Guard Dog Posted February 17, 2015 Share Posted February 17, 2015 HOA went up again and I'm thinking it's time to get a house and some land somewhere. I like Colorado most of the time(every day it's not snowing) but maybe it's time to move to a new state where I can get a little bit more bang for my buck How about Tennessee? I bought 24.5 acres on a river and built a house on it for $400K. That won't even get you a single family home in many areas. 1 "While it is true you learn with age, the down side is what you often learn is what a damn fool you were before" Thomas Sowell Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Malcador Posted February 17, 2015 Share Posted February 17, 2015 $400k would get you 400 sq feet here I think, in a decent area you aren't doomed to drive everywhere in, anyway. Why has elegance found so little following? Elegance has the disadvantage that hard work is needed to achieve it and a good education to appreciate it. - Edsger Wybe Dijkstra Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guard Dog Posted February 17, 2015 Share Posted February 17, 2015 I don't think I'll ever live in an urban or suburban area again. Heck i don't think I'd want to live within the city limits of a small town again. Once you go rural you don't go back. 1 "While it is true you learn with age, the down side is what you often learn is what a damn fool you were before" Thomas Sowell Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Woldan Posted February 17, 2015 Share Posted February 17, 2015 Visited the doc for a quick unscheduled health check because why not, but then that sick pervert stole some of my blood and piss for...''examination''! Yeah...right. He also asked me if I was doing roids but he saw in the blood and urine that I'm not touching any of that crap. According to him I'm physically in very good shape and fully operational, which is one of the very few things that really matter in life. I gazed at the dead, and for one dark moment I saw a banquet. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Malcador Posted February 17, 2015 Share Posted February 17, 2015 Once you go rural you don't go back. That's just cause they frown on married cousins in the city. 1 Why has elegance found so little following? Elegance has the disadvantage that hard work is needed to achieve it and a good education to appreciate it. - Edsger Wybe Dijkstra Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gromnir Posted February 17, 2015 Share Posted February 17, 2015 I don't think I'll ever live in an urban or suburban area again. Heck i don't think I'd want to live within the city limits of a small town again. Once you go rural you don't go back. rural frequent demands "long drive times." whether it be for work or entertainment, am not a fan o' bloated drive times. take 45 minutes to drive to work or similar time to get to a decent restaurant? am currently doing that and am getting increasingly sick o' it. also, we not have kids, but am recalling some o' our childhood memories o' what school bus rides is frequent like in rural settings... which is just one reason we didn't often go to public school. if we had kids, we wouldn't want them to need suffer some o' those interminable bus rides to get to a school with a mediocre rating... and we sure not wanna add extra drive time to our own commute to get such hypothetical kids to a decent private school. mood takes us and we wanna eat decent sushi or see a play, we not want it to be requiring significant planning. however, please note that Gromnir grew up on a ranch/farm at pine ridge. first 13 years o' our life were extreme rural. it were a frequent miserable existence, but that is 'cause pine ridge is having worse education, infant mortality, life expectancy and standard of living than does gaza (and many other places in the third world) so perhaps our pov o' rural were tainted. we did have a pony and a rifle, so it weren't all bad. HA! Good Fun! 1 "If there be time to expose through discussion the falsehood and fallacies, to avert the evil by the processes of education, the remedy to be applied is more speech, not enforced silence."Justice Louis Brandeis, Concurring, Whitney v. California, 274 U.S. 357 (1927) "Im indifferent to almost any murder as long as it doesn't affect me or mine."--Gfted1 (September 30, 2019) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ShadySands Posted February 17, 2015 Share Posted February 17, 2015 I don't think I'll ever live in an urban or suburban area again. Heck i don't think I'd want to live within the city limits of a small town again. Once you go rural you don't go back. I grew up in a rural area and surrounded by farms on all sides but I don't think I really want to go back to that even minus the farms. I love having space but I also love having the conveniences of the city and I don't miss having to go to "town" for most everything. Maybe the balance I want doesn't really exist or maybe it does but I just can't afford it 1 Free games updated 3/4/21 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mkreku Posted February 17, 2015 Share Posted February 17, 2015 He also asked me if I was doing roids but he saw in the blood and urine that I'm not touching any of that crap. He can't "see that" in either your blood or urine unless he specifically tested for it. Which he didn't unless you asked him to (and paid out of your ass to get it). Also, there's no general test to find steroids/doping, you actually have to test for each and every known substance (almost) so it's a very expensive test and unfortunately very unreliable since new drugs pop up all the time. Swedes, go to: Spel2, for the latest game reviews in swedish! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Woldan Posted February 17, 2015 Share Posted February 17, 2015 (edited) He also asked me if I was doing roids but he saw in the blood and urine that I'm not touching any of that crap. He can't "see that" in either your blood or urine unless he specifically tested for it. Which he didn't unless you asked him to (and paid out of your ass to get it). Also, there's no general test to find steroids/doping, you actually have to test for each and every known substance (almost) so it's a very expensive test and unfortunately very unreliable since new drugs pop up all the time. I didn't ask him how he does it, he just said he can see it. I do not know how since I'm not a doc and my knowledge in that area is limited, maybe he was talking about a certain combination of typical long term side effects that stuff causes is visible in the blood? But he is known to make really elaborate tests since he has his own lab. Edited February 17, 2015 by Woldan I gazed at the dead, and for one dark moment I saw a banquet. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LadyCrimson Posted February 17, 2015 Share Posted February 17, 2015 Eye Doctor: "Everything seems fine, you're just at a point where you may find you heal slower than you did once." Me: "So basically you're saying I'm getting old." Eye Doctor: "Yup." Me: "All righty then, good to know!" ...that taken care of, now time to take my slow healing old self to the autoshop, DMV, the accountant office, and the grocery store. 1 “Things are as they are. Looking out into the universe at night, we make no comparisons between right and wrong stars, nor between well and badly arranged constellations.” – Alan Watts Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Malcador Posted February 17, 2015 Share Posted February 17, 2015 Get a second opinion maybe ? Why has elegance found so little following? Elegance has the disadvantage that hard work is needed to achieve it and a good education to appreciate it. - Edsger Wybe Dijkstra Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PK htiw klaw eriF Posted February 18, 2015 Share Posted February 18, 2015 Today I killed it on an exam and spent some time with my girlfriend. 1 "Akiva Goldsman and Alex Kurtzman run the 21st century version of MK ULTRA." - majestic "you're a damned filthy lying robot and you deserve to die and burn in hell." - Bartimaeus "Without individual thinking you can't notice the plot holes." - InsaneCommander "Just feed off the suffering of gamers." - Malcador "You are calling my taste crap." -Hurlshort "thankfully it seems like the creators like Hungary less this time around." - Sarex "Don't forget the wakame, dumbass" -Keyrock "Are you trolling or just being inadvertently nonsensical?' -Pidesco "we have already been forced to admit you are at least human" - uuuhhii "I refuse to buy from non-woke businesses" - HoonDing "feral camels are now considered a pest" - Gorth "Melkathi is known to be an overly critical grumpy person" - Melkathi "Oddly enough Sanderson was a lot more direct despite being a Mormon" - Zoraptor "I found it greatly disturbing to scroll through my cartoon's halfing selection of genitalias." - Wormerine "I love cheese despite the pain and carnage." - ShadySands Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Azdeus Posted February 18, 2015 Share Posted February 18, 2015 So I scratched my cornea's some days back. Nothing too serious I'm told but one eye worse than the other. Patch and drops for one eye for a couple days, the other was just "don't rub it". That eye is fine again, but the worse one is still an irritation. Doesn't hurt too much anymore but still light sensitive/a bit blurry at times and feels a bit like there's grit in there. Guess I'll go have them check it again make sure it's on course. I'm lazy about most doctor stuff, but vision I don't mess with. I've got the same thing, don't care much about the other parts of the body, but I found it surprisingly easy to go to the hospital once my eyesight was on the line. Civilization, in fact, grows more and more maudlin and hysterical; especially under democracy it tends to degenerate into a mere combat of crazes; the whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, most of them imaginary. - H.L. Mencken Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Malcador Posted February 18, 2015 Share Posted February 18, 2015 Preparing for my exciting online course in Android development, is something to do at nights. Why has elegance found so little following? Elegance has the disadvantage that hard work is needed to achieve it and a good education to appreciate it. - Edsger Wybe Dijkstra Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LadyCrimson Posted February 18, 2015 Share Posted February 18, 2015 *playing a game* ... *monitor suddenly falls over towards keyboard, scramble to catch it* ...wtf? ... the plastic piece that goes from stand into back of monitor to hold panel up broke/split. lol. Now what. I don't suppose crazy glue could hold 27" lcd monitor weight? Man quality these days .... Edit: Plugged my 23" non-IPS into main PC. Oh, ugh, no no, this won't do anymore. Must...get...new...monitor. “Things are as they are. Looking out into the universe at night, we make no comparisons between right and wrong stars, nor between well and badly arranged constellations.” – Alan Watts Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guard Dog Posted February 18, 2015 Share Posted February 18, 2015 I don't think I'll ever live in an urban or suburban area again. Heck i don't think I'd want to live within the city limits of a small town again. Once you go rural you don't go back. I grew up in a rural area and surrounded by farms on all sides but I don't think I really want to go back to that even minus the farms. I love having space but I also love having the conveniences of the city and I don't miss having to go to "town" for most everything. Maybe the balance I want doesn't really exist or maybe it does but I just can't afford it Yeah there are definite trade offs. As Gromnir pointed out drive times are the biggest headache. My last two jobs allowed me to work from home but now that I'm looking again a commute seems inevitable. My wife works in down town Memphis and it's a 80 minute drive for her. Fortunately her work hours allow her to miss rush hour. The nearest grocery & hardware stores are a good 20 minutes away. Same is true for anything resembling a restaurant. We don't get mail delivery out here (but UPS & FedEx come so go figure) and I used to have to rely on satellite for both TV & Internet. Fortunately AT&T put up a cell site in Ft. Pillow so I bought an all-you-can-eat data plan from them and use that now instead of Hughes Net which stunk. Forget calling 911 in an emergency, you're on your own. But the upshot is I have a house and a lot of land that is all mine. I don't have to ask permission to paint my house or plant a garden or plant or remove trees. I have farm animals, I can hunt & shoot right on my own property. No one is around to complain about how loud my radio is or if I'm working on a car or anything else. I am the king of my own country out here. Having dealt with abusive and power-mad HOAs and intrusive city governments in the past this kind of freedom is worth any inconvenience to me. 2 "While it is true you learn with age, the down side is what you often learn is what a damn fool you were before" Thomas Sowell Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Woldan Posted February 18, 2015 Share Posted February 18, 2015 The biggest upside about living in the country (besides the much better air) is being able to grow your own vegetables so you don't have to rely entirely on the crap they sell in the stores. I think thats what I'd miss the most if I had to move into the city. 2 I gazed at the dead, and for one dark moment I saw a banquet. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LadyCrimson Posted February 18, 2015 Share Posted February 18, 2015 Me:"Monitor stand broke. " Hubby: "See those 4 holes? That's for a real monitor stand. Maybe I have one that'll work." Me: "My hero!" (few minutes later) Hubby: "Here's one." Me: "My hero!" (few minutes later) Hubby: "Hm, monitor cable placement gets in the way, panel would be tilted up too much." Me: " " Hubby: "Might have a couple different ones that would work (at office), I'll try later tonight." Me: "Ah. Poo. Well...you're still my hero. Just a delayed one." 2 “Things are as they are. Looking out into the universe at night, we make no comparisons between right and wrong stars, nor between well and badly arranged constellations.” – Alan Watts Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LadyCrimson Posted February 18, 2015 Share Posted February 18, 2015 The biggest upside about living in the country (besides the much better air) is being able to grow your own vegetables so you don't have to rely entirely on the crap they sell in the stores. I think thats what I'd miss the most if I had to move into the city. If you have a city house with a yard, you can still grow your own vegies + a few fruit trees. Not an acre size farm, unless you're rich, but still a good size for single/family use. Not the same, I know, but you can. “Things are as they are. Looking out into the universe at night, we make no comparisons between right and wrong stars, nor between well and badly arranged constellations.” – Alan Watts Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Labadal Posted February 18, 2015 Share Posted February 18, 2015 Waiting for an appointment for my shoulder/chest/back, I have started doing my own thing, and it has worked decently so far. I actually feel no pain since yesterday. I haven't felt like this in over 3 years. I still want to get some advice but boy does it feel good. Been doing light exercises with dumbbells and also lots of stretching. I'm also doing a bit of running. It's cold as **** outside and my dry skin is killing me when I'm outside, but I am enjoying it. (Well, I don't really love running, but the feeling afterwards is great.) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guard Dog Posted February 19, 2015 Share Posted February 19, 2015 Just watched the movie Draft Day with Kevin Costner. It was really good. Like Moneyball but with football. "While it is true you learn with age, the down side is what you often learn is what a damn fool you were before" Thomas Sowell Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Heijoushin Posted February 19, 2015 Share Posted February 19, 2015 Hello everyone. Happy Chinese New Year! Year of the Sheep I believe. May you all have much good fortune and enjoying playing PoE this year. I almost forgot about it actually (luckily a friend messaged me at midnight). I guess the whole Chinese world is celebrating right about now, but for the rest of us, its just another Wednesday. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LadyCrimson Posted February 19, 2015 Share Posted February 19, 2015 Back on my IPS monitor. It may not be the bestest high quality IPS monitor, but ... I'm spoiled now. I love my IPS monitor. It's a little backward-tilted still (stupid cable placement) but it'll work. As long as I don't have to stare at that horrible other thing I have. Time now to curl up with Sherlock Holmes (not literally) and fall asleep. “Things are as they are. Looking out into the universe at night, we make no comparisons between right and wrong stars, nor between well and badly arranged constellations.” – Alan Watts Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rosbjerg Posted February 19, 2015 Share Posted February 19, 2015 Shaking my head over my fellow Danes going crazy over this "terror attack" - I'm just happy we haven't experienced a real one, like 9/11, the Madrid bombing or the London Underground attacks.. But then we are so very small, so a few people dying probably feels like hundreds to them. Also, borrowed books and working on sales for a friends company, to help him expand. Fortune favors the bald. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hurlshort Posted February 19, 2015 Share Posted February 19, 2015 Rose. Rabbit. Lie. was the most amazing restaurant I have ever been too. Unique plates, amazing drinks, hidden rooms, and huge fur covered chairs. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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