Our First Viewing

What a shit hole!

But seriously... what a shit hole!

The pictures were nice. There was a cool deck on the side of the house. There was a swimming pool in the back. It was fenced in by a nice tall wooden fence.

We got there...

The deck was so rotten I thought I was going to fall through. The swimming pool collapsed and was rusting on the ground. The tall fence was almost as rotten as the deck and was missing in large sections.

And that's just the start!

Add to that the fact that the wiring was terrible and the house is probably minutes away from burning down, and a small little detail of the roof needing to be replaced.

Punchline?

Here 'tis

The asking price was just shy of $220,000.

The decor gave us such a nice warm and fuzzy feeling as well. The mountain of neon beer signs. The poster of a naked woman in the master bedroom closet. The monster truck in the driveway.

Our little duplex is a huge step up from that little house.

But...

Who cares, we viewed a house. We are officially in the house hunting game. We have real estate agents trying to get our business. People are starting to compete for us. We're still not going to be interested in making any offers until after the honeymoon at the earliest, but we are officially in the housing market game.

It is wicked exciting.

I was just going to write a little bit about the grande plan to dump cable television in favor of the internet. The only things I really watch on TV are Bruins games, Red Sox games, South Park, and Family Guy.

South Park is available on line through the South Park studios website. Family Guy (I believe) is available through Hulu. (sorry no links. Rob is lazy. Rob is also unsure if he spelled Hulu right but doesn't care)

Major League Baseball and the National Hockey League both offer television broadcast packages online. I was going to say that we could order up those two packages (they even have a bundle where you can buy them both!) and plug my laptop into the television and say screw you cable.

Unfortunately black out restrictions apply.

DAMN IT!

I can't live without NESN.