MOTM

Seriously.

After two years of living in a small apartment, easily half filled
with my gear, with my wife and now nine-year-old grandson, and six
offers, two escrows (the first one was canceled by the sellers-
flakes!), and nearly full-time effort, my family is going to close
this Friday on a house here in California!!!  Yeah, that whole
"buyer's market" thing - not so much.

Yes, by golly, I'm the proud owner of a termite-infested, rat's nest.
 It'll be another month before we can move in (rat and termite team,
then  I paint and repair things, then a hardwood floor refinisher) but
I've got the studio space I've been waiting for!  

No more "turn that down Grampa - we're watching SpongeBob!" or "honey,
I can't work around you here" or "Mr. Osthelder, it's come to our
attention that strange noises are emanating from your dining room". 
It's over!  Now I can work on a yard and house instead of making
music, but I've got my own space!  First chance I get, the Engine of
Chaos gets a sequencer patch and I'm playing my neglected drum kit in
accompaniment until the police show up.

As scary as home buying is today, I still feel good!

Chub - broke but not broken

Congrats Chub! Now you can expand the modular! ;-)

John

-----Original Message-----
From: motm@yahoogroups.com [mailto:motm@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of
Charles Osthelder
Sent: Wednesday, September 03, 2008 10:06 AM
To: motm@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [motm] Finally - a house!

Seriously.

After two years of living in a small apartment, easily half filled
with my gear, with my wife and now nine-year-old grandson, and six
offers, two escrows (the first one was canceled by the sellers-
flakes!), and nearly full-time effort, my family is going to close
this Friday on a house here in California!!!  Yeah, that whole
"buyer's market" thing - not so much.

Yes, by golly, I'm the proud owner of a termite-infested, rat's nest.
 It'll be another month before we can move in (rat and termite team,
then  I paint and repair things, then a hardwood floor refinisher) but
I've got the studio space I've been waiting for!  

No more "turn that down Grampa - we're watching SpongeBob!" or "honey,
I can't work around you here" or "Mr. Osthelder, it's come to our
attention that strange noises are emanating from your dining room". 
It's over!  Now I can work on a yard and house instead of making
music, but I've got my own space!  First chance I get, the Engine of
Chaos gets a sequencer patch and I'm playing my neglected drum kit in
accompaniment until the police show up.

As scary as home buying is today, I still feel good!

Chub - broke but not broken


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Congratulations!  A house is not a home until it has a studio filled
with gear.

I'm glad you closed on a place since I know you were tempted to buy
this little house/studio:

http://www.3170durand.com/

Oh, yeah - that was our second choice.  I didn't want the cats
freaking out in all the extra space, though.  And I believe the
neighborhood association frowned on parking sensible sedans in the
driveway. 

It's amazing how many places there are around here that are at that
level.  Even more amazing how many places like that are left in total
disrepair.  The house we're buying has little issues, but nothing I
can't fix myself or afford to have taken care of.  It's a nice, solid
house that's never been "remuddled" (I found the blueprints and
floorplan in the closet!).  And my dorky little Saturn will fit into
the garage with ease!  

Tupperware cars for casual lifestyles.  Wow, I should pitch that to
Saturn...

--- In motm@yahoogroups.com, "Ivan" <ivancu@...> wrote:

>
> Congratulations!  A house is not a home until it has a studio filled
> with gear.
> 
> I'm glad you closed on a place since I know you were tempted to buy
> this little house/studio:
> 
> http://www.3170durand.com/
>