A few people have asked, so I should probably point out that we did not get the house I recently mentioned was a possibility. Someone else had put a "verbal offer" on the place, which isn't really kosher with most Realtors.
We continue plugging away at the house hunt, but it has been pretty trying for Karen. The places in our price range always have some crazy quirks ("What, who doesn't want to do laundry in the kitchen?!") but we're still optimistic. When Karen inevitably lands a job, that will help us be able to consider some more expensive places, although we'd still like to stay on the lower end.
On an unrelated note (except in the sense of disappointment), this year's massive City Stages festival in Birmingham just doesn't quite have the kind of lineup that would pull me into a crowd of drunken hilljacks:
Snoop Dogg
Hank Williams, Jr.
The Allman Brothers Band
The Beach Boys
Yellowcard
Shinedown
Trapt
Puddle of Mudd
Los Lonely Boys
Marty Stuart and His Fabulous Superlatives
John Hiatt with The North Mississippi Allstars
The Derek Trucks Band
Oteil and the Peacemakers
Brandi Carlile
The subdudes
Radney Foster
James McMurtry
The Plimsouls
Eliot Morris
Tommy Emmanuel
Alexi Murdoch
Joshua Radin
Little Memphis Blues Orchestra
I haven't been to a City Stages since 1996, but that was when I discovered Squirrel Nut Zippers. They were buried in the lineup, and we just went because their style sounded cool. So there might be some gems hiding in there. Thoughts?
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James McMurtry and John Hiatt aren't bad, but I'm not a $28-a-day kind of fan of theirs.
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