Today's the day that we close on a plot of wooded land out in the country. Sure, we own the land our current house is on, but 1/10 of an acre seems more like a technicality - a house has to sit on something, after all - it doesn't really feel like Land. In a few hours, we'll own acres. Sweet.
We're going to put up a strip mall, with a nail salon, a Subway, two dry cleaners, and a space that will rotate between ice cream shop, stationary store, tax prep service and antique store. No skateboarding.
Congratulations on the purchase! I’m hoping you’ll plant some larches among the pines to make some art that can be seen from the air. Not in this shape, of course.
Sweetness: congratulations.
Don’t forget the obligatory Bland Chinese Food restaurant.
Given the location , I think it’s probably zoned BBQ-only
OT – do you know of a way to filter authors (not comments) at Balloon Juice? For some reason the only people I care to read there are John, Tim F (who rarely posts) and DougJ (depending on the topic). Sadly that’s only about 15% of the content these days.
This isn’t exactly what you wished for, but you can at least view a single author’s posts if you know their author id.
John Cole
Tim F.
Michael D
DougJ
Anne laurie
Dennis G
Randinho
Mistermix
Kay
E.D. Kain
Angry Black Lady
Tom Levenson
Freddie deBoer
Sarah Proud and Tall
SteveM
Libby Spencer
Zandar
Soonergrunt
holy crap. that’s too many.
It’s funny too how many gaps there are in the sequence, as though John has created a lot of author accounts that were never used or deleted.
I mean, Tim F. is #8? He’s been there since 2005. Who are the missing 6?
the pie filter used to have the ability to filter the front page, but no longer. not sure when i took that out.
i’ll see about putting it back in.
Nice Thomas Pynchon ref.
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Maybe a government-funded skateboard park? And frozen yogurt, the kind where you serve yourself, sprinkling nuts and stuff on top and then they weigh it for your price.