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Real Life Recap

Posted by Mark | Filed under Life

I’ve not been post­ing any­thing for a while because… Well, I just have not felt like it which is not to say I haven’t had any­thing to talk about. Today, I decided to update the world at large about what I have been upto in my lit­tle slice of it.

• We sur­vived the tor­na­dos and hail that hit our area a week ago. Our apart­ment and cars were not even get dam­aged by the storm. Below are a few links to some of the stores online about what happened.
  • Press-Citizen.com | Tor­nado Coverage
  • USATODAY.com — Iowa tor­nado dam­age tops $12 million
  • Radio Iowa: Emer­gency calls from Iowa City tor­na­does released
  • CNN.com — Tor­na­does rip through east­ern Iowa, killing one — Apr 14, 2006
  • FOXNews.com — Fun­nel Clouds Reported in Iowa Tor­nado Threats — U.S. & World
• Last week­end, we replaced Ariesna’s car (1992 Ford Escort, aka Ghost) with a 2002 Volk­swa­gen Golf (aka Grace, aka Gra­cie). The really odd part about get­ting the new car? Even though it’s a replace­ment for Ghost; Ariesna has been let­ting me drive it the most. Appar­ently, this is at least partly due to the amount door dings her old car suf­fered through in her office’s park­ing lot but it still seems strange to me. Then today, the deal­er­ship called me back ask­ing me to come in and sign a new finance con­tract on the car. Why? Because they found me another offer which would drop the inter­est rate by 1.25 points! Now that’s what I call ser­vice. So a big thanks goes out to Carousel Motors for the excel­lent service.
• Last week­end, Ariesna and I looked at a house. But it was too expen­sive for the amount of work required to make it a home we’d want to live (namely a musty base­ment and some bad remod­el­ing in the fam­ily room, din­ing room and kitchen). We showed up about 15 min­utes early for the show­ing and the real­tor showed up just short of 15 min­utes late. He did even­tu­ally call to let us know he was run­ning late… 5 min­utes after he was sup­posed to be there. I was ini­tially a bit under­whelmed by the guy. But when he finally got there and let us into the house; he let us do our own look­ing around with­out try­ing to pres­sure us and lis­tened to the com­ments we had about the house to get a bet­ter idea of what we were inter­ested in.

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