Our New Island
we bought a house a few days ago. i'm trying to decide if that's a good thing or a bad thing. i can say at the very least that we worked hard enough on getting to this point whereat i am able to question the integrity (i.e. sanity) of our "accomplishment". i find me doing that a lot more often than i'd like to (or even, in fact, would) admit. "Woohoo baby! Yeah! No more shopping. No more haggling. No more poring over fine print. we are owners! Yeah! Now where, do you suppose, are we gonna store a quarter ton of W.W.I epoch armored tank rear-view-mirror adjustment-cable housings?"
It's not that i'm against owning a house across the board. i'm just not at all unassailable with regards to this particular house's accidental location: It sits static--island-like-- on an irritatingly large ocean of no fellowship whatever. In that sense, it's a lot like an anchor; and we have firmly secured ourselves to it with approximately 120,000 obligations.
The thing is about 1,000 sq. feet. It has a pitched roof, but i'll assign it, for the sake of the conversation, a mean height of 10 feet. That gives us 10,000 cu.ft. Now, naturally a lot of that is just air space, but if each of those cubes averages out to only ten pounds (which is probably fairly conservative) then the house comes out weighing around 100,000 lbs. That's 50 tons-- 200 times the weight of my pile of adjustment-cable housings.
Although i realize it's a purely conceptual attachment, i can't seem to shake free of the angst that washes over me when i consider dragging a 50 ton anchor to where i'd really rather be.
It's not that i'm against owning a house across the board. i'm just not at all unassailable with regards to this particular house's accidental location: It sits static--island-like-- on an irritatingly large ocean of no fellowship whatever. In that sense, it's a lot like an anchor; and we have firmly secured ourselves to it with approximately 120,000 obligations.
The thing is about 1,000 sq. feet. It has a pitched roof, but i'll assign it, for the sake of the conversation, a mean height of 10 feet. That gives us 10,000 cu.ft. Now, naturally a lot of that is just air space, but if each of those cubes averages out to only ten pounds (which is probably fairly conservative) then the house comes out weighing around 100,000 lbs. That's 50 tons-- 200 times the weight of my pile of adjustment-cable housings.
Although i realize it's a purely conceptual attachment, i can't seem to shake free of the angst that washes over me when i consider dragging a 50 ton anchor to where i'd really rather be.
posted by c at 1:49 PM
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i didn't actually buy any adjustment-cable housings; it just seems to me to be as arbitrary a thing to buy as anything else, in virtue of which arbitrariness is the very sort of thing i might be suckered into investing. No word on the MRI, but i keep waking up each morning without blurred vision or persuasively suggestive voices that only i can hear.
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