Away again? Buying a house, and Spam
Again, I have to apologise for being away from my site for a while. But buying a house is by far the most stressful, time consuming, and irritating “project” that I’ve ever attempted. From structural surveys to getting mortgage protection, each task gets you one step closer to the end goal, but also can trip you up in so many ways. By far the biggest delay in our case was the mortgage protection. The problems here started with the GP survey delays and included DD mandate problems and missing faxes and letters. I believe it to be resolved now, after a trip into the insurance company office, but we’ll see shortly I think.
Just as an aside here – I really wouldn’t have gotten anywhere with this process without the help of my mortgage advisor with Bank Of Ireland on Camden street. They were really helpful and I can’t recommend them enough.
So besides all that, what else have I been doing? I just started a couple of projects that I can’t really dedicate enough time to at the minute but I will as soon as the house is finished. There will be more info on these shortly… They’re interesting to me and I hope they will be to a couple of other people.
Also, It would appear that either the bots or something have at least a sense of humour. I wrote this article on website comments recently – Comments, Comments, everywhere… and it is being hammered by SPAM comments. About 100 comments in 2 days. It’s interesting and gave me a chuckle. Though once you think about it, its probably been sent my way from an outbound link on the Boston Globe Website. I’d like to believe it was a funny spammer but alas it probably isn’t!
