In October I started to consult for Nextwave and these guys seem to have a lot of work. Today I went to Packet Video in San Diego for a site eval. Apparently there may be more travel down ...
I hooked up with Charles the electrician and spend half a day dropping CAT5 in to every place I have seen fit. I will likely need some more in the future but for now all rooms but the master ...
Keyon installed the Cisco Aeronet wireless link, now I finally have broadband at home! I will get rid of the EVDO Verizon service only because of the cost, the technology is great. I just don’t see why I ...
Yeppie came from Korea to stay a month or so. The guest room was already set up. It actually turned out nicer than my own bedroom and I just have my mattress on the floor whereas the guest ...
I got some help from Carlos and John. John provided his trailer to haul all furniture to the new house. Not only was the trailer half empty, after all was put in place the house was mostly empty. ...
Today was the final walk through and the house should close Tuesday or Wednesday. I will spend the weekend to do expense reports and to move money to my Wells checking so I can get the cashiers check next ...
I did not budge from my initial offer. The sales price was adjusted by the seller twice and slowly came close to what I wanted to pay. He dropped the price by $25.000 and was just another $5.000 ...
The Las Vegas real estate market was getting just a little slower but houses still sold for 98.5% of list price. Apparently others negotiated small price drops and I was asking for a big one. I ...
I made an offer today on a new house located about 5 miles from my current place. The new house is much larger, it is a custom build house on ¼ acre land. I saved some money over ...
Leslee was so nice to get my car registered as I just started a new project for NW.NET – all my previous cars had been relatively cheap to register. This time I needed to pay just over $1200 for ...
After a weekend in CA I decided to buy the almost new white Pontiac Grand Prix. It is a lot more car than I usually drive. To me luxury equipment are electric door locks. ...
I went with Jim to the Nevada Auto Auction, a dealer only event. I was looking for a small fuel efficient car like a Pontiac Vive or Ford Focus. No Vibe’s even so over 700 cars had been auctioned ...
FINALLY REIMBURSED FOR THE 2002 CHEVY CAVALIER by Michael
10/26/2005 at 07:58
After almost 7 weeks Farmers paid me for the loss of my car (see blog entry Sep 6th). This whole situation is more complicated than I thought. Apparently an accident like this may brake in to 3 ...
For lunch we went to Los Algodones. If you do not want to take your car to Los Algodones you can park for $3 a day right on the border on a guarded lot that is owned by ...
Early morning: This weekend I am going to Yuma to visit with Steve Gordon before he will leave the country. He does intent to go to Africa (Nigeria?) for a while later this month. The drive to ...
I got yesterday the long awaited title from Creed for my 1959 Series Rover and will soon (sooner or later) start completing the vehicle. It does not run but has almost all the parts needed. It will require ...
I spend almost a day to flash and reflash my phone. I found a neat tool written by dmc874 at http://davesipaq.com/ that allowed me to not only patch together the different versions of software I liked, I was also ...
I bought a HP iPAQ 6315 PDA phone from eBay. Like all 6315 this phone is also locked to Tmobile when I got it. Fortunately it is very easy to unlock any iPAQ if you have a valid ...
I went to an auction as well as talked to regarding a new car. I decided to either get a Pontiac Vibe or a Scion xB. Both get well over 30mls/gal and this is a key selling point ...