We won’t be closing on the houses Monday as origianlly planned. Instead, it moves back one week. Without going into a ton of details, the problem is not ours, nor our buyers nor his lender. A lawyer is holding up the deal for reasons totally unrealted to any of us and our houses. A complaint has been filed with the bar association against said lawyer.
Fortunately, it should all be resolved next week. If not, there will be at least three parties filing large law suits against the idiot lawyer.
I was wondering if it would happen here, and it has: comment spam.
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Over the weekend, Sarah and I took the short drive to Stratford, Ontario, Canada, to see a couple of plays. On tap for us this year: Macbeth and The Count of Monte Cristo.
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This shouldn’t really come as a surprise, but there seems to be another security bug in Internet Explorer.
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Well, we are not happy at the moment. The Toyota dealer called Sarah to let her know that a Prius is available. However, they only have the next model up, not the base model. And, the dealer says, that is all Toyota plans on making this year.
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A quick huzzah to our friends on the birth of their baby girl.
We are finally reaching the end of our housing saga. Our buyer had the house inspected and that went fairly well, if odd, and all the paper work has been finalized.
We close on both houses November 1 and should be moving into to Parkdale that following weekend. We’re getting keys on the 3rd and the tentative plan right now is to move the race car, all its spare parts and the rest of the garage stuff Thursday and Friday and move in proper over the weekend.
We’re relieved to finally have everything set. Living in the unknown has been stressfull, but having set dates for when we replant ourselves should provide much comfort.
Time to pack. (Which the cat is not too fond of. He knows that something is up and isn’t sure if it’s good. But, oh, how he will love the new house.)
Facing a corprate mandated redesign at work, I decided to take the oppotunity to update our site to structurally meaningful and valid code, utilizing the latest in CSS to do so.
Corporate has provided templates and a code base which is old fashion tables in tables in tables with tons of spacer .gifs. I threw all of that out and started with just their dimensions and color palatte and recreated the site from scratch. My efforts have paid off.
We meet via a phone conference last week with the corporate web keepers and they were impressed with my work. At first they couldn’t believe that my pages didn’t use any of their images, since the look is nearly identical. They were further impressed with the numbers: their page – 32 kb, mine – 9 kb. Their total page weight (all images and code): 106 kb; mine: 32 kb. Total image they used: 60+; total images I used: 5.
They were impressed enough to ask if I minded sharing what I did with the vendor who created their original templates. Looks like I’ll be helping them rework the master corporate template that all the companies will be using.
Yes. If it’s gotta be corporate, at might as well be done right.
And, I’ve improved upon my own code. I had a brainstorm today that elliminated two entire styles, replacing them with simple decendent selectors. Smooth it is.
Tonight, Sarah and I accepted an offer on our house.
The potential buyer will have an inspection done in the next week, which should go well. Then it’s 30 days to closing. Hopefully, we’ll be moving right around Halloween weekend or the first weekend of November. We’ll see how it all plays out.
