After a couple years of waiting for people and governments, our house will actually get started soon! The bank put some money from the loan in our checking account today, so I wrote the builder the check for 10% of the cost so that he can get started! It should arrive on Saturday if the Post Office is efficient (which I don’t really expect, but is possible), which should mean that groundbreaking could start as early as next week!
Things to check out when you’re bored today:
And I’m sure there are more out there somewhere…
We have a building permit!
We sign the contract with the builder this Sunday, most likely.
Much happiness and joy!
I’ve decided not to run for Town Moderator. I don’t want to run as a write-in candidate against somebody who’d I’d be happy to have in there.
In other news, I drew a network diagram today, just to make sure I knew what IPs were where in our increasingly-complicated home network. (The router for VoIP adds another layer of NATing, and there’s now the cable-modem-to-phone-router subnet, the phone-router-to-PCPC subnet, and the main home subnet.)
Happiness! Voice-over-internet box came (it’s a full-fledged Linksys router, in fact), and have dial tone. Please change your contact info for us to be our new phone number: 774-490-7314.
Well, the Telegram reports that someone is in fact running for the Town Moderator position. So now I’ve got to decide whether I want the position badly enough to try running a real write-in campaign, where there’s an opponent.
Online tracking information indicates high probability of me getting my voice-over-IP box today. I’m excited to play with that and cancel my traditional phone service.
I’ve now read through Town Meeting Time: a Handbook of Parliamentary Law, a book so tough to get that even Amazon doesn’t carry it. (The Charlton Public Library does, however.)
If news reports tonight and tomorrow confirm nobody is officially on the ballot running for Charlton Town Moderator, I’ll likely officially announce my candidacy as a write-in candidate to the press (or at least to the Charlton Gazette for inclusion in their April candidate profiles).
Okay; I’m trying opening up the wiki at cooperjr.name to allow editing by any logged-in user. Feel free to browse around and add anything that you think might be useful to have at our site.
Here’s the news from my mom:
Dad called to find out about your building permit. He was told it was
not ready, and it has a date stamp of March 4th (even though he has a
receipt dated February 7th). The building inspector had some kind of
accident and broke his ribs, so they don’t know when he’ll be back at
work. Dad tried to call the builder, to see if he can push something
along, since there is a part-time associate building inspector, but
there was no answer. The good news is, your address is 194 Berry
Corner Road.