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August 21, 2016: Parenting 2.0

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We entered the post-graduation phase of parenting in earnest a couple of weeks ago when the Boy relocated to Tinseltown to seek fame and fortune. No job yet, but he is getting an edumacation in apartment hunting. After pushing me to hurry up and fill out an application as a co-signer (complete with $45 per applicant fee), he learned that his roommate (not yet in town) was not on board with the unit because of cost. Took me five minutes to identify decent options for about $900/month less. Oy.

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  1. My dad had the other problem. I lived in a dangerous nightmare of an apartment after graduating because it was cheap and convenient. My dad spent a year talking me into finding something better.

    Now I just moved into a house nicer than his and he's a bit flummoxed.

    1. I had the good fortune of working through an alum of the Alma Mater for my first apartment in DC. My second place was a house (which I found and secured) just off East-West Highway at the edge of Rock Creek Park that I rented with two friends . No co-signers required in those days, although I had a job at that point.

  3. I'm having a pretty terrific start to my trip to Houston today. Found out on my way to the airport that my flight is delayed 40 minutes, which will leave me about twenty minutes to get off the plane in Dallas and make my connecting flight in what will likely be a different terminal. Then, when I got to the Madison airport, I find out they no longer have a great dane location! It's all goose island around here now. To make matters worse, I'm going to frickin Texas.

    1. DFW is annoyingly his when your connection is super thought. I had to run from terminal b to c but got there just a couple minutes too late. Fortunately there was another flight to Houston that had ten minutes left to board, which of course was in terminal a, so I had to run there. I juuust made it. Hilariously, I made this flight because it delayed, because American.

      1. When we lived in tejas we had several flights like that. If we were on the last flight into San Angelo you could bank on spending the night in DFW / flea bag motel near the airport.

  4. My daughter ended up having a bad off-campus housing experience last year ("We don't talk about the bottomless hole in the basement"), so this year she's back in the dorms, but because she's an upperclassman now she's getting a single room. After two years of roommate drama, it's probably for the best.

    1. I lived in that house. The landlord wouldn't acknowledge the cracked foundation that allowed spring snow melt to flood the basement. That was a lesson in checking references.

      1. I'm really happy I found an apartment in good condition at a good price. Stayed there three straight years. I had to have four roommates, but they were friends and generally good to live with. The thing was sold from the local, evil rental company to some guy for the last year so we even got most of our deposit back.

      1. oooh.

        Went to the Davisville Beer Shoppe last week with my buddy, the Music Man, and a couple of other academic types. They had a Heretic takeover event going on (and, uh, I just realized that I forgot to bring home my souvenir Heretic pint glass, which I paid an extra buck for). I had a couple of sours that were ok-not-wow. But I finished with a chocolate-hazelnut-vanilla porter on cask. It sounds like it would be too much, but it was excellent.

        1. We drove up to Duluth yesterday for the tall ships and stayed for dinner. Castle Danger Cream Ale with surf and turf was a nice finish to the day.

          2. When we were up nort earlier this summer I had a bunch of castle danger brewery's offerings. All pretty solid. I'm also a big fan of bent paddle's ipa.

      1. and the comments. From "triberulz":

        I think Valencia could of been a great player if Minnesota showed patience & let him mature.

        apparently, he hasn't matured a whole lot yet.

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