So, strike that last post, reverse it.

We ended up walking away from that house, towards a nicer house.  The last house, we were forced to work with Haliburton’s Relocation company, which became annoying very quickly.  While the (latest) house doesn’t have a pool, it is on the end of a cauldisac and has lots of windows overlooking the park and lots of trees.  So barring any major event, we think this is the house that we will be moving into June 12.

For your photo viewing pleasure:

2008 05 New House

Now, remember, not all of our junk is in it. I took the pictures while the inspector what doing his thing.

See, the last two houses we put offers on, Jenni sent out big mass emails.  She has not done so yet with this one, due to how the other two turned out.

Certain decisions in life are like that - the decision causes you to toggle between extreme excitement and extreme panic. Buying a house is one of those events.

I can say with pretty high confidence that as of this past weekend, Jenni and I have bought a house in Fort Worth!

Woah, it is like we are all grown up with ‘real’ jobs and a house now. Maybe that is a part of the freaking out. We won’t move in till mid June, so we have a bit of time yet. I will post more pictures once we actually move in and make it our own a bit. Right now, the pictures certainly have an old person feel to them seeing as the couple we bought the house from is at least in their 60s. Pool Party at my place this summer!

Per Amanda’s request…

This past weekend, Jenni and I went to the Rahr & Sons Brewing Company in heart of Fort Worth. Amazingly, they give away free beer and a tour of the brewery from 1-3 pm every Saturday. This isn’t you typical free beer “samples” either - you bring your own glass/pint/mug/stein and they will fill you up four times before they cut you off. Their setup is simply in an old warehouse that is about a third full of brewing equipment. Everyone packs in and gets their (free) beer and listens to live music - an all around good time. Not sure how they do it exactly, but I’m certainly going back.

Rahr & Sons Brewing Free Brew and Tour Breakdown:

The Good

Free beer #1, free beer #2, free beer #3, and free beer #4. Yum. Good music, lots of people, bring a driver - after four of these suckers you are gonna need it.

The So-So

You end up waiting the the beer line for most of the two hours. You pretty much get a beer, get about 1/3 of the way done, then hop back in line so that by the time you are done with your beer, you are at the front of the line begging for more. This is made better by the live music and the social aspect of it all.

The Ugly

Two bathrooms + Hundreds of people + Four Free Beers each = really long lines for the bathroom. To make sure you don’t explode, you need to think ahead when you get that spider sense goes off that it’s tinkle time and jump in line right away.

Today was an off-work Friday for me.  So what did I do?  Ran some errands, and one of them was the the lovely Walmart that we have had such good luck at before.  I just had a to pick up a couple things, one of which was windshield wiper fluid.  As I’m going through the self checkout, I scan the windshield wiper fluid, and the machine says

“Verification Needed, Please Wait for Assistance”.

Confused, I’m wondering if the weight sensor messed up or if I scanned it twice or something.  The cashier walks over, looks at me, and says

“You are 18, right?”

“Uhm, yeah…”

She proceeds to type in her employee code, to verify that I am “of age” to purchase windshield wiper fluid.  What…the…?  I thought checking ID and limiting how often you can buy Sudafed was a bit extreme.  Somewhere out there is a devastated 16 year old with a very dirty windshield.

Three weeks into my new job at Lockheed Martin Aeronautics and things are going very smoothly.

As it turns out, two other Hope grads started the same date I did, but at the Lockheed Martin. Both Ben and Amanda accepted positions there recently. So including Kevin who works at Lockheed Martin, that brings the number of Hope grads from my class working at Lockheed Martin up to at least 4. Considering my engineering class graduated about 14 people, that is a pretty large portion. Not to mention one of our engineering professors from Hope now works at Lockheed Martin Missiles and Fire Control as well.

So yeah, I’m a working man. Now my dad should be satisfied that I am “putting my money towards his social security fund”.

Hey Dmitri….slacking on your quota!