Follow up and miscellany

I never did follow up on a couple postings and I feel that now's a good time. Starting with the old house, my former residence. One day in, ummm... November or December? Oh brother... well, let's say November. My (former) roomie said that the roof was gone and I should go take a look. Now, she didn't mean the shingles. No... no, they weren't planning to re-roof the house. She meant, literally, that the roof was GONE. I never had a chance to get a picture of it in the daylight. But I drove by that evening and sure enough... if you'd been standing in the house looking up you'd see sky.
Then, a couple days before Christmas, she mentioned that the house was torn down. I haven't followed up at all. I mean, as far as doing a drive-by to look at the dirt or rubbish or whatever. But I want to. Maybe it's already cleaned up and they're starting on a new building. The neighbors on both sides were very disappointed about the whole thing. They've lived there for years. Long enough to see the little Christmas tree in the front yard grow to its' current (if it's still standing) mighty stature. Admittedly, that was the one thing nobody would miss. You can't believe how many pine needles that tree put out in our yard and the neighbors and probably across the street! Yeah, that's all I know about that.

I never did have the heart to go back to Discount Tires and get the rotation I needed on the Neon! It's okay since I'm driving the Contour for a couple more months until I switch the insurance back again. Anybody wanna buy a '99 Ford Contour?

West Seattle has turned out to be a nice area to live in. It's true what 'they' say. I'm still not convinced I'm in the best living situation but it'll do for now. Oh! The window leak... that happened only because of the extreme rain / wind storm we had. It's never leaked before or since so unless we get record-breaking rain I think I'm okay. The carpet seems to have dried out fairly well but it needs to be cleaned. It's dis-colored where it got flooded. Of course, it was dirty water leaking in. I'm assuming it will shampoo right out.

My Christmas drive to Oregon went well. I truly enjoyed spending time with the family again. It was a whirlwind of a trip and I'm ready for a 'real' vacation now. I think the lack of sleep and eating all that unhealthy food (and so much of it) contributed to my being sick. I managed to work today and if I can make it through tomorrow then I'll have the weekend to recover. I'm not sick, like contagious, but it's more of a stomach thing. I have issues and holiday food is a big contributor.

Hmmm... that's all I can think of. I have the house to myself this evening and it's been nice. WOW! It's 9:00. No big deal but the last time I looked, which seemed like 10 minutes ago, it was around 7:45.

G'day