The only bummer besides the fact that it's built for hobbits (small) is there's no fireplace. I'm from the woods where the power goes out occasionaly. You don't have to plug in a fire to make it burn and keep you warm. Wood is also fairly easy to find, even here in the "city". Plus I like fire. So maybe I'll put in a free standing quadrafire or something. I dunno, as I'm not going to have a hell of a lotta money left over after "closing costs" (whatever the heck those are) and the place has single pane windows so for damn sure I want to update those. 'Cource being that it was built in the 50's it's prolly got newspaper for insulation, but you do what you can do.

So the girls at the hardware store are prolly going to have to do without seein' me nearly every dam day for about the next 15 years unless my raise comes through. (You know it's bad when they know your name, say "Hi", and stop to talk to you while you're in there...) Even then that just means I can make double payments for awhile so maybe by the time I move outta town my morgage payment will be comporable to what I can get for rent coz I'll tell you what there's no way in hell I'm going to be able to get $1,000 a month for that place. Not for freakin' rent.. That's for sure. Then again I guess it is a house not a place where you've got jackasses on 3 sides like I did over at the snake-pit apartments. So there's a chance I guess. Which reminds me I better go move some money around in my investment accounts so I can pay the "good faith deposit" monday or I'll prolly loose the house tuesday.

So here's the pics I have of the inside of the house... I tried to put up the listing, but the code was SUCH a mess it hosed MY code on the rest of this page so I took it off again. Pictures are all you get. (Yup, I know they're teeny. I didn't take 'em.)

Oh Wait.... It doesn't have a pool either. Come to think of it tho since I don't live in Los Angeles nor was I much for swimming even when I could, (I pretty much "bob" now) I guess I don't need one. Shew!

So I went to see my pain doc on friday and told him of my burning all over the places I can't feel. He switched out the neurontin for tegretol... I haven't looked up the sheet on that stuff yet, and I'm kinda afraid to. It prolly will cause gigantic benign epidermal proliferations on my calvaria or something equaly as embarrasing. But it's doing pretty well to turn off the "gee Is the 2/3rds of me that can't feel being boiled alive?" feeling I've been having off and on back in recent memory. It's not doin' a whole hell of a lot for the spasms associated with the pain tho. My legs are still doing the dinga dinga dinga dinga whenever I shift in the bed a little. (Yes, it's 6.39 and I'm in bed. I'm tired. Awoke at 4am and couldn't sleep any more so I decided to get up. I'm tired now. So shoot me.) The side / ribs thing is still with me too, so I guess you can't have everything. Sure is nice to not feel as if I'm being boiled alive all the time tho. I kinda like it. So hopefully the new meds don't make me dumb or grow warts out of my forehead or make my business shrink down to a nub or .... I dunno, do other things I'll find annoying down the road. I think the legs might be all twitchy because of the burns on my feet... I sure wish they would heal, but I guess things are going as fast as they can. They are some pretty big burns- The right one's almost healed tho. Rig Left one tho... That one might take a while. It's not as big as it once was but it's still pretty damn big. Big enough to freak out Tanner, (one of my massage therapists) when he saw it after the bandage had fallen off. It's all good tho. They'll heal someday and quit tryin' to toss me out of the chair whenever they feel like it.
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Still havin' the bellyache thing... Dunno what the hell that's all about.. I wish it would go away, but on the other hand it's amazing that I can even feel it. Can it be "good" that something aches or hurts or whatever? Personaly I'd rather have no feeling than pain thankyouvery much.

Is anyone else getting tired of the "smiling Bob" enzyte commercials? It's all natural, so it skates right by the FDA... And apparently you need to keep taking it else they wouldn't be so excited about giving out the "one month free supply". Thankfully I don't have any kids so I don't have to explain "what's natural male enhancement"
Then there's cortislim who claims "other" products cause you to loose "meaningless weight" instead of fat. Meaningless weight? Exactly what the hell is that? What part of a human is meaningless weight?
Yeah, it's not your fault you're overweight. It IS your fault you cannot control yourself when you're near the twinkies and Ben~N~Jerries. It's simple people. Eat less. Move around more. Ever seen a fat valet? How 'bout a fat Vegas coctail waitress? (Well, mebbe that's a bad example as if they were hefalumps they wouldn't get hired I bet...) Ok, pick a job where someone moves around alot and see if you can find me a fat one. Drink coffee. Espresso. It raises your metabolism, and makes you all twitchy, so you move around alot more. Yeah you feel like a tweaker (because you are) but at least it's legal. You don't need the next best diet or some pill or some thing to help you along. Should you have a desk job, I'm sorry. That's going to make it more difficult, but you can still do it. You just have to do the movin' around before or after work, or transfer to a job where you get to move around. Not much, just some is all you need if you go for the 'eat less" part too. 'Specially if you do the espresso thing as well. Makes it alot easier as it's hard to sit still when you're full of energy. Now I'm not sayin' get a job as a bike messenger, just maybe walk to lunch at first, and don't have the Super kahuna with Everything and Double Cheese and you'll be alright.
K, end of the "How to loose weight" sermon. Now you're on your own.

Wait.... "Listerene's as effective as floss"? (No, the tv's not on...) Now That's gotta be the biggest load of catswaller I've heard in a long time... I don't know about you but when I floss s'pecialy after eating a meat or meat by-product I pull some hunks out from between my teeth with the floss. So unless Listerene disolves hunks of meat and knows the difference between living and dead flesh, how exactly can it be as effective as floss? Wouldn't that be great? Swish some of that around your mouth, it dissolves your gums and all your teeth fall out... Then you don't need floss. Not that that would happen as your teeth are anchored in bone, but...

Hey if anyone out there's got a piece of "toy" hose (PD, Whatever) that you won't get fired for puttin' in a box and passin' to me, would you? I've got one, but the damn thing's less than 6 months old and it's got 2 pinholes in it. Haven't a freakin' clue how the hell that happened as I've used it to rappell down a cliff and then put out a stumphole with about 350 psi and nary a blown piece in the lay... But here at the house there seem to be hose gremlins or somethin'.
I like it because it lays flat when there's no water in it and doesn't snare the front wheels tippin' me out of the chair when I hit it in the middle of the night. Or the middle of the day for that matter. Regular hoses are a bitch full or empty. Dunno why Needner hasn't gone public with that hose... Seems like there's a market.