They say that no news is good news, but on the selling of the house front, some news might be better than no news. We had an open house over the weekend and ten sets of people came, including the grandson of the original owner who had the house built in 1912. According to our realtor he was telling stories about the house and enchanting the assembled multitude. We were not at home for the festivities and we haven't heard anything since, except that the country is going to rack and ruin, the economy is in shambles and the stock market tanked. It's interesting that investors abandoned their stock and bought up every US treasury bond they could get their hands on, the very things that were downgraded. By the way, Standard & Poors has made some colossal blunders in the past. Remember Enron? They only have 100 analysts to cover over 100 countries. I wouldn't be a bit surprised if it turns out that someone, or some group, has figured out how to manipulate the market. Maybe it's all those tea drinkers. No, they're not smart enough.
The garage sale went well, although we still have a lot of stuff remaining. We got rid of a lot of bulky stuff. Anne took a load of books to Goodwill and we will get the Vets to pick up a lot of the other things. They seem willing to take about anything in good condition.
In anticipation of our move, I have been trying to figure out the best values in TV, internet and phone service. Anne's brother in Rochester uses a good old antenna and gets a nice selection of stations. Time Warner is the cable company there and Verizon apparently doesn't service our street yet. You can't find out on line what it costs for basic TV service, only all about bundled services. We cut back to basic here and I wanted to find out how much that service costs there. I guess I'll have to call them. Here we were paying over $80.00 a month for the TV part of our cable bill. They advertize the basic service for $10.14 a month, so I figured we would save around $70.00. Not so, we only save about $50.00 a month because we lose this discount, that discount and the other discount. That's why I'm thinking about using an antenna at the new house, except now, the geniuses in Congress want to sell off a lot of bandwidth to cell phone companies and make it harder to get anything over an antenna. You just simply can't win.
Got in a swim in the pool today before the rains came. It felt good and we need the rain, so all in all it was a good day, although it's not over yet. Hopefully, the best part is yet to come. I wonder what's for dinner.
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