Bought a House

[SicEmBaylor]

I signed for a house in Vicksburg today. Final closing is on Friday. It's the place that I wanted and the entire process has been fast and amazingly painless.

[colleyvillesooner]

This should be good...

[yermom]

Vicksburg, what?

it seems like i've been missing something with you for a while now

what the heck is going on?

[Crucifax Autumn]

Good job man. Glad to hear it went as expected. I'll have to make a visit someday so you can toss me out that door to nowhere when I get too drunk and obnoxious.

[SicEmBaylor]

Good job man. Glad to hear it went as expected. I'll have to make a visit someday so you can toss me out that door to nowhere when I get too drunk and obnoxious.

I asked about that door. There used to be a balcony there. Oddly, the outside door that leads to the back apartment area (I'll explain later) has this awning over it with a big metal spike on top. I didn't ask about the spike, but I thought if I moved the spike under the suicide door I could make it doubly effective. Like, in case someone survived the fall they'd be impaled by the giant spike.

[olevetonahill]

Wheres the Pics Bro ?
We gonna have to have a drunken house warming.:D :D

[SicEmBaylor]

Wheres the Pics Bro ?
We gonna have to have a drunken house warming.:D :D

I'll post some in a bit and give a full rundown of everything and description of the place.

And that would be f'in awesome.

[Collier11]

so be sure and put a sign over the door in neon so you dont get drunk off of zimas and fall out of it :D

[Crucifax Autumn]

I asked about that door. There used to be a balcony there. Oddly, the outside door that leads to the back apartment area (I'll explain later) has this awning over it with a big metal spike on top. I didn't ask about the spike, but I thought if I moved the spike under the suicide door I could make it doubly effective. Like, in case someone survived the fall they'd be impaled by the giant spike.

Lightning rod?

[Collier11]

Great South Park episode on Comedy Central right now, FYI. Now back to the thread...

[swardboy]

As in Vicksburg, MS? Are you across from the confederate cemetary?

[soonerboomer93]

so your parents bought you a house there?

or did they get confused when you told them you'd been in college for 8 years and think you're a doctor?

[StoopTroup]

In Mississippi a spike outside the house is a sign that you are Ghey Friendly.

In Austin...it's a rainbow.

[1890MilesToNorman]

Why don't we jes call that the Austin Box door? He like's to pee from above. :D

Congrats SicEm, nice looking place.

[Boomer.....]

Congrats SicEm!

[badger]

Congrats on becoming a home owner. Hope you got your $8k from Obama so we can tease you about it :D

[Okla-homey]

Congrats.

Vicksburg NMP was the first fo-realz Silver Woah battlefield I ever toured. It is a very cool place, particulalrly given it was a great Federal victory that essentially split the Cornfederacy in two and cut-off texass beef from the starving johnnies in the eastern CS armies. And on the 4th of July 1864 to boot! The same day the Rebs get repulsed at G'burg. Yessir, Vickburg's fall was the beginning of the end for the Secesh, and that place is therefore holy ground. And it involved a surrender, as opposed to a knock-down drag-out assault on the town. Ol' Sam Grant really pulled a rabbit out of his hat on that one. Mainly because CS Gen'l Pemberton was a wussy.

But enjoy your new digs. srsly.

[SicEmBaylor]

Congrats.

Vicksburg NMP was the first fo-realz Silver Woah battlefield I ever toured. It is a very cool place, particulalrly given it was a great Federal victory that essentially split the Cornfederacy in two and cut-off texass beef from the starving johnnies in the eastern CS armies. And on the 4th of July 1864 to boot! The same day the Rebs get repulsed at G'burg. Yessir, Vickburg's fall was the beginning of the end for the Secesh, and that place is therefore holy ground. And it involved a surrender, as opposed to a knock-down drag-out assault on the town. Ol' Sam Grant really pulled a rabbit out of his hat on that one. Mainly because CS Gen'l Pemberton was a wussy.

But enjoy your new digs. srsly.

The house next door to us is where Teddy Roosevelt stayed when he announced his candidacy for re-election in Vicksburg. I detest TDR, but I understand you're something of a fan...

[StoopTroup]

Detesting the dead is probably a sign.

[Okla-homey]

The house next door to us is where Teddy Roosevelt stayed when he announced his candidacy for re-election in Vicksburg. I detest TDR, but I understand you're something of a fan...

I am a TR fan. He's on Mt Rushmore where he belongs as one of our greatest. That Jefferson guy though, well, let's just say they oughtta blast him off and replace him with Ronaldus Maximus, the Destroyer of Soviets and Master of Good Government.;)

[VeeJay]

Next time I come to Jackson to visit my folks, Ima run over and take you to the casino barge on the river there and we'll get likkered up.

[RUSH LIMBAUGH is my clone!]

Sorry if someone on ignore already asked, but what's a Wacoan like you, with roots in E. OK gonna do with that house in Vicksburg?

[SicEmBaylor]

Next time I come to Jackson to visit my folks, Ima run over and take you to the casino barge on the river there and we'll get likkered up.

This is a deal.

[SicEmBaylor]

Sorry if someone on ignore already asked, but what's a Wacoan like you, with roots in E. OK gonna do with that house in Vicksburg?

Live in it.

[RUSH LIMBAUGH is my clone!]

Live in it.Transferring to Vicksburg State U.?

[SicEmBaylor]

Transferring to Vicksburg State U.?

Ole Miss after establishing residency.

[RUSH LIMBAUGH is my clone!]

'D'Oh!

[yermom]

I am a TR fan. He's on Mt Rushmore where he belongs as one of our greatest. That Jefferson guy though, well, let's just say they oughtta blast him off and replace him with Ronaldus Maximus, the Destroyer of Soviets and Master of Good Government.;)

Jefferson? really?

[SicEmBaylor]

Jefferson? really?

There are two Presidents on Mt. Rushmore who, as Homey suggested, should be blasted off. Jefferson isn't one of them.

[GottaHavePride]

By "Jefferson", SicEm means William Jefferson Clinton, I'm sure. ;)

[RUSH LIMBAUGH is my clone!]

There are two Presidents on Mt. Rushmore who, as Homey suggested, should be blasted off. Jefferson isn't one of them.both R's of course?

[SicEmBaylor]

By "Jefferson", SicEm means William Jefferson Clinton, I'm sure. ;)

I adore Jefferson, but to be perfectly honest I've softened my opinion on Clinton a LOT.

Hell, Clinton>Bush>Obama.

[yermom]

i never had that much of an opinion on Clinton but when 2000 came around, i was wishing he could have stuck around

[Crucifax Autumn]

Well, back then right wing talk radio was claiming he WAS gonna stick around. There was a ton of conversation about black helicopters and how he was gonna declare martial law and refuse to leave office. It's a complete fallacy, this belief on the SO, that it's only been the last 9 years that the people of both sides on talk radio have been lunatics with no basis in reality.

[Crucifax Autumn]

I miss centrist politics. It was slowly dying for a long time and really began its death throes in Clinton's second term. By the time Bush got the furniture arranged to his liking after the housewarming in DC, the middle ground was pronounced dead.

[King Crimson]

Ole Miss after establishing residency.

buying a house and going to Ole Miss will be cheaper that writing that check to BU every semester.

[King Crimson]

and ole miss has cooler football uniforms than baylor.

[Okla-homey]

I miss centrist politics. It was slowly dying for a long time and really began its death throes in Clinton's second term. By the time Bush got the furniture arranged to his liking after the housewarming in DC, the middle ground was pronounced dead.

This is nothing. You should read about partisanship in the Adams people versus Jefferson people era.

And a happy side-effect of all this partisanship is the federal government is paralyzed and therefore has difficulty in passing any substantive legislation to scru with us.

[King Crimson]

This is nothing. You should read about partisanship in the Adams people versus Jefferson people era.

And a happy side-effect of all this partisanship is the federal government is paralyzed and therefore has difficulty in passing any substantive legislation to scru with us.

funnier still is how the "true republicans" can't figure out whether they are Jeffersonian or Adams peeps. except when it becomes opportunistic to be one or the other. Limbaugh did about 10 shows last summer about how he was a Jeffsersonian figure, leading the true believers into the desert away from the despot Adams/Obama. when, in reality, Rushy-poo is a lot closer to Adams.

It's easy enough to imagine a scenario whereby the Homey is calling fed gov gridlock/partisan hackling a bad thing when his interests are not being met. ;)

[delhalew]

Sic 'em next football season...SEC SEC SEC !;)

[yermom]

funnier still is how the "true republicans" can't figure out whether they are Jeffersonian or Adams peeps. except when it becomes opportunistic to be one or the other. Limbaugh did about 10 shows last summer about how he was a Jeffsersonian figure, leading the true believers into the desert away from the despot Adams/Obama. when, in reality, Rushy-poo is a lot closer to Adams.

It's easy enough to imagine a scenario whereby the Homey is calling fed gov gridlock/partisan hackling a bad thing when his interests are not being met. ;)

at least no one is shooting anyone anymore :D

[Veritas]

I detest TDR, but I understand you're something of a fan...
WTF? Teddy was a stone-cold badass. How can you possibly detest him?

[JohnnyMack]

funnier still is how the "true republicans" can't figure out whether they are Jeffersonian or Adams peeps. except when it becomes opportunistic to be one or the other. Limbaugh did about 10 shows last summer about how he was a Jeffsersonian figure, leading the true believers into the desert away from the despot Adams/Obama. when, in reality, Rushy-poo is a lot closer to Adams.

It's easy enough to imagine a scenario whereby the Homey is calling fed gov gridlock/partisan hackling a bad thing when his interests are not being met. ;)

Heh.

[RUSH LIMBAUGH is my clone!]

That's gonna be a tiresome commute from Vicksburg to wherever Oxford is, right? OK, looked it up. it's pretty far, Sicem. Better have all your classes on one day, so your overnight's are kept to a minimum.

[yermom]

WTF? Teddy was a stone-cold badass. How can you possibly detest him?

probably all of those pesky national parks

[C&CDean]

So, is Sicem ever gonna tell us WTF is going on?

The latest intel I have said he was in Waco, going to Baylor for the 27th consecutive year, driving a Miata to Houston via Midland, getting bitch slapped by a Vespa "biker", all while swilling Zima.

What's changed Sicem?

[yermom]

right. then there was the Harley and medical practice for sale

[JohnnyMack]

Didn't he get hit by a car and develop progeria*?

*Pat gets credit for that joke.

[SicEmBaylor]

That's gonna be a tiresome commute from Vicksburg to wherever Oxford is, right? OK, looked it up. it's pretty far, Sicem. Better have all your classes on one day, so your overnight's are kept to a minimum.

I don't intend to commute.

[Collier11]

SicEm bought a house and a 12 pack of Zima Lt, duh

[RUSH LIMBAUGH is my clone!]

I don't intend to commute.You moving Ole Miss to Vicksburg?

[SicEmBaylor]

You moving Ole Miss to Vicksburg?

I think it'd probably be easier to move me to Oxford and rent an apartment then try to move Ole Miss to Vicksburg.

[RUSH LIMBAUGH is my clone!]

I think it'd probably be easier to move me to Oxford and rent an apartment then try to move Ole Miss to Vicksburg.Or, move your new Vicksburg home to Oxford. You prolly can find one of those house-moving contractors somewhere.

[Chuck Bao]

I love those old houses.

My mom just told me that her brother's antebellum home on the banks of the Mississippi River (near Port Gibson and about 40 miles south of Vicksburg) burned to the ground last week. It was his wife's family home for more than 150 years. That is a really tough loss.

[Okla-homey]

Nice things about the area are, if you appreciate "Delta Blues" as a musical genre, you will feel you are on holy ground. That, and they have great BBQ joints.

Downside? It is Ethiopia-hot and humid there in summer. Drink lots of water.

[RUSH LIMBAUGH is my clone!]

I just listened to Van Morrison's "Tupelo Honey" album last night. His best, IMHO

"Gonna boogaloo down funky Broadway...til the cows come home"

[C&CDean]

So Sicem, you gonna tell us the story or not? Perhaps you already did, but I must have missed it. Seriously, and I ain't searching for it if it exists.

[StoopTroup]

My Cousins live in a town called Palmyra which was about 14 miles outside Hannibal, MO. When Mom and Dad would take us up to visit we would always go into Hannibal and see the old Tom Sawyer / Huck Finn houses Mark Twain wrote about. The last time I was up there was when the Mississippi and Missouri Rivers flooded. I was there when the Quincy Levy broke. Hannibal was about a foot from flooding. I helped fill sand bags to put on top of the levy while we were there.

It would have been ashame to see the town flood.

Anyway....SicEms house reminded me of some of those I was in as a kid.

http://www.americaslibrary.gov/assets/aa/twain/aa_twain_huckfinn_2_e.jpg

[SicEmBaylor]

Sans the suicide door.

[C&CDean]

Oh. So I guess we don't get to know WTF is going on.

[RUSH LIMBAUGH is my clone!]

Oh. So I guess we don't get to know WTF is going on.Here's part of it: Waco is passe. SicEm yearns for the Deep South. Arkie ain't Deep enough South, but Vicksgurg sure is, and isn't TOO far from his base. The college life is desired, and maybe a Southern Belle? He can woo 'em on the veranda, whilst sipping a mint julep, and looking into the sunset over the Mississippi River. Anything more isn't even a remote guess.

[StoopTroup]

It's my understanding that SicEm is gonna move to Vicksburg and complete his studies by candlelight just as Abraham Lincoln did. :D

[I Am Right]

I signed for a house in Vicksburg today. Final closing is on Friday. It's the place that I wanted and the entire process has been fast and amazingly painless.

First time buyer, enjoy the 8,000 free dollasr, just say thank you.

[King Crimson]

I just listened to Van Morrison's "Tupelo Honey" album last night. His best, IMHO

"Gonna boogaloo down funky Broadway...til the cows come home"

Tupelo is good, but Astral Weeks or His Band and the Street Choir. leaving out Moondance because whatever that's what everyone would say.

[RUSH LIMBAUGH is my clone!]

Tupelo is good, but Astral Weeks or His Band and the Street Choir. leaving out Moondance because whatever that's what everyone would say.I still prefer Tupelo, but all those albums are excellent-even St. Dominics Preview. He was quite the talent when young.

[Okla-homey]

Sic,

I found these on another laptop I own. This was a march in which Yours Truly participated a few years back commerating the beginning of the liberation of Secesh Mississippi by the "good guys."

The march route was fifteen miles long, began on the river where the original force disembarked, and was the same as the route the US Army of the Tennessee marched on April 30-May 1st 1863 during the run-up to the big win at Vicksburg.

It was hot. BTW, the really cool part was all the folks who came out along the route of march who offered us drinks and treats. Probably one of the coolest things I ever did in the living history hobby.

http://img705.imageshack.us/img705/3539/gibson19.jpg
The stuff on the bayonets are hunks of salt pork,three day's rations issued on the boat

http://img705.imageshack.us/img705/7273/gibsonwindsor.jpg
Here are some of the guys with the Windsor Plantation ruins in the background. Windsor was the largest cotton plantation in antebellum Mississippi -- it was visited in May 1863 by US forces during the march we were recreating. :D

[Okla-homey]

Sic,

I found these on another laptop I own. This was a march in which Yours Truly participated a few years back commerating the beginning of the liberation of Secesh Mississippi by the "good guys."

The march route was fifteen miles long, began on the river where the original force disembarked, and was the same as the route the US Army of the Tennessee marched on April 30-May 1st 1863 during the run-up to the big win at Vicksburg.

It was hot. BTW, the really cool part was all the folks who came out along the route of march who offered us drinks and treats. Probably one of the coolest things I ever did in the living history hobby.

http://img705.imageshack.us/img705/3539/gibson19.jpg
The stuff on the bayonets are hunks of salt pork,three day's rations issued on the boat

http://img705.imageshack.us/img705/7273/gibsonwindsor.jpg
Here are some of the guys with the Windsor Plantation ruins in the background. Windsor was the largest cotton plantation in antebellum Mississippi -- it was visited in May 1863 by US forces during the march we were recreating. :D

Bump---Sic,
In my best "Fatal Attraction"-style crazy lady Glenn Close voice...I WILL NOT BE IGNORED!

[GottaHavePride]

He's not ignoring you. Those pics just gave him the vapors. ;)

[SicEmBaylor]

We used to always stop at Windsor ruins on our way to Port Gibson. I almost stopped on my way to Natchez to take pics of D'Evereux (my sister is named after the plantation), but it's just too depressing.

For the first time I noticed that Port Gibson's city motto is, "Too Pretty to Burn." I was somewhat amused by that in a darkly humorous sort of way.

[SicEmBaylor]

WTF? Teddy was a stone-cold badass. How can you possibly detest him?

I'm a Taft man.
TDR was way too progressive for my tastes.

[RUSH LIMBAUGH is my clone!]

I'm a Taft man.
TDR was way too progressive for my tastes.a land-grabbin' fiend.

[sooner_born_1960]

Sicem,
Why are you moving to Vicksburg? What are you going to do there? Are you going to complete your education somewhere? Do you have a job? I guess I missed a post somewhere, too.