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boxofdelightsSo, I have a house! Have I mentioned that I have a house? And I've been spending a lot of time there, catching up on what they call 'deferred maintenance', and saying "What the hell?"
If you've ever had to maintain legacy code, you know just what tone of voice I'm saying it in. Not just "Why did you do it that way?" but "I can't even guess what you were aiming for here."
For example, I've been going around the house, removing plants to give the painters access to the walls. In the top-middle of this image you can see the original stone foundation. To the left of that is the cinder block foundation of the addition. Nailed into the cinder block is a small piece of plywood. What? What the hell? Why?
If you've ever had to maintain legacy code, you know just what tone of voice I'm saying it in. Not just "Why did you do it that way?" but "I can't even guess what you were aiming for here."
For example, I've been going around the house, removing plants to give the painters access to the walls. In the top-middle of this image you can see the original stone foundation. To the left of that is the cinder block foundation of the addition. Nailed into the cinder block is a small piece of plywood. What? What the hell? Why?
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Date: 2009-09-05 03:39 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-09-05 11:38 am (UTC)I just paid off the last remnants of the mortgage on our place and occasionally look up and go 'Mine! all mine!'
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Date: 2009-09-05 03:37 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-09-05 03:47 am (UTC)I feel like I say this every day.
I want very much to see you and your house. Someday! Before another year. Etc.
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Date: 2009-09-05 04:54 am (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2009-09-05 06:04 am (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2009-09-05 08:31 am (UTC)weird pieces of plywood usually protected from something that used to sit in front of it. good luck in figuring it out, *chuckle*. there are a few things here where even the people who built the place no longer know why they did that.
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Date: 2009-09-05 09:34 am (UTC)The treasure map is behind the plywood, which was originally hidden by a bush.
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Date: 2009-09-05 12:49 pm (UTC)Also, I'll be in your neck of the woods the 14th, 15th, and 16th, flying back here on the 17th. Let me know if you'd like to have dinner one night.
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Date: 2009-09-05 02:52 pm (UTC)May I ask, are the dogs moving with you?
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Date: 2009-09-05 03:27 pm (UTC)Our previous house had a LOT of "what the hell" spots. It was built in 1907, and in 1981 we were just the second family to own it. The man who had grown up, raised his own family, and grown old in the house was a tinkerer, and there was a lot of weirdness.
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Date: 2009-09-05 03:33 pm (UTC)I'd guess that there might be small cracks between the new and old foundations, and some plants' vines or roots were trying to pry their way in.
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Date: 2009-09-06 03:30 am (UTC)Congrats on having a house! Yay house! Fixing broken stuff is so satisfying, isn't it?
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Date: 2009-09-07 09:01 am (UTC)Yay, house!
My house has some very neat and professional-looking additions and some plastering that honestly would have been neater if they'd employed a two-year-old to stand several metres away and throw it on in handfuls. I'm presuming they weren't all done by the same owner, unless they had a heck of a DIY blind spot, but the effect is somewhat peculiar.
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Date: 2009-09-11 05:10 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-09-11 05:25 am (UTC)The dogs will come with me. The horses will stay with Hugh. The children will decide for themselves how to divide their time between the town house and the dacha.
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Date: 2009-09-11 12:12 pm (UTC)no subject
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