Further House porn

Ok, I'm going quietly nuts over this house. Why? In addition to the fact it is a 3-unit house in what looks to be great shape with beautiful hardwood floors, nice kitchens, cool detail bits, etc. It also has a big yard and a seven bay barn in the back. And it is going for cheap enough I could probably just about cover the mortgage just with the rental income from the other two units.

Augh! And I'm just going to have to watch it slip by.

Work, or the impending lack off

So I realize I may not have stated this clearly here, so I'm posting about it.

I'm currently staring down the barrel of unemployment. My job has been outsourced to India, and while it has been extended once, another extension is unlikely at this stage. So next Friday the 25th is my last day. I have another 4 weeks of severance pay, and I'm being paid for my ~2 weeks of unused vacation time. So I'm not in horrible shape just yet.

However I am very nervous and edging closer and closer to flat out scared. My job's skillset is not terribly portable, and my other work skills are kinda odd and specialized, so I'm not having much luck finding job prospects (the fact I've been too stressed to consistently look hasn't helped that).

For the last few months, and especially now the stress of this has been bleeding into everything else in my life, and I have been less and less capable of keeping it separate and keeping my mood up. So if I seem even more quiet or depressed or whatnot lately, that is why.

Fleet Update

The current state of the Blertco fleet
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