Buying a House

So my friend and I were looking at the Craigslist Real Estate ads in our price range...the list is pretty short....like, non-existent.

Then we found one!
...with a little catch. It's only the HOUSE that's for sale, not the land it's on.

$10000 HOUSE FOR SALE

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Reply to: hous-302962746@craigslist.org
Date: 2007-03-30, 7:14AM PDT


For the entire house. The land is not for sale, we are only selling the house with all its attached appliances. The buyer is responsible for moving the house from the property. Meaning for $10,000 you can cut the house into walls and take it away with all its attached cabinets and appliances to anywhere you want.

The house is on a raised foundation and so it can easily be removed. It is 3 bedroom house with one bath. The house is 1,500 sq.ft. and it has has two fireplaces, all wooden floor, walk in closet. The kitchen was recently remodeled and so the counter tops are almost new, and so is the dishwasher, oven, microwave, the cabinets that come with the house.
There are more cabinets in the house.

The house will be ready to be moved in one one month and a half. The house will be sold As Is. The first person who pays $10,000 cash will own the house and must remove it from it's current place to where ever they want.

If you are interested call: (562) 207-7888
Ask for Mike
So we started looking for a vacant lot we could buy (since the house is only $10,000) and guess what posting came up in our vacant-lot-price-range? Cemetery Lot for 2!

$5200 Cemetery Lot for 2 - Forest Lawn, Hollywood Hills

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Reply to: hous-303352953@craigslist.org
Date: 2007-03-30, 3:54PM PDT


Forest Lawn, Hollywood hills, Lawn crypt for 2 in the tenderness section. Present sale value when buying thru Forest Lawn is $7200. Asking only $5200.

Project Bottled Water

The Environmental Working Group, which is responsible for one of my favorite websites: Skin Deep, is taking on bottled water! Help them out by clicking on the icon below to enter info from a bottled water label. And when you're finished, do check out Skin Deep if you haven't already. Good stuff!

High School Sports

Last Saturday evening, my boyfriend and I were driving down Fairfax, heading to a party at a friend's house, when we noticed a large number of policemen converging from every direction.

As we drove by Fairfax high school we passed what looked like about 50 cop cars pulled up to the school, and other police were closing down main intersections on Fairfax Blvd. with crime tape. Obviously, something serious was going down.

My boyfriend guessed that someone had been shot, and I thought that it must be something even bigger, like a hostage situation, or multiple shootings.

Turns out--it was just an oversold high school basketball game.

A high school principal defended his decision to call police to rein in fans at a weekend basketball game.

Fairfax High Principal Edward Zubiate said Monday that school district police were called after a ticket seller was hit with a bottle during a semifinal match Saturday between Fairfax and Pasadena High.

Fans were apparently upset because they were forced to wait outside as the game started. Zubiate said he saw several people throw things and curse as they stood in line to get into the gymnasium.

School police requested assistance from the Los Angeles Police Department. Once those officers arrived, they called for backup and some 70 officers in riot gear showed up.

Read more about it here and here.

I suppose going to a high school when its football players were the victims of the sharpened buckle incident, I shouldn't be surprised.

From the Albuquerque Sports Hall of Shame, 2004:

Eight years ago on a high school football field, Albuquerque Academy defeated St. Pius X 22-16 in double overtime.

Great game. Then the circus began.

Turns out Mike Cito, then a 17-year-old St. Pius X junior, had a razor-sharp buckle on his helmet. Five Academy players and a ref suffered cuts, and one of the Chargers required 10 stitches to close a gash in his arm.

Cito's father, Stephen, soon admitted to St. Pius X officials that he had sharpened the buckle because he felt his son had been pushed around unfairly in a previous game.

National media outlets, including USA Today and Sports Illustrated, covered the story. St. Pius X expelled Cito. St. Pius X students threw rocks at reporters who came to campus.

Good times.

The district attorney charged both Citos. Stephen pleaded no contest to conspiracy to commit aggravated battery and served two days in jail. Mike entered an admission of guilt plea and was sentenced to a year of probation and 100 hours of community service.

After the incident, St. Pius students (and their parents) brought mini swiss army blades to the Academy v. Pius basketball game as a "joke." Let's hope Pasadena High can rise above.

Airplane = Bad

A few months ago I read an article in ReadyMade about the ecological footprint of air travel. I thought I remembered the statistics correctly, but when I told people about it, I was assured that I must have gotten it wrong--certainly the plane emits bad stuff and uses a lot of energy, but on a per-person basis, flying had to be more environmentally-friendly than driving.

Check it out folks--flying is just about the worst way to travel:

Planeless

And while you are at the Convenient Truth Contest site, check out some of the other shorts...there are some good ones! I knew plastic bags weren't great, but who knew the amount oil used to produce 14 bags plastic bags = 1 mile of driving?

Fun things from the past day or few

It takes a lot to bring me back to my blog...

Scooter Libby found guilty, Ben & Jerry announced a new flavor: Willie Nelson’s Country Peach Cobbler, a U.S. attorney from my home state isn't going quietly, curmudgeon Jon Winokur set the record straight on the definition of irony that Alanis got so terribly wrong, and Ellen made this great joke at the Oscar's:



And speaking of Ben & Jerry's, they have some good info on the cloning issue going before the FDA. Send in your comments this month!

So why I haven't I been blogging? Maybe it's because my hard drive crashed on my home computer for the second time in two years and I still haven't fixed it. Or maybe it's my sacroiliac joint dysfunction that has kept me off the dance floor & volleyball court, and made it hard to sit in front of a computer. Or maybe I just spend too much time being busy. Whatever the reason, I'm back.

Here's an interesting article that doesn't give me much hope for the prison recidivism rate in the U.S., and it looks like you are pretty much screwed if you don't have Windows XP or Vista come daylight savings time.

But on the more optimistic side of things, here's a little more New Mexico pride:
Senate Joint Resolution 5 was introduced by 8 Senators from NM. Yay NM! (perhaps this is a bit more important than the Bolo Legislation!) Look for impeachment actions starting this weekend, culminating in a national day of protest on April 28th.