April’s Whinings

And the biggest news is we sold the swamp house! Hurrah! And we did it without a real estate agent in a housing market best described as in the toilet. hahahahahaha

What I did was, I posted all over the web offering either to sell or trade. Had a few trade offers but none in an area we thought would appreciate, although the Idaho property was very attractive. We finally accepted an offer to trade for a rental house in Thousand Oaks CA, just north of Malibu in Ventura County. It’s a lovely little house, it will be no problem to keep it rented. And when the market recovers, we can sell either the Vegas house or this one and live in the other.

And of course, pictures. It’s a small, older house in a very good neighborhood:

As mentioned back in October, we traded the Que for an Itasca Navion. Love it! Gets around 18 mph of diesel overall, and does much better on back roads than freeways. We went on a shakedown cruise to Niagara Falls, then continued on to Moody’s diner. We have driven it from VA to NV on I-70, then Fuzzy drove back to VA on I-40. We’ll be leaving VA for the last time sometime after Xmas and driving the TARDIS back to NV on I-10.

One of the best things about it is that it’s so small, at least for an RV, that we don’t need a towd. We can drag Daisy along behind on a dolly when going to the Dragon or other meets, but for general use we can just drive the TARDIS.

Reason we named it the TARDIS? Easy, it’s bigger on the inside than the outside.

Here’s a few pictures I took right after we returned from Maine:

Now about that hobby job.

I took what I thought would be a seasonal part time job at the local Sam’s Club, handing out samples in the demo department. Then it turned into a regular job with full time hours during the holiday season. Oh well, I didn’t really want that many hours but I like the idea of a regular hobby job. I like this one and now I don’t have to go look for another one next holiday season.

Here’s a few pictures from the trenches:

This is me, first time I wore holiday decor at work. I ran next door to WalMart on break to get the cute Santa hat.

This is a shot looking down the main grocery aisle. Just another warehouse store.

Two of my coworkers, Julie is in the demo department too and Mike is in maintenance. Lots of nice people work here.