Not sure about the out of town right now, Lee. But Wild Animal Park? That's an open invite. I nearly drove up there today just to sit and listen to the tour. Wanna go???

P-C, I'll be hurt and heartbroken if you don't mention my new tag, when that happens. I'm all sensitive and stuff.

Noted. As well as those who requested the opposite.

Cass has a new tag.

Car-ma for connie.

Nora, my Mom bought her house completely by word of mouth and with no agent except for certain legalities (which vary by state -- she's in NJ). It saved everybody money and made some flexibility with the moves (hers and theirs) really easy to manage... they sold her some furniture they'd built for the place, cleaned the gutters after the closing, one of them moved a date, things like that. It was also nice for the neighbors and Mom to alread know each other and the sellers felt good about that. Morris County is an incredibly tight market, probably nearly as bad as Sommerville.

It's a long shot but hey, bring THEM a pie. Maybe they're hoping to move in 4-5 months and feeling out the market now, you just don't know without asking.

Also -- Trudy and GC -- did you guys see the bit of the GG's where Robin Williams was introducing his kids and he said that one of them was a "Hello Kitty" expert? (Or something like that.)

I didn't see this. I'm not a Robin W fan at all, but his HK kid must be cool.

I AM a Robin fan. I'm dying of the cute.

That anti_elgorgo started friending scads of people who were in lj btvs related communities. I think that's when I left the Buffista lj community, and then went to the admin console and banned him/her/it. The journal is seriously freaky creepy.

The FAQ answer on banning someone from the admin console is here: [link]

Sadly, I think it only works if you haven't already been friended.

What you are doing when you ban is preventing the user from commenting in your journal. They can read just as they could before, and unless I'm sorely mistaken, you're still on their friends list.

Yes, but I think if they haven't friended you already, they can't (although it's been a long time since I did it, so I might be wrong).

anti_elgorgo had friended me, and I used the admin console to ban him/her, and now s/he's no longer listed in my "friend of" list.

Re: buying a house -- Annoying Co Worker is also a realtor and the other day when I was talking about getting a place to rent (which should happen soon) he started in on how I needed to buy a house and ran down all the ways I could get help as a first time home buyer.

A lot of it was state specific, but you should look into programs for first time home buyers.

It took a while for annoying co worker to accept that ,really, I don't want to own a house.

Trudy! I slutted 999's in your honor the other day. Smoooch! It's been so long since I have seen you.

t tacklehugs ms. holt