Hugh's Worthless Blog

Back on January 6 of this year I ordered a 24 port Netgear Gigabit switch for our building which only cost $199 from NewEgg and also came with a $30 rebate which would be shipped as a $30 VISA debit card. Almost three months later the rebate card actually showed up last Monday so I thought I would try to spend it wisely for the department. Since my son was on Spring Break from his high school last week, he accompanied me to work last Wednesday and I appointed him the task of trying to maximizing the $30 debit card for "stuff" for the department without going over $30 (so we would not have to charge the rest to my university Pro-Card which would be a pain.) However, he looked at wireless mice (which I consider a waste for most cases here in the department) and other unneeded items since he considers supplies like wired mice, ethernet cables and blank CD's boring. In any case I wanted to see what I could find for a total of $30 to purchase for our department . I went t...

A new house nearby popped on the market in the last couple weeks and this one was of particular interest to me, since it stands on the lot where our old former house stood! The address now is 9125 Pine Avenue in Brentwood , but when we lived there it was 9121 Pine, a 1950's 1800 square foot 3 bedroom brick ranch, much like the one we live in now just a mile or so away in Richmond Heights. After we sold that house in the mid 1990's, it was purchased by a couple who then sold it several years later to Kingbridge Homes who was building a bunch of "teardowns" or "fill-ins" in western Brentwood in the early to mid 2000's. Our old house sat on a double lot in Parkridge, so when it sold they demolished the house , split the lot in half and built two large blocky homes in its place.  So when we drove by the other day and I saw a "For Sale" sign pop up in front of it, I had to see what they were asking for it. I was rather surprised to see it lis...