MAJOR UPDATE!!!!1

We closed today!!!!!

Apparently, Zell was Crazy Back Then, Too...

POT LIQUOR OR POTLIKKER?

"Dear Sir:

I always thought The New York Times knew everything, but obviously your editor knows as little about spelling as he or she does about Appalachian cooking and soul food.

Only a culinarily-illiterate damnyankee (one word) who can't tell the difference between beans and greens would call the liquid left in the pot after cooking greens 'pot liquor' (two words) instead of 'potlikker' (one word) as yours did. And don't cite Webster as a defense because he didn't know any better either.

Sincerely,
ZELL MILLER
Lieutenant Governor State of Georgia"

The Best and the Brightest

Jon Stewart explains why the Bush administration has hired so many graduates of Regent University Law School, a fourth tier law school.

Do Over

Well, our closing was canceled yesterday because the mortgage broker didn't have all of his paperwork. Retry today at 4 PM.

Wallet's a Little Lighter

Just ordered the check from E*Trade for our closing on Monday. It's a pretty nice tidy sum. I guess I can party on my dirt after the closing, so it's a fair trade.

Keep your fingers crossed!

Jordan to Illinois

Not exactly like Mike, but Jordan's son Jeffrey will be heading to the University of Illinois, the Chicago Tribune and Champaign News-Gazette are reporting. Jordan is considered a solid player, but not a superstar in the making. He will be a preferred walk-on, meaning that he will be guaranteed a roster spot and the school won't lose a scholarship. Of course, it doesn't hurt Illinois that he'll suit up for the team, for countless other reasons.

Closing

Monday.

Dirt Update

I realized I haven't provided an update on our house. We were originally scheduled to close on our lot on Friday, April 27. But we had a delay in getting our house plans to our mortgage broker, so he's had to scramble to get an appraisal. Plus, our seller, who asked for us to close on April 27, had to change the closing date. So it looks like we're closing next week. Cross your fingers.

We haven't moved any dirt, but we did get our tree permit. So that's a great step. In the meantime, we've been tinkering with house plans. We're really close to a floor plan and our architect is furiously working through elevations, too. Here are some of our ideas...




These designs are getting there, but not final. We also want to reduce the size of the house to a certain extent, too. Also, we're starting to look at finishes and bathrooms. We'll have more updates soon...

Trader Joe's -- Better than Expected

$33. That, and some loose change, is what my two full grocery bags cost me at Trader Joe's new Midtown Atlanta location yesterday. I got two bottles of wine, some tomato soup, a package of sliced pepper jack cheese, some yogurt, crackers and sundry other products. Maybe I'm missing something, but I think that's pretty good for the amount of food we got, especially considering we had alcohol, too.

Granted, the booze was Two (and a Half) Buck Chuck.

Is it sad that I enjoy my wife's favorite website...

even though it is a catty, celebrity oriented site full of only ugly pictures of women? Some sample pics...