10 Large, Surprising Sale

Yesterday I received my 10G LAN card for my PC. My hope was installing it would instantly snap me up to the full 3 gigabit speed I now have in my house. It didn’t. My download speed still would not crack 1 GB although my upload actually hit 1.4 GB. I have some more tweaks in my bag to try yet. I also converted a few more things over to the new wifi network. I probably won’t have everything converted until next week as I am going away this weekend.

I received an email from my old neighbor last night that my old home is back on the market which surprised the hell out of me. I had considerable interaction with the owners during the sale as I gave them a ton of stuff with the sale of the house. It seemed to me like they were in the home for the long term. They fenced in the front of the yard and the few times I went by it seemed like there were a number of people living there and they had a lot of stuff.

Seeing the pictures of my home of 22 years gave me a weird vibe. Flipping through all of the pictures of changes I did and all of the money, time and effort involved triggered back stories in my mind of how each thing came to be. The pictures of the place make it seem very sparse inside which was the opposite of what I expected based on how “full” the house seemed driving by. I was happy to see that they did have chickens, which they talked to me about although I don’t think they are as close to them as I was mine since they are listed as one of the accessories that goes with the house. It also appears they don’t own a pressure washer although I gave them one of those too. The out buildings and pool cage looks like they had not been cleaned in a very long time.

They are listing the house for 680k plus which seems nuts. I think they are unlikely to get that number with the plentiful home inventory in the area. I don’t know what changed to invoke a sale but I guess you never know what twists and turns life has in store for you.