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Our house is for sale (call our agent if you’re interested!). This is Day 50 of it being on the market. We thought we had plumbed the depths of ennui before this process began but we were so very, very wrong. To date, we’ve had about 12 showings, 2 open houses, and almost no interaction…

We still miss you, bud.

Today is the ninth anniversary since we closed on our first house. We were supposed to be here for 2, maybe 3, years. But here we are almost a decade later, stuck in a starter house we probably should never have bought in the first place. Why? Having a house–well this house anyway–is exhausting. The…

I’m Ryan. This site is almost entirely vanity, with a touch of learning tossed in. I live in Ypsilanti, MI and work for the University of Michigan (no, I will not be able to help you get tickets). Everything on this site is my opinion and not that of the University. On the “who is…

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I’m done with WordPress. After being compromised, again, I’m done. No matter what security extension I install, no matter how automatic the updates, no matter what I tweak, WordPress continues to be compromised. I even went so far as to nuke the install, the database, and the users for both with my host only to…

Yesterday I paid off my last student loan. It took nearly 16 years to do so, a stretch of time that, frankly, is embarrassing. I financed my college education completely on my own; my parents held to the belief (in the mid-90s) that one could still pay their way through college. You couldn’t, there wasn’t…

Chelsea MI’s relevant ordinances regarding removal of snow and ice. Sec. 26-89. – Ice and snow removal. It shall be the duty of the owner or occupant of every parcel of real estate within the city which adjoins a public right-of-way upon which there has been constructed a public sidewalk, to remove any accumulations of…

I’m getting sick of writing these. On January 19, 2014, Myrtle Hulst passed from this Earth. She was 84, 4 months short of her birthday. She is survived by 2 sisters and countless nieces, nephews, grand nieces, grand nephews, and friends. I am one of those grand nephews and Myrt was like a third grandmother…

Lots of good pulls in this Atlantic article, but some highlights: The entirety of Season Six is when Moffat’s fascination for plot twists and open-ended mysteries (in our house, we describe this unfortunate tendency as “plotty-wotty”) took over the show, and the whole product suffered. … As Moffat checked off the boxes, … all I…