Tubasaluki: Quoting music since 2003

One of the awesome things about living in Salem is that the housing is cheap. Lets do a little comparison, shall we?

My house is about 1,000 square feet. @ beds, 1 bath, detatched garage. Needs some work, but is livable. Its $27,000

A house out in Lake Stevens that is 780 square feet, with 2 bed, 1 bath, has a detatched garage and a car port. Decent. But, costs $225,000.

Sweet action for me! Taking advantage of the situation, I have purchased the home that I’ve been living in for the past six months. I’m fairly excited.

Never mind the fact a closing that was scheduled for 45 minutes took over 3 hours (thanks, bank!) I’m excited, even if I did dream about signing my name over and over last night.

(A few people have asked, “what does closing entail?” Answer: signing more paper than you know what to do with. Even Satan is like, “woah…they have one signature for their SOUL,”)

So, the house is mine. I can make improvements to it as I see fit. Increase the value and hopefully make a bit of a profit in a few years.

In other news…

Since making my inspiring, I’m going to run a half marathon post I have…um…been really lazy. I’d like to think of it as the Seattle Mariners season in a nutshell. I get my self all psyched up, ready to go, and then decide I have a better way to pass the next three hours than actively trying to win a baseball game. I did have a toe scare though, where I thought it was broken. It isn’t, but not wanting to aggravate the injury, I stayed off of it. Next week will be better though.

Fun fact: I actually took part in a school board meeting. South Central was debating to add a cross country team. Guess who was the only one in the room to know how many were on a varsity team? This guy. I’m a champion. (They did not add the sport, by the way)

Random note: You know you’re white when the sales lady at work points out your whiteness. She says I need to get outside more (fair point) and get tan. Oh how I wish that was possible. I don’t get tan. I do become a slightly less shade of pasty white though. You can tell when I roll up my sleeves. There’s a difference, but nothing that the ladies will go “Wow, look at that tan guy!”

In a totally unrelated story, sunglasses sales in Salem have gone up 25% since January 14. (Ed note: Fact may have been made up)

I explained to our sales lady my predicament. I think I may be the first person she’s met that “burns and gets whiter”. At any rate, I have gone out and purchased my bottle of SPF 50 for the summer. If I’m not getting tan; I’m not getting cancer.

Thats all for now. You have fun out there, doing whatever it is you kids do. As long as its not on my lawn.

Now the only thing a gambler needs
Is a suitcase and trunk
And the only time he’s satisfied
Is when he’s on a drunk

Alan