No house yet.

We had a fairly odd weekend.  We spent most of it running around looking at houses.  We picked one out that we liked, made a good offer on it, happened to run into the builder when we were looking at it, and then had the whole thing fall through because the builder wants to change the property line to give an odd chunk of the land to a neighboring house.  He did not say anything about that when we put the offer in on the house.  It only came up after the fact.  The deal is not dead yet, but it has a very erratic heart beat and is breathing very shallowly.  That is OK.  We have found that there are lots and lots of great deals out there.  Our real estate agent, Joe is awesome.  He works very hard and really advocates for us in a way that is beyond professional.  Joe was born for this kind of work.  The good news is that we can wait as long as necessary to get the right house.  We have a good rental that is closer to my work than we will be able to buy so there is even an upside to that.

The really good part of the weekend was that we had a great time at lunch after meeting on Sunday.  We got together at a Mexican restaurant named La Rancherita with a young couple from our meeting.  They are engineers (well, one of them is a computer scientist, but that is close enough) and seem to be kindred spirits.  They do computer junk and even write some code when they need to.  Kendall runs a Free BSD server at his house.  How cool is that?  Linux is great, but, if you are a hacker, Free BSD is truly the choice of purists.