I’ve got pictures up from the inspection today. They’re in my gallery. I’ve got most of the commentary done, except on the video, but the video is probably the best view of the house, although you’d better be on broadband to view it.
I’m working on a “walkthrough” in iMovie complete with voice over and [...]

We made an offer on another house on Monday, and the sellers accepted it today.
This house is in Shady Grove Village, and the DSL isn’t super hot, but it’s doable at 1.5/256 – I need to call Speakeasy and see if we can do better on the upload speed.
The house is sort of a fixer-upper. [...]

we had no chance at the house. Another offer came in with no contingencies at all, not even a financing contingency. We had no chance. I’m seriously considering giving up on buying a house at all. Every house we even consider is either already under contract, or has 300 offers on [...]

Michael and I went to see a nice house in Millrace yesterday. We ended up making an offer on it. But there are 6 offers total, so we’ll see who gets the offer. We included an escalation clause to give us a better chance, but we’ll see. The offers were presented [...]

Michael has spent the last two days tearing apart our file server. He’s just now installing FreeBSD on it. Maybe I’ll get to use my home directory in a few hours. We’ve spent most of the time copying the data to backup media.
I spent the last two days deleteing and rearranging files [...]