Vanity at it's worst : What's YOUR latest "aquisition" ? thread

saugmon, where are they selling these homes?

 

Morning all! Frost warning right now,and high will be around 70!

Around Bellefontaine Oh. Columbus should be one of the cheapest cities in the US for property. I'm from Shelby County and the property was a heck of a lot cheaper.

You guys/gals may think that sounds cheap,but ex governor Bob Taft made us around the 2nd highest taxed state. You practically need to buy a permit to wipe your a**!

After clinton signed nafta,there went a lot of our factories down to Mexico.

Another thing we have,not sure of how other states do- Some school districts have separate school taxes. These aren't your normal property taxes,which go for the school. These so called school taxes are a separate income tax for the schools,and usually another 1%-1.5% off your paycheck-which is total bullpucky.

Taft gave factories a big tax break on their year end inventory-which went to the schools,but now- we citizens have to make up for that. That's why there are record numbers of School levies,throwing school taxes on the ballots.

Thank god that idiot-Taft- is gone!!

 

@Saugmon...working in what is (essentially) an unemployment office (I work with educational grants), my coworkers are still struggling the with effects of both clinton and bush's free trade agreements...add to that both legal and illegal immigrants, the guys face a true nightmare trying to get people employed when an increasing number of employers are laying off good employees to hire people at slaves' wages. I had a number of them referred to me just this week for educational grants because, under the present circumstances, they're considered "unemployable" ... and these are good, hardworking people losing their jobs. While I joke around alot about many of the wierdo's I see in this office, I see a lot of good people in desperate situations. They say the economy is doing so much better but anyone who works in a job center wonders what planet these guys are on!

Edit: Next week, I'm spending four full days in Harrisburg listening to lectures on the legal aspects of both the clinton and bush free trade agreements. Lucky me! I'll be totally lobotomized in about an hour. I think I'd enjoy a root canal more (no offense there, garmoon LOL!)

 

i finally got the time to install firefox 2 onto my computer. it takes forever to download stuff on dialup, but i got it and im happy, its so new and shiny, it even puts a red underline under all those mistakes i just made... cool.

 

I'm on dial-up, How much faster Polyarny?

Being in an apartment,I get no cable,so strictly phone hookup via Sprint/Embarq DSL-which totally sucked a** or dial-up, LOL. I'd like to get RoadRunner.

I'm not sure what options I'll have out in the country,probably the same options as I have now?

 

its definitely better than with IE, i noticed when i was downloading the new install my download speed stayed right around six kbps, and when i was downloading the new themes twas a little faster. it still sucks but definitely better than with IE. as for options out in the country, i dont know if you are in the states, but my girlfriends mom works for AT&T and they are working on this thing called U-Verse. they ship all of your connections: tv, phone, high speed internet, through fiber optics. pretty interesting stuff actually, they are testing it somewhere in the southwest, not really sure as to the exact location though. bout the same cost as what youd be paying now for all of those. even lets you do picture in picture even if your tv doesnt support the format. ill have to look into it some more, ill ask her if i can see the specs for it again if i remember. only down side is they send the fiber optics to those big grenn power nodes that you sometimes see around, and the farther you are away from one the worse the quality gets, but its a step in the right direction for all us "in the sticks" people. lol

 

I live in Redmond in the sticks, and all of our power, phone, and cable are underground, so that makes up for the nodes. I have comcast right now for TV phone and internet and love it. It is all threw fiber optics and it is amazing. Do you have Cable out near your new house?

 

I puchased a new telescope last week. (Celestron C-11 Carbon Fiber scope with a CGE computerized mount.)

 

I don't know. There's an old nursing home just up from me-200 yds,and a brand new nursing home they built beside that old one,further up the road-still using both nursing homes. That new home is suppose to be hi-tech.

 

@Loco...should be beautiful ... I particularly like the bouganvilla because it flowers constantly. When I lived in miami, we had it growing everywhere and in all colors.

 

Roundup is my best friend! LOL

I got both motors on the boat a runnin! Time to start saugeye trolling tomorrow am!

 

Hmm... My last Acquisition.. 8 Paintballs up the ass. I was playing today and my team mate shot me 8 times in the ass. I also bought $80 bucks worth of Paintballs, 400o balls. I shot them all. I get trudder happy.

 

Just bought myself 2 Scuba Tanks off Ebay. 30 bucks each. Heck of a deal, I can use them to fill my N2 for my Paintball Gun and for Scuba Diveing. I killed 2 birds with one stone!

 

My latest aquisition : 2 boxes of wrigley's doublemint.
WRIGLEY'S DOUBLEMINT FTW !!
Sorry, i just had to shout.

 

10 Bomber Model A's,B02: 1/4 oz, 2 1/2" long, Tennessee Shad Via Bass Pro Shops.com

10 Bomber Model A's, B02,but Red craws- 5 from Bass Pro Shop Detroit Mi and five of them from local bait shop.The lady in the bait store rung up the wrong price,so got those 5 very cheap.

8 Bomber Model A's, B02- Firetiger

I cannot locate any of the hottest Firecraw colors anywhere. Basspro in detroit out,local baitshop out, Basspro.com is also out of them. They better get them in soon!

Hey all!!! Closing is set for monday morning, YeeHaa. I'll finally be moving out in the country,but only 5 mins from town!

 

Just switched ISP. I'm now at a NICE 3Mb/s up from a gruelingly slow 800Kb/s. FINALLY

 

Who'd you go with? US or UK?

 

US. I have a service called Charter High Speed. I'm living in the US so I'd better use US lol.