Approved and Closing

The co-op board approved us and we will be closing on the 17th. We will be homeowners again. I’m definitely looking forward to it.

I was talking with someone in Amarillo today who was highly amused by this whole saga. He told me that in Amarillo you could buy a house and close in three weeks. Oh well, that’s life in the big city.

No adoption update thought…

Speaking of life in the big city, the swift-boating of presidential political candidates has begun. The international firefighters union has a web site called Rudy Giuliani: Urban Legend. The firefighters have been upset with Giuliani for quite a while. They have three major gripes, two legit, one partially legit but very emotional.

1) The firefighters had defective radios and Giuliani knew this for years. The defective radios added to the deaths on 9/11 (firefighters didn’t get the evacuation call).

2) He picked 7 World Trade center as the command center when the World Trade center was an obvious terrorist target.

3) In November of 2001, Giuliani curtailed the search for bodies at ground zero. Conspiracy theorists (and this site) say that once they recovered the large amount of gold that was known to be buried at the site, other recovery efforts were stopped. This was a hugely emotional issue for the firefighters and was never forgotten.

Ah politics…