Whee!

Last night was fun, I wish that the guys didn't have to get up so early, it would have been fun to stay. And you all didn't tell me about the school girl thing! I could have broken out my authentic skirt! :) Hopefully the birthday boy won't kill me after he listens to the complete birthday mix. . .

School related rambling ( Read more... )

Yay

Someone made an appointment to view our house at 2:30 today. Its a broker that's been here already, and before he brought his person in they came to the open house. So, if the broker is bringing the same people (who knows, they may not be) its viewing #3.

We're set up on a website where all of our viewings are tracked, and brokers can set up appointments there without contacting our broker (easier to schedule). They have to give 2 hours notice, and call the house and send an e-mail to notify us of appointments (we can veto of we want to). After the viewings they can go back to the website and post comments. This broker coming today commented the last time that the people were "interested" in the house, that they "maybe" would want another viewing and that they "maybe" wanted to make an offer. That's hopeful at least.

Someone came last night - they posted comments that the client thought the inside was well maintained, but wasn't interested in making an offer, ah well. One good sign is, that every broker that's commented has said that they think that the price is set fairly - our broker was curious to see what the others would say. Its weird, that 17 days there have been 10 people to see the house not counting whoever showed up at the open house. Having strangers in our house has been weird, but I think I'm starting to get used to it. Perhaps having siblings and random people all over the house, sharing a bedroom with said siblings at times, and not having a lot of privacy has something to do with that.

Now, Brian is away, and our broker is away until next Wednesday (though, while he's on vacation his brother is in charge of our issues). Watch someone will make an offer *wishful thinking* and I'll go to the open house tomorrow and love the place (yet, not be able to do much of anything since everyone is away). Of course, its not in good walking distance to Moody, but its a large house with a lot of land given the price. Either there's something seriously wrong with it or they've under-priced it, and it will fly off the market in an afternoon: link

It would be so nice to find a buyer and not have to keep our house clean for viewings all of the time. Then at least we could shift our efforts to packing, cleaning and finding a new house. It would also be nice to not have to worry about hiding valuables for fear that someone could swipe them.

Back to homework - analysis are run, now I just have to go through my stack of printed results and interpret them (and relate them to the results I found from my Jan-Dec 2003 data set). You know, if I didn't have a topic that my professor was excited about I'd be done with the analysis by now. Most other people can get away with using only one data set . . . why I had to open my big mouth about not only comparing variables within a year, but also comparing between years - I'll never know :)

Yikes

The last time this realtor came to our house we had like, 5 minutes notice. It was the day of our open house which had ended at 2:30 and at 3:00 he made an appointment for 3:00. We were in our driveway taking groceries out of my trunk, and he pulled up with a whole family, apologizing for the short notice. I guess he had called our realtor who said it was OK to come by, given it wasn't too long after the open house (and he knew we were trying to be really flexible).

The guy showed up an hour before the appointment today! He said "oh sorry, I'm a little early". Its a good thing I wasn't in the shower or anything :) I feel bad, because I was planning on being out when he got here - I know that I feel really awkward looking at houses when their owners are there. Ah well! I sat on the front porch and read my mail while they poked around inside. Its so nice outside.

The people across the street have been raking leaves all day and it reminds me that we need to do that here - another "after school is done for the semester" item :)

data rambling:
On that note, now that I'm analyzing the results of my 2004 data its looking like it may be too young for me to use it . . . the number of days per admission are really high (I'm wondering if the units measure is overstated, because its counting not only inpatient days but also any procedures, tests, etc that happened). If these claims are in-process still it could be that the claims department hasn't made the additional lines "informational" (i.e. those services aren't paid for separately - they roll into the per-day or per-case payment rate . . . thus the information that they happened is on the claim but those informational lines have 0 cost and 0 units typically).