I really enjoy my religious social club. (Can't call it church, people tend to run the other way you call it that.) It's fun, I get strokes for doing what I do every day - and I don't have to sweat sitting talking about stuff because I might get called names for it.

The pastor they'd had for 15 years resigned less than six months after I started with them. Just as we're about ready to call our new pastor?

Interim gave her notice this morning. She's been with us over a year. It's fair, it's to be expected - and we really are (as a group) far more ready for her to move on than we think...

And I may have to drag this whole group to the next step with the bit in my teeth. They are NOT going to be happy another pastor has moved on and left them to struggle on their own.

Grrr. Guess it's a good thing I can grow horns and a tail at need. Gonna need them.

I really enjoy my religious social club. (Can't call it church, people tend to run the other way you call it that.) It's fun, I get strokes for doing what I do every day - and I don't have to sweat sitting talking about stuff because I might get called names for it.

The pastor they'd had for 15 years resigned less than six months after I started with them. Just as we're about ready to call our new pastor?

Interim gave her notice this morning. She's been with us over a year. It's fair, it's to be expected - and we really are (as a group) far more ready for her to move on than we think...

And I may have to drag this whole group to the next step with the bit in my teeth. They are NOT going to be happy another pastor has moved on and left them to struggle on their own.

Grrr. Guess it's a good thing I can grow horns and a tail at need. Gonna need them.

I'm losing people around me again. Pastor at church retired, and a coworker has left the company. Going to miss them both SORELY.

BTW. Anyone out there know someone who can code RPG on the AS/400 platform, come see me after class.

And basically warns me he might just give me a bid for the house version of the new radiator cap.

You know the story on that one, right? When you take the car in for service and they tell you it needs a new radiator cap?

"Yeah, pull the cap up and drive a new car underneath it."

I'll dub it the "new front doorknob" treatment. *facepalms* And he says he doesn't take jobs that are under $200,000.

UH.

Okay.

The fire insurance policy says it would take about $150,000 to rebuild the house as it stands. A little more, a little less.

In all truth, knocking it completely down and redoing it would be faster than retrofitting...and has some very good side benefits.

We know the back house MUST come down. No choice. And a closer look at the front house is showing some things that really might be deal breakers on saving the structure. Sixty years of creep and slab on clay foundation has taken its toll - I strongly suspect the foundation is cracked or damn near close to it. I could just do what we could to get that extra bedroom and bathroom, but we'd still be dealing with that.

And if we built new, I'd be able to put solar in...and anything else we had been wanting. Usable closets, for one. I wouldn't put air conditioning in, but I could put something central in...and that fireplace/wood stove thing.

But the financing. Ah. Well, people must be doing this because the home refit business continues to boom like no tomorrow - so, I'm thinking there must be so way to do it and I might be able to roll the money for the second adoption into it (and put that WAY aside).

Waiting to get more information. Guy was out here for two hours - that's what you get for getting the contractor who did an Extreme Home Makeover out to look at your house. Vic can stay.

Will the house? Stay tuned.

And basically warns me he might just give me a bid for the house version of the new radiator cap.

You know the story on that one, right? When you take the car in for service and they tell you it needs a new radiator cap?

"Yeah, pull the cap up and drive a new car underneath it."

I'll dub it the "new front doorknob" treatment. *facepalms* And he says he doesn't take jobs that are under $200,000.

UH.

Okay.

The fire insurance policy says it would take about $150,000 to rebuild the house as it stands. A little more, a little less.

In all truth, knocking it completely down and redoing it would be faster than retrofitting...and has some very good side benefits.

We know the back house MUST come down. No choice. And a closer look at the front house is showing some things that really might be deal breakers on saving the structure. Sixty years of creep and slab on clay foundation has taken its toll - I strongly suspect the foundation is cracked or damn near close to it. I could just do what we could to get that extra bedroom and bathroom, but we'd still be dealing with that.

And if we built new, I'd be able to put solar in...and anything else we had been wanting. Usable closets, for one. I wouldn't put air conditioning in, but I could put something central in...and that fireplace/wood stove thing.

But the financing. Ah. Well, people must be doing this because the home refit business continues to boom like no tomorrow - so, I'm thinking there must be so way to do it and I might be able to roll the money for the second adoption into it (and put that WAY aside).

Waiting to get more information. Guy was out here for two hours - that's what you get for getting the contractor who did an Extreme Home Makeover out to look at your house. Vic can stay.

Will the house? Stay tuned.