Sneaky

We are in Hendersonville, NC for the next couple nights. My sister and her husband are visiting the area and seeing as this is closer than Connecticut we always try and meet them when they are here. For years they have been telling us that when Allen hits 55 he is going to retire early and move here.

Tonight while on a drive north of town they asked if we minded visiting a development where there are some nice home lots that they we thinking of buying in, we said sure. We drove up to near the highest point in the place and looked around. It was about 500 feet higher than the main road and the views were great. There were a couple/three lots still open, one had a for sale by developer sign, one had a for sale by a realtor sign and one didn’t have any sign except for what looked like a buried cable marker. All of them looked like a nice spot to put a home.

After we got back to the hotel my sister told us that the one without a for sale sign was theirs. They had bought it a couple years ago and wanted to get an unbiased opinion from us.

Sneaky.

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Wither Flickr!

There are only 5 days left until my Flickr Pro account expires. I’m not so sure I want to renew, I could waste that $25 somewhere else.

I like hosting my own pictures as I have total control on how they are displayed, but they don’t get as wide an exposure if they are just stuck here in my corner of the internet.

Previously I used (still do actually) a simple gallery script, but anytime I changed the look of the blog I had to monkey with the script’s CSS to get the galleries to match the blog http://tinyurl.com/43e39j.

With the recent upgrade I’m trying a gallery plugin that will solve the look issue, but it doesn’t work as automatically as I’d like. It imports a directory fine, but doesn’t create all the thumbnails https://www.mr-miata.net/?page_id=4087. Plus I will have to re-title and enter the captions for all those hundreds of images (453 just of Post offices.) Oh well, what else do I have to do?

How about captioning those last 120 vacation photos before you forget what they are of.

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91,000 Fried Synapses

Looked down this morning on the way to work and I noticed the odometer read 91047. When did that happen? Over the weekend? Some time in the last couple of days?

I couldn’t stand it any longer, upgraded WordPress to Version 2.7 tonight and to top it off I added a new look (with still some tweaking to do.)

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Vacation Photo Outtake III

Tinkertown Museum in Sandia Park, NM.

Admission to this piece of Roadside Americana is three bucks and then they give you a quarter back so you can listen to this band welcome you.

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Time Travel

I went outside to get the paper this morning and discovered I had been magically transported to November. It was cold, well relatively, anyway. We even put the top up on the way to work and probably will again tomorrow when it is supposed to be in the middle 40s.

Tonight when we went out to pay bills we grabbed two on the other side of Aiken. Both of these were considered small in size. We are slowly integrating the smaller hides into our repertoire. We were six out of nine geocaching on Saturday morning with the fifth one being find #100. The three missed were in the small category, but we weren’t totally hopeless at that size, two of the six finds were considered small.

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Is This Considered Outside?

I went out to the edge of the lawn and retrieved the paper. We ate both breakfast and lunch on the porch. Other than that, neither of us have been outside the house. Unless virtual forays via the internet count.

The weather was calling for an 80% chance of rain, so we had planned indoor activities. We watched the first 4 episodes of this season’s Law & Order: Criminal Intent, caught episodes 3 & 4 of this season’s In Plain Sight and the movie, The Changeling. It never did rain. Until the day was 80% over.

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For Sale Rent

There is a house just around the corner and down the street that has a sign out front. One of those $1.79 ones from Home Depot that says in big white letters on a red background:

FOR
SALE
BY OWNER

Apparently he hasn’t had much luck selling it, so he has decided to try another option, renting it. Instead of buying a new sign for $1.79 he just taped over the word SALE with some masking tape and wrote the word RENT in magic marker.

 

If you were his tenant imagine how fast this guy will spend money to fix a problem?

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