I did some checking and I should be able to get most of the cost covered by grants. I am planning on applying for the Spring semester. There is a lot I have to do, apply for financial aid, apply to ASU, get my transcripts set to ASU. My goal is to graduate by the time kiddo does in 2012.

Of course things will not be easy. I tried to get my FAFSA application in today, but ran into trouble because I need a federal PIN # for an electronic signature, and when I tried to get one, the system said I had one already, so I checked, and yea, I did, but it was made inactive because it was from back in 2002 when I had applied last. So I am dealing with trying to get that fixed so I can get my application in, but I figure it is going to be like this the whole way.

But here is a pic of the new casa…

There is still a lot of work to do, but at least I am working on something that is mine.

In November I was informed that the condo that my daughter and I live in was being put on the market in January, and we would be on a month to month till it sold or we moved out. At one time I had concidered buying the condo, but the price they were asking was way out of line with the market. So I started looking around, and the more I looked, the more interesting it bacame. I went and got prequalified for a home loan and found a realtor and started looking at houses.

Lets just say that house hunting in the current market is interesting. I am currently on the 3rd house I have made an offer on. The first one was a short sale and went to auction before my offer was even seen. The second was also a short sale, and the bank that held the morgage said it could take 45 days to approve the offer, and this was 2 weeks after I made it. During this time I continued to look, and a found a great 3br, 2 bath home that was bank owned and had only been on the market a couple days. I made an offer and it was accepted, so now I am going through the process, my loan is in final authorization process, the inspection has been done, so at this point I am just waiting for the bank to say yes or no on my loan. If things go right I should be in my new house the first part of March. 

Also while all this has been going on, the economy has been heading down the drain, and has finally hit us at my work. We are laying off staff, one from my IT staff, and there will be pay cuts, though no one has said how much they will be yet. I have been meeting with the CEO and the Controller quite a bit the past 7 days, and we are working on ways to make it possible for the staff to do more work with less people, and improve processes. 

So as I said a bit crazy…

Hadn’t done one of these “What are you” type things for a while, and as a guy, kind of wondered which one I would be…

You Scored as Betty Page     Betty Page 50% Audrey Hepburn 31% Mae West 31% Betty Grable 31% Mariyln Monroe 25% Jayne Mansfield 13%

Can’t complain about that

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Well as if I don’t have enough to do and do a poor job of keeping up on posting on the blogs I have, I have started a new one. This one is to chronicle my journey along the road of enlightenment to Flex nirvana.

For those of you who do not know what Flex is, it is a programming language, from Adobe. It is basically for developers to program Flash, instead of using the Flash environment, which is more for designers. I am adding a link to it on the sidebar, but here is a link too..  My Flex Blog.

I am not going to get into why I am getting into Flex, or what I am doing with it here, you will just have to go to the Flex blog and see