Craig’s, Permit snowball begins

I have been on Craig’s List before but not for a very long time.  Jeremy was talking about how he just bought some exercise equipment off it the other day so it got me on there snooping around.  I love the fact that it is as bare bones as you can get with just plain, unformatted text, no fancy graphics, no frills and no costs.  I need to include CL with my online buying/selling routine.  Hell it would be great to be able to sell stuff locally without having to give a kings ransom to both ebay and paypal in fees.  I was amazed just how much was in the local SW Florida listings.

Craigs list has TONS of different categories, far beyond just buying and selling. You can find a job, a house, an apartment, discuss politics or find a date.   I couldn’t help myself but to take a look at the personal ads, specifically the women seeking men on Craig’s, I had to see what was going on there.  Again, I was amazed just how many people use this site.  Quickly you grasp the real meaning of certain words in personal ads.  “Curvy”, “normal size” and “full figure” means chubby.  When a woman is looking for a “financially stable” man that means she is a gold digger. I also liked the one listing the mother of a 1 year old posted where she was looking for a man that has not been in prison, does not have an aggressive/violent personality, has some aspirations and at least went to some college.  Wow sounds like a dream getting involved with a woman whose kid’s father is a dumb, violent criminal with no aspirations.  Good luck with that.  Anyway, it is a great site for entertainment, finding good deals and seeing just how many freaks live in your proximity.

So Ali goes to get the fence permit yesterday.  When she gets home last night she tells me she has good news and bad news, great.  The good  news is we have our permit and we can start on the fence whenever we want to. The bad news is as part of the process, the permitting office pulls up our house to see the history on permits.  What is discovered is that we have two open permits (three if you count original pool cage), the permit for the pool FIVE years ago and the permit for the rebuilding of the pool cage after the hurricane.  These permits were obtained but evidently never closed out as they were supposed to be.  Evidently if we would sell our house, these open permits would be an issue.  Ali was told that we need to contact these businesses and tell them they need to reapply and close out the permits.  Great.  Instantly I knew this was going to be a major pain in the ass.  Plus I am worried that when the fence inspection occurs the guy could get a bug up his ass and ask about a permit for the shed and sprinkler system.  Hopefully things won’t get as messy as I am imagining they could be.

I got my two refurb Roombas from Woot.  They are nice.  One is a gray scheduler and one is a Roomba Sage.  I am putting the scheduling function to the test today.  If things go as planned, the gray scheduler will back off it’s base at 5pm, the two virtual walls blocking off the kitchen will turn on and the bot will go off on it’s merry way cleaning.  I will be listing the various accessories on ebay starting today.