I Shall Taunt You A Second Time!
Once again, we didn’t make it to the Queen’s exterior. Here is what she’s taunting us with day after accursed day.
Note the cracked and disintegrating board in the lower left corner (I know, it’s hard to see). I don’t know how this board escaped getting replaced when we had the siding repaired/installed. It is yet another annoying, time consuming project for me to complete before we can actually paint the Queen. On the upside, we have a nice sized stack of new, custom milled siding saved up for occasions like this.
And, in regard to the speculation as to what our “good news” is, here are some small tasty bits. First, my wife received a promotion and pay raise at work. For those of you not familiar with old house economics, this means:
[(Current Income + additional income) x A (where A= old home, A has a constant value of zero)] – B (B is current debt from all sources) = Net Worth.
That’s right, new sources of money have the same probability of escaping an old house as light does escaping from a black hole. On the positive side, spending cash is better than charging shit to your credit card, so is that our silver lining for today?
The official paperwork hasn’t been finished regarding the promotion, but it should go through in the next couple of weeks. I was reluctant to say anything until it was a done-deal because Fate is a cruel mistress; she giveth and she taketh away.
On a much smaller note, I recently sold a small watercolor painting. The actual dollar amount was small (1 small watercolor = 1 gallon of paint after paying the gallery its commission), but it was a nice ego stroking none the less.
There are still a few more “good” things in the works, so more on that later if/when they come to pass.
Note the cracked and disintegrating board in the lower left corner (I know, it’s hard to see). I don’t know how this board escaped getting replaced when we had the siding repaired/installed. It is yet another annoying, time consuming project for me to complete before we can actually paint the Queen. On the upside, we have a nice sized stack of new, custom milled siding saved up for occasions like this.
And, in regard to the speculation as to what our “good news” is, here are some small tasty bits. First, my wife received a promotion and pay raise at work. For those of you not familiar with old house economics, this means:
[(Current Income + additional income) x A (where A= old home, A has a constant value of zero)] – B (B is current debt from all sources) = Net Worth.
That’s right, new sources of money have the same probability of escaping an old house as light does escaping from a black hole. On the positive side, spending cash is better than charging shit to your credit card, so is that our silver lining for today?
The official paperwork hasn’t been finished regarding the promotion, but it should go through in the next couple of weeks. I was reluctant to say anything until it was a done-deal because Fate is a cruel mistress; she giveth and she taketh away.
On a much smaller note, I recently sold a small watercolor painting. The actual dollar amount was small (1 small watercolor = 1 gallon of paint after paying the gallery its commission), but it was a nice ego stroking none the less.
There are still a few more “good” things in the works, so more on that later if/when they come to pass.
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