I realized I didn’t give my new address in that last post. So here you go.
Daniel and Jennifer Roop
1009 Summer Lakes Dr.
Orlando, FL 32835
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Daniel Roop the Dog Whisperer
I Daniel Roop am….the “Dog Whisperer”…i wish.
I choose this as the intro to my post because it pretty much sums up my life over the past couple weeks. My life has been crazy over the past month. So I figured a summary post would be appropriate.
So Jeni and I have bought a house. The closing was on March 15th, I think. But let’s start that monday. On Monday Jeni, my sister Joyce, and I went to see a litter of puppies. Well in that litter we found our little Kye Lynn (for photos see previous post). I wanted to wait until after the closing, but as always I caved to Jeni and her beautiful puppy dog eyes, begging me to get her. So we took Kye home. The first night was not too bad. Our apartment was mostly in boxes, so there wasn’t much she could get into. We tried to put her in the bathroom to sleep, but she was not happy with that, so we let her roam the bedroom. I know everyone will say this is not a good idea, but so far it is working for us. The nice thing about getting Kye this early was because Jeni was on spring break so she was able to stay home with her all week.
So the week went on and wednesday March 15 we went to the title company to do our closing after work. Everythign was going so good with the closing, that I was very oppotomistic about the last day to wrap up just fine. Well turns out I was nieve. After signing just about all the documents we find out that the Sellers had some Canadian Tax problem. I will not go into details, but long story short, they wanted to keep a good chucnk of his earnings for income taxes, and he was not aware. We ended up finishing signing, but we left that night not knowing whehter we owned the house. The next morning, the seller gave me a call letting me know that he got the tax problem taken care of and the title company was finishing the processing. So we officially owned our house.
That weekend I had movers scheduled. Let me tell you what…big shout out to Small Moves. The took a little longer than the quoted me, raking in just under 4 hours, but they made it looks so easy, and it was so well worth the money not to have to move that furniture down those stairs. I did notice that a couple pieces got some knicks, but nothing I am too worried about. I was glad that we moved everything that was important to us ourselves.
So now we have been in our house, and we have taken Kye through a through different training tactics, but over all she is doing very well. My hands and arms probably wouldn’t agree, as the most recent attempt has been to be the pack leader, and she is not exactly accepting when I show my dominance. But she is learning.
My advice in all of this. Don’t get a dog and buy a house in the same week….Bad Daniel!
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Kye The Celebrity
I just checked my gmail for the first time in a few days, and I got a message from flickr. Apparently someone liked the picture of kye, and put it up on there blog Jara, pets and friends. Well I am just thrilled my baby, is already a celebrity. I am sure once Jeni sees it she will go crazy. Anyways, seems like a pretty cool dog site, so check it out.
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Kye Lynn the Wonderful
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Beach Sunset
The only reason why I am making this post is to test out the blogging portion of flickr. As I have yet to see the results I can’t really tell you how it turned out. However what I can tell you is that if it turns out bad I will remove it.
Anyways, so a little about this picture. This picture was taken at the Daytona Beach Marina where Jeni’s (my wifes) Dad has his 46′ sail boat. It is a very nice boat, that I have had the pleasure of going on out a couple times now.
I do regret to say however that I am not all that great of a sailor. Mostly because I don’t really know the terms used, for instance I still get port and starboard mixed up. But besides that I think I can follow the Captin’s orders pretty well.
So, because I was told I have to much time on my hands, I will cut this post of…mara….I will see you this weekend, so if you check this, watch out 😉
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Relient K Rocks!
I just found this link to the Who I am hates who I’ve been Music video and I thought I would post it. Just to so I could post something. I am very excited about Relient K finally breaking into main stream, I have followed them since there first self titled release from Gotee Records. Anyone whole likes great lyrics, and a solid sound defeintly should pick up there latest cd mmhmm. I personally love them all. Anyways here is the video…
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Home Search I
It begins…
I have got back into the house search. Just before I got married I was looking, but I felt rushed and the market was going crazy. So I didn’t feel comfortable making a decision. Now I think the market is calming down and I won’t have to make difficult decisions with Jeni around to tell me how wrong I am ;-).
Searching
Anyone who reads this and has advice feel free to chime in. Write now I have been scouting out the area I am interested in (Dr. Phillips). I have been using Yahoo! Real Estate and Buy Owner. So far the results seem failry good, I am interested however in finding a good mls search engine. Or somehwere I can enter MLS numbers in to lookup the property information.
Validating
I have found it extremly helpful to use OCPA which is the Orange County Property Appraiser’s website. Here you can put in an address and look up the buy/sell history of the property. As well as look up properties around that area to see what the going rate of the neighbors houses are.
A good example of where OCPA shed some light on a house was a certain property that looks like it was bought 5 months ago, just to be resold now. This tells me either there is something wrong with the house, or it was a buy, repair, and sell job. So I can expect a bit of a premium if the second option is true.
Pet Peeves
My first peeve is no address. One of the most important things to me is locatoin, and half of the houses that get returned don’t have an address. This is no good because I can’t look up the informaiton on OCPA, and it means I have to call and talk to a realtor. I appreciate there effort in wanting to talk to me, however I would like to know some information about the property before I get into any kind of negotiation.
My Second peeve, no pictures. This is more of a peeve with all classified type listings. PLEASE PUT PICTURES, I am only interested in text if the picture appeals to me. Or if I know exactly what I am looking for. In the case of a house looks are very important, so if it looks like crap, or the lawn looks shady, then I am not interested, if it looks well kemped there is a good chance I will give it a little more thought. So you might think oh my lawn sucks, I will leave out a picture. WRONG, I just will ignore you completely. Atleast with the bad lawn, I still consider price etc, and if the price is right, I will work on the lawn myself.
Conclusion
So far, I am less stressed than I was last time I was looking. I think I have a better grasp on what is expected of me, and what cost are associated with the sale. As well as in a better financial situation so hopefully I will get something more appropriate for Jeni and my needs.
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DJ Flix OnRails
It took me awhile to post this but I have put up a new front page to danielandjeni.com. From here you can get to the old wedding site, directly to the gallery, or to my blog. Isn’t that excitnig.
Now I am working on the photo gallery which I am writting in .Net using Monorail. I am currently hashing out the object model, but it is coming along nicely. I don’t think it will be anything compared to but it will be my own.
I have also continued draftnig my first article in the Vidcast series. I think in a couple more days it will finally be ready to be posted.
Life
I took the plunge I signed up for netflix. For those of you who don’t know what netflix is, it is a “the world’s largest online DVD movie rental service” as quoted from the About Us section. Basically it is BlockBuster’s down fall. I signed up for the three at a time plan for less than 20 bucks a month. My first three movies…..SKY HI, RAY, and FANTASTIC 4. So we will see how I like the service and get back to you. I figured this would be cheaper than constantly buying movies. It is a big switch for me, as I have not rented in quite some time.
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DanielandJeni.com OnRails
wedding.danielandjeni.com
For those who have not noticed or care, danielandjeni.com has been brought down. Actually I should say relocated to http://wedding.danielandjeni.com. So for all of you who want to relive those warm memories of my wedding feel free.
danielandjeni.com On a MonoRail
For those nerds out there I was able to get my host to make the IIS settings to configure MonoRail. So I will begin constructor of the Daniel and Jeni portal. The idea of this site will be like a Custom Daniel/Jeni MySpace. So you can go here for pictures, contact info, an a general blog of our life. Atleast I think that is what will happen. So check there often to see what is going on.
p.s. hammett thanks for the tip, but my host runs IIS, and i had to get them to add the entry at the computer because they use hsphere to manage the servers, and I don’t have access to that setting.
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Money Money Money Moooney
So that wasn”t too bad. I have AdSense approved and added. My only complaint was the fact that to place it where I wanted on the page I had to add a customer handler….get_ads(). I will probably change how this works, since it really should be get_horizontal_ads(), and I shoul also have a get_vertical_ads(), so if I change the layout I don”t have to change the code that much. Anyways that is probably boring.
Coming soon…Next on my things to do is two fold. I am researching a development environment to build a teacher management application for Jeni(my wife). I am probably going to go with something in php, because that is what my host supports. However if I can figure out how to get MonoRail to work on my host, I will probably use that; as I am fond of that particular .NET clone (or should I say Nclone) of RubyOnRails.
Project Two is documenting my efforts into the world of vidcasting. Hopefully I will have helpful information for other people just starting or interested in getting started. At this point my undisclosed co-host and I have done some test recordings to see what we are like on camera, and we have started putting together a hardware inventory. I will attempt to break them up into helpful chunks.
And that is that…