat and wished I took my Columbia winter coat. It could have been used very nicely and kept me warm.
Alas, here are some of the pictures I took.
While there, honoring Kirby Puckett, we watched his appearance on the David Letterman Show on the Top 10 Ways To Mispronounce Kirby Puckett. This was the first, there were some great ones in the top ten.
It was on May 9, 1997, here is the top ten.
Baseball Almanac Link
Lance had three tickets to the Vikings game so Paul and I joined him. I don't recall seeing any starter, despite Lance saying two starters did do just that. So, why did I go anyway with no Brett Favre, Percy Harvin, Jared Allen starting?
Well, I went to see Tim Tebow. I saw him complete 12 of 16 passes for 167 yards with one touchdown and one interception. I would have never guessed he played that "well" statistically. He didn't play exceptionally well but most of his passing was short screen passes and drop offs. He did have one very nice pass to Matt Willis from 39 yards out.
Here was the pitch and catch.
http://www.nfl.com/videos/nfl-network-total-access/09000d5d81a3b06e/Can-t-miss-Tebow-goes-deep-for-a-touchdown
And here's a picture of Tim Tebow.
Friday night we jaunted back to Minneapolis and arrived at Target Field in time to take in some of the sights and sounds of a new ballpark before sitting down near the right field foul pole to watch some of the 50 greatest Twins be celebrated before the game.
During the game, the Twins defeated the Rangers, 4 to 3. We had a good time watching the game despite the chilly 55 degree temperature. I took a 60/40 down to polyester blend coat and wished I took my Columbia winter coat. It could have been used very nicely and kept me warm.
Alas, here are some of the pictures I took.
While there, honoring Kirby Puckett, we watched his appearance on the David Letterman Show on the Top 10 Ways To Mispronounce Kirby Puckett. This was the first, there were some great ones in the top ten.
It was on May 9, 1997, here is the top ten.
Baseball Almanac Link
| 10. | Kooby Pickett. |
| 9. | Creepy Pockets. |
| 8. | Bernie Crumpet. |
| 7. | Turkey Bucket. |
| 6. | Buddy Hackett. |
| 5. | The Puckett Formerly Known as Kirby. |
| 4. | Punky Brewster. |
| 3. | Kent Hrbek. |
| 2. | There once was a man from Nantucket who Kirbied his very own Puckett. |
| 1. | Englepuck Kirbydink. |
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