Richovia

I have a pretend-nation on Nation States:

http://www.nationstates.net/cgi-bin/index.cgi/target=display_nation/nation=richovia

Richovia, a socialist country.. well, it's fun to pretend!

Okay, a few things in my life:

a) spoke with the Rabbi at Micah about converting. Nice, formal program. Also rather expensive: ~ $750 a year for an associate membership, and that's 50% of the normal membership. I'm (hopefully) getting a new place - depending on how the numbers come out, I come... annoyingly close to having no money (I think the smallest I might have would be around 200 a month, but still, that's cutting things a little close, there's always the occasional dinner out night, or ooh-gotta-have-this-book, or lets-put-mezuzahs-on-each-door months...). In addition, the Rabbi really wants to know that we will bring up our kids Jewish. I think that since we're trying to have kids, get a house, etc.., that it's just too much stress to work with right now,

b) we're trying to get a house. Yesterday I was completely depressed, as the processor person from my mortgage company basically told me there's these conditions, and one of them that I hadn't heard from the acceptance officer was that I have to close my two real credit cards. Yeah, and you want my firstborn son?? I mean, they want me to just pay them off and close them. I'm using them to help me build credit (and it's working, my credit score for the last 6 months has been above 720, so I'm prime lending material). I plan to add to one of them soon, I don't want to blow $800 that I don't necessarily have to make them happy. So I thought it would all fall through. Then I find out today that they think that I still have my old car, which got paid off SIX MONTHS AGO. Grrrr... So SST gets a nastygram call from me tomorrow morning when they open. I'll be polite, but damned firm. I mean, if it was just a month or two, I could understand. But SIX MONTHS!! Once that's cleared up, those conditions should go away. And they didn't even read the contract, the seller's putting in $6K, not 5. They basically just threw the money to UPS these worthless papers to me - if they had CALLED me I could have helped them..,

and c) my development work has kinda stalled. I did make a basic NMAP protocol API in PHP - it logged in, got folders and message lists. Could even retrieve the message. But now I'm wondering if it's worthwhile - they (Novell and the Hula Project) seem to like modweb alot, so *shrug*. I'm thinking to playing with Java instead, now. Dunno. When I compare developer communities, .Net is so Microsoft-dominated, it doesn't seem like there's alot of 3rd party or open/shared source libraries or code out there for .Net, whereas Java has LOTS of communities, and lots of non-Sun based development going on...

So, fascinating life, hopefully in 3 months it's a LOT easier on me, whatever way the winds blow..

I saw this on 's journal and so did it myself:

You scored as Judaism. Your views are closest to those of Judaism. If you are not a Jew, do more research on Judaism and possibly consider becoming one; however, realize that conversion to Judaism is difficult. Judaism was the first of the Abrahamic faiths; it precedes both Christianity and Islam. Judaism 75% Islam 71% Buddhism 67% Hinduism 67% agnosticism 54% Paganism 33% Christianity 29% atheism 17% Satanism 8% Which religion is the right one for you? (new version) created with QuizFarm.com

Rabbi and Realty

Okay, we've identified a specific place that we really want for our next place, it's a condo in Mission Viejo (so it meets Kris' criteria of being in Aurora). Just sent over the first offer and contract to the realtor, we'll see how that goes.. Hopefully, we'll end up getting that contract signed and we can move forward.

Also met with the Rabbi today (Rabbi Morris at Temple Micah of Denver, Colorado). and I need to discuss raising the children, but otherwise I think we're a 'go'. So I need to find out when the Intro to Judaism classes are, how much they are, get on the Rabbi's email list, and make an appointment for next month. I plan to bring Kris at least twice during this whole thing, preferrably at least once early on, maybe month after next or something..

It just rained, and that smells great. (Particularly that moisture, sadly I was inside going over my contract instead of out in it enjoying the rain...) But I got a free carwash at least. Well, off to get dinner...

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