Well we have a place to live all set up after farting around for a month or so looking for someplace to call home. We got word this afternoon that the people that had the house in Air Park decided to go with someone else instead of us which was kind of disappointing because the place was so nice. It sounded like almost a sure thing after we went to look at it. Too bad. It was a little bit small though and the drive was way too far for Jessica to make all the time so it’s probably for the best. Since we finally got the ok from the current landlord to stay where we are at for a little extra time we are going with the house in Roca that Jessica’s friend rents out. We went and looked at it tonight and it has a lot more space than I thought it would have even if the layout is a little weird which isn’t unusual with an old house that has been added on to. The two car garage is nice but I’m going to have to find a snowblower for this winter because there is no way in hell that I’m going to try and scoop enough snow to clear a path to the street in order to park in it. Still, it will be great to have someplace out of the elements where I can go tinker around. I need to get DSL and satellite hooked up though and I’ve never had either. Satellite seems like such a pain in the ass and dealing with the phone company to get DSL hooked up is such a pain in the ass too. It will work out in the end I guess.

Football! I’m going to buy the pay per views this year since I actually have the box to do it instead of trying to find the games for free on the net which never works or listening on the radio. They cost a fortune but it’s something that I enjoy and hey, what the hell… it’s only money. Why the hell do I go to work if I only ever spend my money on stuff that sucks? We want to go to a game this year but I am thinking about trying to go to the final Big 12 Championship in Dallas instead of going to a lame game like South Dakota. It would be awesome if it was Nebraska vs. Oklahoma in the Cowboys new stadium to close out Nebraska’s final year in the conference. It would be even more fun if we didn’t get our asses handed to us and we won the damn game for once instead of losing at the end!

We are still waiting to hear back about the house in Air Park, they got a few more applications from people to rent it so now it won’t be until Friday before they have a decision after first saying that they would know Tuesday, then Thursday. At least if we don’t make the cut there then we won’t have to look that far for a place anymore. The lady that owns the house where we are at now has broken her silence and said that we can stay an extra month so that puts the house in Roca that Jessica’s friend owns back in the running again. It’s not as nice but it splits the commute to work more evenly and has a fenced in yard and 2 car garage. Costs a fortune to heat and cool though. I was correct that they are planning to let the bank foreclose on the place where we are at now. How the hell did I know that? Maybe because I had to do it myself when I couldn’t sell my place either during my divorce. It was either that or declare bankruptcy. At least it was a VA loan so everyone got their money.

I’m going to have some trouble in this class I’m taking. The class is “Investments”. I’m only a couple days into it and there’s a lot of algebra that they take for granted that I know. It’s been a few years since I’ve taken my algebra classes and I’m definitely rusty on it. I’ll just buckle down I guess and push through it. It’s tough.

Just when things don’t seem to be going all that well sometimes things seem to fall into place the way that you want them to. First off we finally got in to see the house that was for rent on the other side of the block from us in Hickman and it was just awful. I was afraid I was going to get AIDS from a random discarded hypodermic needle or something. The place was just disgusting. If we were to move in there it would take weeks of cleaning before it was livable, there was mouse crap on the shelves and disgusting grime everywhere. They must have used some fancy photoshop work on the pictures that they had posted for it online because it wasn’t even close. We didn’t completely rule it out though until we started finding fleas on us though just from walking through the place. NO WAY.

After that we were starting to accept that we might have to get an apartment as a last resort since nothing was really coming up that was worth a damn that didn’t cost a fortune. That was a pretty big deal since Jessica said that she would leave me before she moved into an apartment (she wouldn’t really leave me, she just hates apartments that bad). We started looking again online and I checked Craigslist again for the thousandth time and came across an ad for a place in Air Park in West Lincoln. Air Park is the area that used to be the family housing for the old Lincoln Air Force Base, and they have built some new developments there as well. Anyway it is great for my commute, but unfortunately terrible for Jessica’s. I was almost going to say no it’s no good because of that but we called and set up a time to take a look anyway. It’s a split level house, probably only 6 or 7 years old. Holy crap the place was nice, way nicer than the rent amount they are asking for. He said he bought it as a foreclosure about 3 years ago and fixed it up which is probably why he can afford to rent it so cheap since the mortgage payments aren’t as high as most places in town. They are getting married and moving to Omaha and either wants to sell the place or get it rented ASAP, whichever comes first. They were super cool people and of course we were interested in renting it so I hope it all works out, he just has to check our our credit and references and stuff and will let us know tomorrow. It looks like an awesome place to live and the utility bills are way lower than they are in the old house where we are living now so if we did get it we would be saving a ton of money there as well. Cross your fingers, something might actually work out in an awesome way at the right time for once! I’m gonna give it a Caddyshack nanananananananana if that helps.

Back at work, back in school. I can really see the allure of not working for a living after being off for 9 days and not really doing anything the whole time. I don’t see the allure of being a dirty homeless person though so the key here is to become independently wealthy somehow, or have Jessica become independently wealthy and I can be a kept man… why didn’t I ever think of this before?