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Go commercial or go home.

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This is a typical day for me but in a less lighter hearted way of course.

What has to be done? Is it a business day? What can't be done before 9 or after 5? What appointments have to be kept? What office work has to get done? Is someone coming? If so, when? It doesn't stop.

This happened to me just yesterday.

Chose a clothes washer at Home Depot.

Planned on it for a week.

Might have ordered it today.

No.

I had to put all the necessary information in my phone.

I had to do it yesterday.

So I attempt it and it's only at this point I read every word on the product page (aka "fine print").

Haul away and installation are not available for this item.

I can't haul away my clothes washer. I don't know how to do anything with plumbing.

So I said FI. I'll think about this another day.

And Thursday I edited an extensive list of financial notes that only existed on paper and accidentally threw it away.

I had worked on it for 3 days.

At this point I've used the time and energy I had allotted for the task. But of course now I have to start over.

Yeah, I got nowhere Thursday and Friday.

I did get a few projects done with the house last week had taken days and weeks of planning including logistics of course.

I did lots of deep cleaning and many garbage hauls.

But that kind of thing doesn't get the bills paid.

This is humor but the truth in it can be so frustrating at least to me.

Wish I had an Audi but will settle for a random shower.

BFN.

My best friend in college said something on this general topic that has stayed with me.

He said-

"Life was not meant for stasis".

@bernard Congratulations! It's gorgeous! And it looks great in situ for sure.

Well, it's like living in a mansion compared to my previous place. It's a double wide. It's huge for 1 person.

I have a kitchen of course, a dining room, a huge living room, cathedral ceiling, I can't touch the ceiling with my fingers in the bedrooms. I need to stretch another good 3" no matter how hard I try. I have a bedroom with attached bathroom. I have a second bedroom that is much larger than the master. The guest bathroom is his and hers and it has the washer and dryer.

I have a sun porch with a 2nd door to the outside. It the same tile floor as the rest of the mobile home except the bedrooms, storm windows of the kind of quality from time back, an Art Deco style wall light, a ceiling fan of the kind of build quality from time back, and even a a Bell System phone cord outlet. Lol.

It's a very strange floor plan.

Clearly the large bedroom should be my study.

But I did run into one major renovation issue.

There's a very slow but constant water leak.

It seems to me for various reasons that vent caps got worn out or destroyed that lead to, or led to, ducting for the bathroom ceiling fans.

I think this is because my bathroom ceiling fan's ducting has been removed (how anyone got access to it and why they took it away and didn't replace it? A complete mystery.

Unfortunately, the water had caused minor ceiling and wall damage.

Sadly, it's rotted some of the floor boards under the past its prime wall to wall bedroom carpet in both bedrooms.

There are 3 bad spots where your foot will actually sink down if you put your weight on them. One in the large bedroom opposite the bathroom wall, one in my bedroom opposite bathroom wall, and 2nd one in my bedroom in the far inside corner, where water travels in a line leading back to the position of the ceiling fan. Strangely, the ceiling looks brand new until you get to the far corner. Then obviously the water travels downward with gravity.

I'm not upset from a due diligence point of view.

We don't do licenced home inspections. I haven't heard of it. The sales are "as is" no matter what, and the sellers have no obligation or incentive to renovate anything. There could be a lien holders, in theory, but I never heard of anyone not paying cash. So there have never been lien holder requirements.

I don't have an estimate yet. I haven't had time. The rainy season is about to end. I plan to figure out what's happening and what will be involved in repairing the leak asap for sure.

I don't know what I'm going to do about the floor. I can't think about that now or my head will explode. The entire subfloor for this many sq ft can be replaced (and the work is made possible by the fact the structure is raised about 4 ft off the ground) for 7k.

I don't want to spend 7k. I might let the water damage "dry out" (except it won't really) as long as the floor will hold.

Unfortunately, the previous owners lived here for 3 months a year. Of course they factored this in (and their plan to sell- of course) when making maintenance decisions.

It is what it is.

The large bedroom's carpet makes it unusable except for storage for now. Carpet's great but it has to be taken care of on a daily basis. You can't ignore it for 9 months of the year. Clearly they were not going to replace it because they knew about the floor.

But I like it! It is c. 1972 and was the highest price point everything brand and options possible built in the original 1/2 of the park. It's one of the nicest mobile homes (I mean top 10 out of 400 not to brag about it) and the street is the nicest street in the park IMO.

It's kind of a "grande dame" complete with a little water damage. Lol.

It's like a '70's time capsule in a way. You know I love that.

Right now I'm doing security upgrades. I have a plan I spent months researching. I'm almost done. In fact I have 10 solar power perimeter stake lights arriving today.

The locks were just changed.

I have the keys. What other keys are floating around after all these years? There aren't any now.

But yes! My life here is much less stressful.

I mean just the fact of having electricity doesn't suck.

I like living alone.

Imagine- this is the first time I've done it.

It's all good.

Thanks for asking.

@Mik said:

You might have a salt water pool where you are. They have a lot less chemicals.

Maybe. It wouldn't be a municipal facility but you could be right. I'll check.

I meant to say something about our beaches.

Note: If a Florida vacation is somerhing you want to take or more likely take your family on then listen carefully.

The beaches here had more industrial pollution (development run off, agricultural run off, same as HI) than people wanted to think about way back when, let alone now.

There is red tide occasionally, although nothing like that one year when it made the beaches look like a hellscape.

People should also know the flesh eating bacteria found in ocean water that people might/ should associate with the Tropics is rampant up and down the west coast of Florida.

I don't know when it got this way, but the problem is pretty severe.

Yeah, and sharks.

I don't go to the beach.

Of course I did way back when, but never again.

@mik I want a fresh water swimming pool.

Swim, no pressure on joints, don't take a chlorine bath.

Well, that's one of my materialistic fantasies.

As to gym-- not going to one unless someone were to physically drag me to one and even then I'd escape and make a run for it (no pun intended).

As to exercise machines-- I like this idea. I want to do it. Now however my living room is filled with indoor furniture, patio furniture, 3 coffee tables I need to get rid of, and one bedroom door. I actually slammed it permanently open and unable to open more as well as close. In short, I bent the hinges.

I had to free it and store it in the living room. It's big (tall) and solid (not technically solid wood but made with thick and heavy wood panels).

I don't remember why I lost my temper.

@kluurs Please describe the right shoes and feel free to name brands and models?

I have a stand pair of NB. They're nothing to write home about...

In fact, they're pretty uncomfortable.

FA nothing.

It's a great fall day. It's raining. The low tonight will be 10 degrees lower than last night. The temperature will be dropping all day.

The high temperature was reached at 9 a.m. In other words, it didn't go above last night's low.

The lows for the next few days will be around: 65 tonight, 62 Monday night, 60 Tuesday night, and the forecast for Wednesday night is 59.

Then it will be between 59 and 64 for the next four days.

It's remarkable how the seasons both change in a subtle way and have periods of rapid change.

It doesn't usually get colder here until about Oct. 31.

I hope the weather is nice where you are and you're having a good day, everyone.

It was expunged?

I think it depends on the individual both in terms of a patient having the right of autonomy to make medical decisions for same in consultation with their doctors and also in terms of the fact that each individual's body is different and will behave differently.

But don't get me wrong. I don't want to be whistling past the graveyard.

I think I'll make a route in my neighborhood and try to work up to walking it 1x, 2x, 3x, 4x, and 5x a week.

We have a new renovated, heated pool.

I like it a lot, but getting that much chlorine absorbed into my skin doesn't help me at all, so I use it rarely.

@mark I was never a dancer either. Just wasn't. I don't know why.

Dance was the foundation of Madonna's work in music videos and concerts (and I guess still is but she's got a lot of injuries).

She went to Martha Graham's school. Martha Graham named her Madame X.

Hence, Madame X, her last great album.

I wish I could sing! Not pop music. Classical music and church music.

Lol.

I have now!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Future_Bites

I enjoyed this!

"... love is hell".

It can be for sure.

Electronic music won the race imho.

For instance, Madonna from when she was what they called a "beautiful nobody" working at Studio 54 until today has buried the saying- "Disco is dead" six feet underground.

Electronic music is pop music today imho.

Update. Not to be live streamed.

I read the OP.

Setting aside the politics, there's plenty of live streamed homicide now.

Oh, the pearl clutching... fear of a line being crossed.

Well, there's no line to cross.

Also, there used to be public executions, for a thousand years, and many more.

There used to be duels, too.

These people in the media suck.

@shirokuro Thanks!

Me

Yeah, kind of overly specific and overly vague for a thread title.

I'd like to post songs I'm listening to occasionally, and not clutter up the board.

Conversations, comments, and contributions very welcome!

Well, tonight I'm listening to a song in a rare genre for me- deep house- trance.

I've been listening to this song almost every day for a good month.

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See: the Audi R8, naturally aspirated, rear engine V-10. None of the German "Big 3" is building anything remotely as good now.

This song is not the best TBH but it's good.

I like it a lot, especially the lyrics.

I've heard this type of music in NYC, and some of it was unreal.

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This isn't AI. It isn't "fake". I said some of these people are serious people. Paula is a former diplomat. Her work is impeccable, even if I think her long form videos ramble on. She needs an editor.

But, yes, this is what it looks like when the admiration a nation has for a person implodes.