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-fish- said:
House buying attempt #2 fail:  I had the high offer, but the sellers chose a lower cash offer with no inspection and a slightly faster close.   Dumb.
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Good luck man.  We went through this #### for weeks trying to buy in Portland.  We put six offers in before finally getting one accepted.  

 
urbanhack said:
Wildfires happening just east of Portland.  Started on Saturday at a popular hiking spot.  We just hit this one six weeks ago.  The fire also just jumped the river and is now burning on both sides.   Just walked outside and have a good amount of ash on our cars.  :unsure:  
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My sister has a place up on the Oregon side of the Columbia River Gorge.  Fire is on both sides now and headed her direction, but still a good distance away.

Crystal Mountain, where I ski 10-20 times a year, seems to be on fire as well.

 
El Floppo said:
jeebus. 

so it's all about cash offers? crazy that there are this many cash-rich people out there... but from what I've seen here too, seems to be the new norm.

any  #3s out there worth bidding on? any sweet ol' widows who just want to see their place go to the right person type of deals any more?
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The cash offer also waived inspection.   I probably could have gotten this one if I'd done a pre-inspection, meaning I would have had to pay $400-500 to inspect the property before putting an offer on it, and then waived the inspection in the offer.   I don't really want to pay $500 just to decide whether to make an offer on a house, particularly if there's a likelihood that I'm going to have to make 4-5 offers before I get one accepted.  

I'm looking at two more today.  

 
mr. furley said:
had a guy come and level our lawn. part of that involved exposing a couple stumps (too close to cables for the guy to pull them out, he said).  one other stump he dug out completely.  it's... sizable. 

no way i can haul it away. recommendations for a chainsaw that can rip through a stump without also ripping through my arms?
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Drill a bunch of 1-2" holes in the stumps. 

Pack them with dog poo

Seal

Wait six-ten months

Remove rotted stumps with a sledge hammer and a wheel barrow

 
strongest recorded hurricane on record.  180mph sustained winds with gusts to 220 ####  

sister is going to a friends house that is on the main power grid.(they will lose power no matter what) it's an old concrete house that has weathered many storms.  this will be the 3rd mega storm she's been through in the 27 years or so she's lived down there.  they had no power for nearly a month after one of them. gnarly ####

 
DA RAIDERS said:
strongest recorded hurricane on record.  180mph sustained winds with gusts to 220 ####  

sister is going to a friends house that is on the main power grid.(they will lose power no matter what) it's an old concrete house that has weathered many storms.  this will be the 3rd mega storm she's been through in the 27 years or so she's lived down there.  they had no power for nearly a month after one of them. gnarly ####
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gllllll hope she comes out no worse for wear

 
urbanhack said:
Wildfires happening just east of Portland.  Started on Saturday at a popular hiking spot.  We just hit this one six weeks ago.  The fire also just jumped the river and is now burning on both sides.   Just walked outside and have a good amount of ash on our cars.  :unsure:  
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That Eagle Creek fire is a monster.  I don't see how it jumped over the Columbia River, but it did.  Incredible.

Our deck, ungaraged car, etc. are all covered in ash from the various Washington fires.  The sun isn't visible even though it's a sunny day - no clouds but just the heavy haze/smoke.  And we're not really that near any of the bigger fires.  The Jolly Mountain and Jack Creek fires are going to #### up my backpacking trip to the Enchantments in 10 days, for which I had to win a lottery for a permit back in March.  Not so awful compared to people losing their houses and such, but sucks nonetheless.  It's a nightmare all over the PNW right now.

 
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-fish- said:
My sister has a place up on the Oregon side of the Columbia River Gorge.  Fire is on both sides now and headed her direction, but still a good distance away.

Crystal Mountain, where I ski 10-20 times a year, seems to be on fire as well.
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Yeah, Crystal went to level 3 evacuation last night from the Norse Peak fire.  I'm hearing another one sprung up overnight in the Greenwater area near Kelly Butte.  It's neverending.

 
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Last year I did a thing that I wasn't proud of.  Wrote about it on this board, then deleted it.  Was sorry I did it, and embarrassed.  After my dad died, I took some months to reevaluate, and was even more embarrassed.  Decided to commit to really trying to be a more thoughtful person.  Wasn't always successful. 

About a month ago, Wife gets anonymous email that said something along the lines of:  "Last year, Sweet J [did this thing]. I thought you should know.  Don't reply to this."

As you can guess, that has sucked.  In a way, it wasn't horrible, because I'd kind of lived in fear about getting found out.  I ALMOST told her immediately after, but after talking to my dad for a bit, decided not to.  One of the last cogent conversations I had with him.

Anyway, just an update.  Not necessarily a "life is horrible" update.  If anything, the email has spurred a lot of good conversation with the Wife.  About the last year, the last 5 years, the last 10 years of our marriage.  What has worked and what has not.  What has made us happy, and what has not.  Why we are in this place we seem to be in.  The fact that she's been unhappy with herself for a long time, and it has manifested in being unhappy with me.  She admitted that she's pretty unhappy with me generally even before she got the email.  She's now got herself into therapy.  And the two of us are going to a therapist who specializes in working with couples who are divorcing (what a weird practice:  if the couple somehow decides to reconcile, she'll refer them to someone else).

So, we will likely split sometime in the near-to-mid future.  But we aren't really in a hurry right now.  Still talking things through.  We sat down to do a budget last week to see if we could afford it and still keep the house (I really, really don't want the kids to have to move).  It will be very tight.  I'll have to live somewhere small, but still feels like "home" to the kids.  But again, there is no rush to make it happen.  For now, I'm back to sleeping in the basement apartment.  But in all other respects, we act like a family.  Dinners together, movies, walks into town, getting kids off to school.  Strange.  We are both kind of zen about it, but the reality of splitting our crap hasn't had to happen yet.

 
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I've been looking at that picture for 10 minutes, I've read the accompanying text twice, and I still have no idea which one is Mr. Trent. 

 
Uruk-Hai said:
Are we at the End Times? They just threw a tornado warning out there for my little corner of nowhere.
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Since Im slated to start driving across the country tomorrow morning to start a much better job in about 12 days, Im guessing the answer is "probably, yes." :(

 
Sweet J said:
Last year I did a thing that I wasn't proud of.  Wrote about it on this board, then deleted it.  Was sorry I did it, and embarrassed.  After my dad died, I took some months to reevaluate, and was even more embarrassed.  Decided to commit to really trying to be a more thoughtful person.  Wasn't always successful. 

About a month ago, Wife gets anonymous email that said something along the lines of:  "Last year, Sweet J [did this thing]. I thought you should know.  Don't reply to this."

As you can guess, that has sucked.  In a way, it wasn't horrible, because I'd kind of lived in fear about getting found out.  I ALMOST told her immediately after, but after talking to my dad for a bit, decided not to.  One of the last cogent conversations I had with him.

Anyway, just an update.  Not necessarily a "life is horrible" update.  If anything, the email has spurred a lot of good conversation with the Wife.  About the last year, the last 5 years, the last 10 years of our marriage.  What has worked and what has not.  What has made us happy, and what has not.  Why we are in this place we seem to be in.  The fact that she's been unhappy with herself for a long time, and it has manifested in being unhappy with me.  She admitted that she's pretty unhappy with me generally even before she got the email.  She's now got herself into therapy.  And the two of us are going to a therapist who specializes in working with couples who are divorcing (what a weird practice:  if the couple somehow decides to reconcile, she'll refer them to someone else).

So, we will likely split sometime in the near-to-mid future.  But we aren't really in a hurry right now.  Still talking things through.  We sat down to do a budget last week to see if we could afford it and still keep the house (I really, really don't want the kids to have to move).  It will be very tight.  I'll have to live somewhere small, but still feels like "home" to the kids.  But again, there is no rush to make it happen.  For now, I'm back to sleeping in the basement apartment.  But in all other respects, we act like a family.  Dinners together, movies, walks into town, getting kids off to school.  Strange.  We are both kind of zen about it, but the reality of splitting our crap hasn't had to happen yet.
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From the things you've shared here, it seems like this has been a long time coming.  I hope you're both happier after it's done.

 
Sweet J, divorce is so awesome I might just do it again!

Just kidding...hope it all gets better for you all soon.  And no, I'm not considering another divorce.















But I am considering running away to join the French Foreign Legion.

 
I don't understand Chaos Commish's decisions to abandon alcohol without a Homer J-esque need and some kind of intervention from a concerned second party.  I do, however, understand it way more than paying someone good money for counseling with a person with whom you no longer intend to share a mortgage, a future, or the potential for naked jump parties.

 
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selling a few things on craigslist. wife is contacted by someone that is clearly a scammer. asks my advice. i tell her to ignore it, it's a scam. instead she responds asking to change the terms of payment and continues to engage the scammer. 

not for kicks, or laughs but because she thinks it's just a misunderstanding that she can iron out and sell this "person" these items.

:shrug:  

am i supposed to offer sympathy? ask her how she feels about this? say nothing? pretend i blacked out years ago and just came to now?

 
mr. furley said:
selling a few things on craigslist. wife is contacted by someone that is clearly a scammer. asks my advice. i tell her to ignore it, it's a scam. instead she responds asking to change the terms of payment and continues to engage the scammer. 

not for kicks, or laughs but because she thinks it's just a misunderstanding that she can iron out and sell this "person" these items.

:shrug:  

am i supposed to offer sympathy? ask her how she feels about this? say nothing? pretend i blacked out years ago and just came to now?
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Offer sympathy to who, yourself?

 
Surprised to find gas stations mostly empty. Shelves cleared at a bunch of grocery stores around here.  Clearing out the lanai after work tomorrow when I get home.  This is making me pretty nervous and the possibility of evacuating is real for the first time in 12 years.  #### Irma.

 
Osaurus said:
Surprised to find gas stations mostly empty. Shelves cleared at a bunch of grocery stores around here.  Clearing out the lanai after work tomorrow when I get home.  This is making me pretty nervous and the possibility of evacuating is real for the first time in 12 years.  #### Irma.
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Hopefully heading east and north? Good luck, gb. 

My favorite places in the Caribbean appear to be taking or about to take direct hits. Scary ####. Stay safe FL and SE people

 
El Floppo said:
Hopefully heading east and north? Good luck, gb. 

My favorite places in the Caribbean appear to be taking or about to take direct hits. Scary ####. Stay safe FL and SE people
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Thanks.  Hoping she goes out to sea and gets bent.  Never seen so many people in a Wal Mart at 2 am.  Maybe small towns with them might get busy after bar close.

 
Kind of pales in comparison to all the crap others are going through, but got stuck in a deluge this morning in a half hour into my work day and now have to sit here for the next 8 hours in soaking wet clothing because I'm an idiot and didn't bring a change of clothes.

 
El Floppo said:
Hopefully heading east and north? Good luck, gb. 

My favorite places in the Caribbean appear to be taking or about to take direct hits. Scary ####. Stay safe FL and SE people
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just saw pics and video of St Barts, St Maarten and Anguilla (where I got married... drifter too)- all of which took direct hits- under water and wrecked. :(

@DA RAIDERS  any word from your sister? 

 
This morning I take the puppy out at 6am and she pees outside.  Then 10 minutes after bringing her back in she pees again on the floor.  How is this possible?

 
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