Toads Wild Ride
I just watched this hilarious video that makes fun of both techies and non-techies. It does have some vulgar language so make sure to not watch it at work or around kids (or around those that will be offended). I was laughing out loud watching this.
It does remind me that techies like me have no business talking to regular people.
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Watching this made me smile this morning so I thought I would share it.
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Two weeks ago I finished the beginners boxing class at KO Boxing. It was a very fun and enlightening class. And thanks to the tireless efforts of the training staff, I was completely exhausted after every workout!
That following week, I started the regular training class at KO Boxing. And from the workouts so far, they are going to be painfully hard. I struggle through every workout. And to make matters worse (or better), I have sore muscles that I never knew existed. I am also learning that my brain fails to function when it doesn’t have oxygen: I can’t seem to perform the combinations correctly as they are being called out. I am hoping that someday I will actually complete a whole workout, without stopping at all, and get all the combos correct.
For now, I am just happy that I am pushing myself harder than I have in a long time.
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I don’t know what it is but I keep finding new sources of information (websites, blogs and podcasts) to take up my time. Today I started listening to a podcast named Tweak. I have only listened to the first two episodes but they are pretty good. Based on the first episodes, the podcast is about starting a business and finding “tweaks” to keep it going.
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I just came across a great podcast that I am now addicted to. It is called Business Brink and is about Andrew Allgaier’s journey in creating his startup (http://www.zoomagent.com/). I have already watched the first 13 episodes and wish I had more time today to watch the rest.
Great, another source of information that I will be addicted to, just what I needed.
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House Hunt 2005 seems to be over. My wife and I recently purchased a brand new house (still not quite finished with it) and we are just waiting to close. So assuming we don’t run into any snags between now and closing we will be the owners of a nice new house.
Now this process was not as fun as I had hoped. We looked at a lot of houses (well, at least I thought it was a lot) in a short period of time. Some were definite no but most were maybe. The market here in Manhattan, KS is really crazy. One house we looked at went on the market (listed on MLS) at noon, I looked at it at 2pm, my wife went back with me at 3pm, and when our realtor (Stacey Hoffman, Hallmark Homes) called the listing agent there was already a couple making an offer. How is anyone supposed to find a house!!!
Another interesting problem we found was that realtors in town are not very nice to each other because they don’t need to be. What I mean by that is that since the market is so hot agents can just sell their listings to their own clients without ever letting other people see the house. We found this out because of a tip from one of my wife’s co-worker. They have some friends looking to upgrade and were planning on selling their house once they found one to move to. So they didn’t have it listed yet but it turned out they had a listing agent already (turns out to be a family friend). So we talked to the family to see about buying their house (it was in a nice neighborhood with what looked to be a good price tag). We then had our agent call their agent (Jim Ryan Jr., Ryan and Sons) to set up a showing. Their agent said he would not schedule it but would be willing to give our agent a referal instead. Put in laymans terms, he wanted to get whole 6% commission on the house instead of the 3% he would get as the listing agent. In other words, very selfish. We ended up seeing the house through the listing agent but we decided it wasn’t worth working with someone like this.
Now the non-fun can begin … MOVING. I am sure to post more about that whole process later. And I might have more on the process of buying a house if I can put my cursing and muttering into real english words.
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