Houses and Wills
Nov. 3rd, 2005 10:37 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
livingdebDid you know that if several people together inherit a single house and they decide to sell it and split the money and it takes months and months and months to sell, then when a buyer is finally ready to close, you might have to be home the very next day waiting for the Fed Ex guy, then finding a notary that same day (a Saturday), then Fed Ex-ing it back before the cut-off time so it will be there by the next business day?
What if you were out of town on vacation when this news came in? Or one of the other inheritors was? Too bad? No sale?
As I recall, you never get to close on a house as soon as the buyer and seller agree because all this paperwork and stuff has to go through. And yet there's often something that didn't make it. But you'd think you could try to start all the processes as soon as you find out. I guess it's just hard to remember all of them. Even if you do this all the time.
NaNoWriMo Update
390 words, 48 minutes, 487 words per hour, 10% complete, scheduled to finish at this rate on November 30, 45 writing hours remaining.
I had work, then dance class. Since I had told people when I was in Borg mode that you can always find fifteen minutes, I thought I'd better do so myself. But I also should get to bed at a reasonable hour. I have tomorrow afternoon off, so I'll have enough time then to have a good day. Whether I actually do so remains to be seen of course.
Chiruku talked about how he tried writing without doing a lot of pre-writing planning this time, and it sounds like this resulted in the same kind of writing I have. Conversely, today I actually did some planning on the bus ride home and it definitely helped with the morale while I was writing, until my plan petered out. Unfortunately I also tried to do some planning on the bus ride to work and tried again during lunch, which didn't work out, so the morale at those times was as bad as it usually is when I'm writing.
I did decide that one thing that would really help would to make it a lot funnier. It didn't quite happen tonight. Although the first line of Chapter 3, In Which Heather Gets a Bed was okay, so that will be today's excerpt:
What if you were out of town on vacation when this news came in? Or one of the other inheritors was? Too bad? No sale?
As I recall, you never get to close on a house as soon as the buyer and seller agree because all this paperwork and stuff has to go through. And yet there's often something that didn't make it. But you'd think you could try to start all the processes as soon as you find out. I guess it's just hard to remember all of them. Even if you do this all the time.
NaNoWriMo Update
390 words, 48 minutes, 487 words per hour, 10% complete, scheduled to finish at this rate on November 30, 45 writing hours remaining.
I had work, then dance class. Since I had told people when I was in Borg mode that you can always find fifteen minutes, I thought I'd better do so myself. But I also should get to bed at a reasonable hour. I have tomorrow afternoon off, so I'll have enough time then to have a good day. Whether I actually do so remains to be seen of course.
Chiruku talked about how he tried writing without doing a lot of pre-writing planning this time, and it sounds like this resulted in the same kind of writing I have. Conversely, today I actually did some planning on the bus ride home and it definitely helped with the morale while I was writing, until my plan petered out. Unfortunately I also tried to do some planning on the bus ride to work and tried again during lunch, which didn't work out, so the morale at those times was as bad as it usually is when I'm writing.
I did decide that one thing that would really help would to make it a lot funnier. It didn't quite happen tonight. Although the first line of Chapter 3, In Which Heather Gets a Bed was okay, so that will be today's excerpt:
"Mattress Man," said the female-sounding voice. "How may I help you?"