{"id":17411,"date":"2012-12-06T11:07:31","date_gmt":"2012-12-06T15:07:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/?p=17411"},"modified":"2012-12-06T11:07:31","modified_gmt":"2012-12-06T15:07:31","slug":"shrinkage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/?p=17411","title":{"rendered":"Shrinkage!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Businesses rely on data published by the US Postal Service to validate the addresses customers give them. The data is used to correct misspelled or mistyped addresses, update changed addresses, to locate addresses for deliveries, etc.. But, that data isn't published in real time, it's published monthly. And much of the data has a legal shelf life of many months. So, if you move to a brand new street, your address is going to be flagged as invalid by pretty much everybody who does electronic address verification, for a long <\/em>time. Deliveries will be delayed, people will have to call for directions, some companies will simply refuse to accept your address, etc.. And who knows how long it will take before we show up on any of the online map apps... Good times. <\/p>\n

And why didn't the developer start working on getting a street sign until we moved in? It's probably for the same reason we still don't have cable access despite starting the building process 9 months ago. As an interim fix, Mrs wrote our street name on a big piece of posterboard and I've got it propped up against a hay bail at the start of the road. I bet the neighbors hate it. But they have nobody but the developer to blame for that. <\/p>\n

Also, the garbage man has skipped us for the third week in a row. Last week, we called and complained, twice, and they sent a special truck out just for us. This week, they missed us again. It's a shame the one company has a monopoly on garbage pickup.<\/p>\n

No, no cable or internet yet. The developer is still dragging his feet about getting the easement signed over to the cable company so the cable company can lay their lines. Mrs. is about to exceed the monthly data limit on her cell phone's 'personal hotspot' feature. On the bright side, I have a nice new house-wide gigabit network all set up and waiting. It's doing a fine job getting MP3s from the NAS to my iTunes laptop, and my stereo sounds really good in the new house. Actually, everything sounds good in the new house - it has the acoustics of a hi-tech theater; you can hear everything that happens anywhere in the house perfectly clearly. Strange.<\/p>\n

I had to re-caulk all of the crown molding on the first floor this past weekend. The dry air from the furnace is affecting the wood in the molding, as it will, and the original caulk just wasn't able to handle the change. I just cannot tolerate those ever-growing gaps between the molding and the ceiling.<\/p>\n

We got our first mortgage bill for the new house yesterday. So this will be our first month paying two mortgages. Old house has an interested couple who are wary of committing to buying our house until they sell their current house. They're also wary of making a contingent offer for some reason. Luckily, Mrs. also got a new job yesterday, so that will lessen the financial pain considerably.<\/p>\n

I don't remember the last move we did being such an agonizing, never-ending series of problems. This one is dragging and dragging and dragging. I long for a day when I will not have a long list of urgent house-related tasks to get through. Mrs. has a list far bigger than mine. <\/p>\n

Bitch. Moan. Whine.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Businesses rely on data published by the US Postal Service to validate the addresses customers give them. The data is used to correct misspelled or mistyped addresses, update changed addresses, to locate addresses for deliveries, etc.. But, that data isn't published in real time, it's published monthly. And much of the data has a legal […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17411","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-project-house"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17411","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17411"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17411\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17411"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17411"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17411"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}