What Made you Smile/What Ticked you off Today?

[Exhuminator]

Smile: Got the biggest known stressor I'd been dreading all year finished finally; my wife and I moved to Milledgeville GA. A lot of factors made this scenario complicated, but we're in the new house now, with all our stuff here and our cats/dogs. I've always wanted to own forested land, with a nice solid home in the middle, and have accomplished it. One bucket list item taken care of.

Ticked: Piles and piles and piles of boxes left to unpack and integrate. Got to get my home office up and running tomorrow, no exceptions. Lots of yard work (and forestry) to do. A fair amount of home modifications (and small repairs) to deal with. Well, we won't be bored... ever again.

Ecstatic: All of this stuff can be done at a slow pace, which means I'll actually have time to game again.

[ElkinFencer10]

Our school's bookkeeper's son was murdered over the weekend. He went to North Carolina A&T, and he was apparently at a party when two people started arguing over something, and one of the people arguing started shooting but apparently has horrible aim and hit the bookkeeper's son and another girl - neither of whom were at all involved in the altercation - and killed both of them. Really bad day for Southern Vance High School; he was an alumnus of the high school, too.

[Ack]

While out riding on Sunday, my dad managed to get kicked by a horse twice in the ankle, breaking both the tibia and fibula bones in his left leg and causing both bones to break the skin at different angles. He spent last night in surgery and now has at least one nail holding his bones together. The docs said he probably won't be doing much walking until late December.

[samsonlonghair]

Ouch. Sorry to hear that, Ack. Hope your dad's recovery is speedy and relatively painless.

[Ack]

Ouch. Sorry to hear that, Ack. Hope your dad's recovery is speedy and relatively painless.

Hahaha, according to my dad, this is the most painful thing that has ever happened to him! So of course he and I spent most of the prep cracking jokes and hitting on every pretty doctor and nurse that came into the room. I appreciate the sentiment though, samson, I really do.

[J T]

Smile: Got the biggest known stressor I'd been dreading all year finished finally; my wife and I moved to Milledgeville GA. A lot of factors made this scenario complicated, but we're in the new house now, with all our stuff here and our cats/dogs. I've always wanted to own forested land, with a nice solid home in the middle, and have accomplished it. One bucket list item taken care of.

Ticked: Piles and piles and piles of boxes left to unpack and integrate. Got to get my home office up and running tomorrow, no exceptions. Lots of yard work (and forestry) to do. A fair amount of home modifications (and small repairs) to deal with. Well, we won't be bored... ever again.

Ecstatic: All of this stuff can be done at a slow pace, which means I'll actually have time to game again.

Congratulations dude! This is huge.

I wish I was still surrounded by trees, but when my neighbor sold, the new owner tore out all the trees to have a big ugly lawn behind the McMansion he built over the old property. I hate that guy. Then my other neighbor decided to tear all his trees out to have more light. I used to see trees out every window. Now I see ugly houses and children's toys littered across unkempt grass and dirt.

I am wanting to be surrounded by trees again, so I hope you enjoy yours while you have them. Sorry to flood in with jealousy. I am happy for you and I am glad to know other people care about their trees.

[Ack]

Milledgeville GA

Nice, you're only about two hours away from Atlanta.

[Exhuminator]

Congratulations dude! This is huge.

Thanks. And yes this is huge. Not just in property acquisition, but in life change in general. Today is the first day of working from my home office for example. I've never worked from home before, and trying to make sure I'm doing everything right (multiple factors) is intimidating.

I am wanting to be surrounded by trees again, so I hope you enjoy yours while you have them.

We purchased 17 acres of land, most of it is forested, the house in the middle. This means no one can take the trees away, unless we sell. Or if nature destroys them with a fire or beetles, but that's outside my power to control largely. Gonna have to cut a firebreak eventually around the property.

Sorry to flood in with jealousy.

Well let's keep in mind all of this costs massive money. And massive responsibility*. It's one thing to admire a bigger house and a personal forest, it's another to live the reality of maintaining and paying for it all. I'm still working on having the latter fully sink in.

*One example; when we moved in, I decided I did not approve of the existing dryer duct and outlet. So yesterday I removed and replaced those things. However, that required crawling under my house for hours, removing a large PVC pipe from multiple connective points, and chiselling out the old duct outlet from the brick foundation. Then I had to run another 20' duct and install the outlet with mortar into the foundation. Plus fit adapters on both ends to use non-standard duct size. All of this was a pain in the ass and took 4 hours. There's tons of other projects like that lying in wait. But it's worth doing right when it's yours.

2 hours drive

Without traffic issues, it takes less than an hour to get to Atlanta from Milledgeville. My wife has family that lives there, so I'm familiar with the ride.

[laurenhiya21]

Congrats on your move, Exhuminator!

We purchased 17 acres of land, most of it is forested, the house in the middle. This means no one can take the trees away, unless we sell.

Sounds really nice. I'm a big fan of forests and privacy. Not that I would be a big fan of maintaining it all, but I can't help but be a bit jealous anyway

[Exhuminator]

Thanks laurenhiya21, and a belated congrats on your Japan trip.