Maintenance stuff came up and we’re going to pass…
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sujal
11/24/2008
Newsweek’s Daniel Gross explains the Consumer Price Index (here’s the official BLS site) in a very simple video. I could do without the goofy sound effects, but it’s a good, 2 minute explanation of how the government tracks inflation.
Per David Simon’s Berkeley talk, though, the video doesn’t go into why this matters. Perhaps they’ll cover that in the next installment of the Economics 101 series.
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June 14th, 2004 at 9:12 am
I’m sorry to hear that. Maintenance can be a pain in the ass, as we’re learning (ask Bram how many outlets he has had to replace and/or ground in the 2 weeks we’ve had our place). I am sure you will find an excellent house in the near future.
June 14th, 2004 at 9:32 am
that sucks, I was pretty excited for you guys. On the bright side, I think that garden would have become a jungle in no time, and that you would have become lost in it every day, and Hedi would have had to send Clice out to “hunt you down”.
June 14th, 2004 at 9:54 am
Yeah, we were talking about that… Heidi was all set to buy a gardening book and figure out how to maintain the various flowers that are there.
I think in the end it just came down to the fact that the roof repair was going to need to happen this year… it was too big a hurdle for us to deal with on top of buying the house. Sucks, but we’re trying to scramble now and find the next “perfect” house.
June 14th, 2004 at 11:47 am
so sad…
so, so sad….
But we’re going to find a way better one anyway! And those grapes — they were probably sour.
June 14th, 2004 at 12:42 pm
Heidi - when you figure out how to keep flowers going, please come out and help me. Our backyard has a lot of plants but I can’t tell which were intenional and which are just giant weeds.
You guys will find a better house, but I’m going to tell you what our realtor told us when we first met her. There is no perfect house unless you build it yourself. All houses have issues and you have to decide which ones you can live with.
June 14th, 2004 at 12:59 pm
well, hold the phone… the house is back in play….
June 14th, 2004 at 1:42 pm
all you gotta do is get them to reduce the price of the house. You should be able to get about half of the value of a new roof taken off the price if the inspection revealed the roof had less than a year, or was at “the end of useful life”
June 14th, 2004 at 4:56 pm
we’re real sorry to hear that. I think it was because sara and I saw it. we must be bad luck.
June 17th, 2004 at 9:25 pm
There’s no breath holding here… Tamar — the plants that win over — those are the ones that stay. this is my general rule. Some may CALL them weeds. But nah — they are beautiful in my eyes. Tee-hee. This is how scary a gardener I am. My two attempts at gradening: 1. I bought a bunch of little edging plants. I happily planted and watered them. When I went out of town for a week, someone MOWED them down.
2. I love irises (hint, hint, my birthday is on Monday), so I planted bulbs one October. Only one bulb broke through the surface of the ground, and only by about 2 inches. Needless to say, there were no flowers.
3. Finally, when I did one of my planting ventures, don’t recall which of the two, I bought a gardening book. I’m a nerd and I need books for EVERYTHING. So I was reading how humus is good for your garden. I thought, cool, I have humus in thr fridge. Of course, I was thinking humous (how do you spell it — see here’s the problem — the chick pea stuff — it’s actually correctly pronounced hyu-mus — and humus is dead leaves, etc: mulch) So me and gardening, it will be an interesting experiment. It’s like me and cooking. Just ask Sujal, Pat, and Nisha.