so its been this never ending odyssey to find a contractor to do the big work on my house. and by ‘big work’ i mean, fixing the roof and all the rafters. the sheetrock and siding trim is secondary. anyway, i had gotten the guy doing work for my uncle to give me an estimate to do all the big work except giving me a new roof. $9500. before i had gotten the estimate, i had called up a guy to give me an estimate just on my roof. he was going to come tonight or tomorrow. so i called him on my way home and told him he might have to write up an estimate for not just the roof, but the rafters, etc also. so he comes tonight, $8300. the only difference is the first guy would have done the sheetrock. so i’m trading having the sheetrock done for having a roof done PLUS $1200. NICE! the cheaper guy has already done one of my friend’s houses and other houses in the area and comes highly recommended. so what if the workers for the cheaper company may not have their green cards properly filed and the foreman is the only one on the crew to speak english, at least in my broken spanish i can go out and say how i enjoy soccer and baseball while they are here. bueno!

i’ve finally started to take investing more seriously. that guy from law and order makes it sound so easy on tv. i like my 401k at work better, i just blindly contribute every week and don’t even know where its going or anything. well, i mean, i do, but i don’t really have to keep close track on it. with my actual money, i look at a webpage and send $500 into the ether hoping that some CEO doesn’t just blow all the money on a new yacht. so yeah, that’s right, heads up four eyes, i’m watching you!

billy boy

one final thought…i started listening (at the prodding of a few friends like marika and jacob) to death cab…and i think they sound like a male version of eisley. of course, i think they’re good and all, but i can’t help but hear the similarities.