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Getting ready to close the deal




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Originally uploaded by Suffering the Benz

We close on the new house tomorrow and I’ll be glad when that’s over. Of course, the real work starts from there. The move. Thanks to Lara, that probably won’t be as painful as it could be. She’s been ruthlessly efficient, building spreadsheets detailing what will go where in the new abode and ruthlessly discarding the crap we’ve accumulated during our 10 years in the house in Hardin Valley.

Today, we did the walk through, which gave us a final opportunity to measure things and plan what will go where. In this picture, Lara is standing on our dock with Hidden Cove in the background. It was pretty exciting to stand there and look around, and it took everything I had not to jump in the water to celebrate. There will be time for that tomorrow …

I added a few photos from today’s walkthrough to the Flickr set I created for the house. Hope to add more as we get moved in.

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A desecrated tree




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Originally uploaded by Suffering the Benz.

Lots of cool decorations dot our tree during the 17th annual tree desecration party while Sara Schwabe and the Yankee Jass band rage in the background (that’s their blurry bassist to the left). More photos of the festivities here.

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Paul gets his ash on …




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Originally uploaded by Suffering the Benz.

Paul regales the crowd at the tree party with tales of search engine marketing derring-do and HTML optimized for search nirvana. He also turned cigar ash into an art form, managing to draw several massive ashes on his cigar. Or is he just blowing smoke?