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   At least she's always available...

New iMac!

For those of you who know me well, my workhouse computer that I create everything on and store everything important to me is my beloved iMac from 2006 still running OS X Tiger. Ouch. It's never frozen up, but damn if it isn't slow running PhotoShop or rendering a video. And did I mention, I only have 200MB of hard-drive space left?

So I finally ordered a new computer that won't be obsolete, at least to my needs, for a while. I can't wait to have enough room for PhotoShop projects and a new webcam to record better quality videos. Which reminds me, I need to find my Canon camcorder battery charger. It's only a year old and I've already lost it. Sad.

Old House Dreams.

I recently came across a blog called, Old House Dreams (oldhousedreams.com), and it's a site where each posting is any historic house built earlier than the 1950s that's for sale is showcased, usually from listings from Zillow.com.

What's interesting is that most of these old houses are from around 1880s-1900s, yet some even go far back as 1690! A lot of these are in dire need of fixing up and are listed as low as $30,000, but some of these houses are fully restored to their Victorian grandeur, and look absolutely amazing.

For this post, I'm going to use an example of this 1895 Queen Anne home located in Barnesville, Ohio. It looks like it hasn't been touched too much except for hideous white-out paint and some wallpaper I wouldn't put on a 1958 single-wide trailer, but just think of what could be done to this house.

That staircase! That staircase! THAT STAIRCASE! OMG!

 

The original link can be found here, http://oldhousedreams.com/page/33/, but with each new posting, the links change in ascending order.

I've always wanted to restore an old house. Of course, I'd be hiring some slave labor to take care of that, because it's not like I'm going to hurt my back.

sources: [oldhousedreams.com]