Hi, everyone!

First, I’d like to extend a big THANK YOU to Russ for hosting our fabulous Thanksgiving day feast yesterday! We had great food, great company and really great time! It’s the best Thanksgiving I’ve had in years! I have to say that as weird as merliton casserole is, I really LOVE it! :-)

I’m also happy to report that I’ve got everyone situated on the ITX servers now. That whole episode with Verio is just a memory and I’m moving on with my web work.

Ok, here is the state of Casa Misangela as of today:

1. The viaverio.com server deal is history. They had buttloads of hidden fees, it was a pain in the ass to use and the server was not set up. At all. As in, no software such as PHP or MySQL or anything else, which means it is NOT ready to use as I was told it would be. So, it’s gone.

2. The housebuying carnivale is still on track as far as I know. The contract is signed and it’s with the Seller, who then signs it and we’re good to go. The closing is set for Dec 19th if all goes well. Maplehurst, here we come!

3. We are not going up to my parents for Thanksgiving because we’re having a feast with our friends here. We may trot up there for Sat/Sun, but not unless Dickens shows improvement.

4. Dickens is doing ok, but still has major bowel issues. I’m trying yet another drug today to see if we can get it under control, but we can’t leave him for two days if we see no improvement. He won’t use the litterbox in his current state, so my office would be a litterbox and my house would be unbearable!

That’s everything as of now. All in all, not too bad for a moanday!

We had such a fun-filled weekend! Very tiring, but very fun. Friday night, we went to a cd release party at Encyclomedia in Candler Park. The space there is just fabulous! It’s a recording studio and much more and the party was rockin’. We didn’t intend to stay as late as we did, but the headlining band,Big Jack Pneumatic, was so much fun we just couldn’t leave!

I had to work both Friday AND Saturday, natch, so after a very long Saturday at the Moon on 4 hours sleep, I was pretty dead. But there was no time for worrying about that because Big Jack was throwing a party Saturday night up in Smyrna. It was a ton of fun and I got to get my music on with the band members. We all talked about the business and their respective instruments and techniques. It was good.

At both parties, I ran into Ken of SonicDreams and Creative Loafing fame. We got to chat for quite a while at the band party Saturday night and it was really good to reconnect after a few years!

I can never leave well enough alone. I have reinitiated negotiations with the squirrelly realtor and the spastic seller that we had the bad experience with a few weeks back. I must be crazy! I just couldn’t shake the feeling that there was a deal there waiting to happen if I could manage to get everyone on the same page. So I did. We are now doing paperwork and getting our ducks in a row to make a bid (that is already approved by the seller) tomorrow. Yikes! We’ll be just a little over our heads, but not by much, like $150-200. We decided that it was nuts to let $200 keep us out of a house.

So, to that end, this is official notification to all our friends that you will never see us again!! LOL We’ll be house poor for a few months until we get on our feet and get used to the new finances, so until then, we’ll not be going out nor will there be any significant gift giving this year. The good news is that we plan to entertain a LOT more and there will definitely be a huge housewarming party for you all to bring us booze to get us thru the tough times! :-)