Today [5]

[LADYPINKtomato1]

Carl L hi.. You've accomplished a lot already today.. Congrats.. Plz keep the snow..
even tho I love to watch it falling gently to the ground.

 

[StalkeR]

Congrats Randy

 

[CarlTR6]

Congratualtions, Randy!

@LPt. Looks like we are going to get some relief for few days anyway. High tomorrow in the 70's! YEA!

 

[A Guy]

Today, it's bloody cold here in Finland!!!

Reindeercicles!!

Today my friend Randy completed his first year in SF

Happy Anniversary Randy

A Guy

 

[Imperfect1]

Got an email from a friend back home in Finland this morning. What an Christmas present he got!

He and his wife wanted to buy a small holiday apartment in Gibraltar, or the vicinity in the Spanish side of the border. They were there three weeks late October, to see what's available. Not too much, Gibraltar is small and market very restricted.

Two weeks ago he got a call from someone working on the agency in Gibraltar they are using. A small one bedroom apartment they had already seen and made an offer which the seller refused as too low, is now available. Owner has not got a better offer, and is finally willing to sell. He needs 20,000 € as soon as possible to secure the deal. My friend transferred the money, everything should be OK. Right?

No. The money is missing, as well as this former employee of the real estate agency. The owner of the apartment has not agreed to sell, in fact he had withdrawn his apartment from market early November. Police both in Gibraltar and Finland are now involved, looking for the rogue real estate agent.

Nice Christmas present. But, even he is a friend of mine I have to ask how stupid must a man be to transfer that kind of the money only because of one phone call, without any signed papers or guarantees?

Kari

Sorry. Sad to say, yeah, that wasn't too prudent. That's why we use escrows in most of the US, so that there is a simultaneous transfer of title to the buyer and money to the seller. Or if escrows aren't available, then lawyers to oversee the process. . .

 

[Kari]

That's the normal procedure here, too. I simply can not understand how a person I know to be a hard core business man can fall to this kind of trap.

 

[StalkeR]

Tonight in Macedonia (exaclty in Veles) started to rain snow again. I'll sing,Let in snow from Frank Sinatra

 

[LADYPINKtomato1]

Stalker sing a bit louder.. I can't hear you......lol...

 

[StalkeR]

My bro is sleeping,I don't wanna to wake up him :roflmao:

 

[LADYPINKtomato1]

Congratualtions, Randy!

@LPt. Looks like we are going to get some relief for few days anyway. High tomorrow in the 70's! YEA!

Carl hi... Nice, very nice for you down there.. I hope the O J crop won't be ruined.. I should have bought their stock a long time ago...as much as I drink and use.
Was a tiny bit warmer here this afternoon... now we get rain. beats what the upper USA has gotten.

 

[LADYPINKtomato1]

My bro is sleeping,I don't wanna to wake up him :roflmao:

LOL ....ohhh okay.. I've been there done that.. ssshhhh.. not a nice thing to do to him for sure... what's the old saying ???..
"Let a sleeping dog lie "

 

[DocBrown]

Cable company working on Fiber-optic lines again today. No internet for 12 hours

Back on now

 

[Hopalong X]

Doc

You on cable? I figured you had one of your own satellites tied in to the Wayback Machine.
Like those military jobs but improved and actually works.

 

[LADYPINKtomato1]

Oh Doc.. that almost me makes me want to give up on my pc.. even when It's not the problem. glad it's back on for you tonite.

 

[CarlTR6]

Congratualtions, Randy!

@LPt. Looks like we are going to get some relief for few days anyway. High tomorrow in the 70's! YEA!

Carl hi... Nice, very nice for you down there.. I hope the O J crop won't be ruined.. I should have bought their stock a long time ago...as much as I drink and use.
Was a tiny bit warmer here this afternoon... now we get rain. beats what the upper USA has gotten.

I'm afraid a lot of the OJ crop got hit hard. They will do some fast harvesting and juice most of it.

Cable company working on Fiber-optic lines again today. No internet for 12 hours

Back on now

Now that is awful!

 

[A Guy]

Cable company working on Fiber-optic lines again today. No internet for 12 hours

Back on now

Bad enough, but I'd have to take the day off too! Glad you have your fix back

A Guy

 

[Hopalong X]

We have ice on the roads. Less than a 1/4". You ought to see all the traffic mess on the news. Interstates closed. People stuck everywhere.

This is live now. People stuck for the past 3-4 hours on the road and can't go anywhere.
Fire trucks and police cars can't get to crashes etc. in some places. No traction even with chains on the tires.

Salt trucks aren't getting around to well either plus all the traffic in the way so they can't salt and the cars can't get out of the way.

What a mess.

I'm snug as a bug here at home.

 

[LADYPINKtomato1]

We have ice on the roads. Less than a 1/4". You ought to see all the traffic mess on the news. Interstates closed. People stuck everywhere.

This is live now. People stuck for the past 3-4 hours on the road and can't go anywhere.
Fire trucks and police cars can't get to crashes etc. in some places. No traction even with chains on the tires.

Salt trucks aren't getting around to well either plus all the traffic in the way so they can't salt and the cars can't get out of the way.

What a mess.

I'm snug as a bug here at home.

Hopy you are one fortunate guy to be safely home during all of this mess..Keep it up there.. lol... don't allow it to drift south of you please.

 

[A Guy]

We have ice on the roads. Less than a 1/4". You ought to see all the traffic mess on the news. Interstates closed. People stuck everywhere.

This is live now. People stuck for the past 3-4 hours on the road and can't go anywhere.
Fire trucks and police cars can't get to crashes etc. in some places. No traction even with chains on the tires.

Salt trucks aren't getting around to well either plus all the traffic in the way so they can't salt and the cars can't get out of the way.

What a mess.

I'm snug as a bug here at home.

Gotta love California May be expensive, but no ice, snow, etc. A Guy

 

[LADYPINKtomato1]

A Guy hi.. awww.... but snow is good at times.. if it doesn't hang around very long..
maybe a few days at most.....makes it seem like winter / Christmas .
Do you have your shopping completed yet ?