The Countertop Chronicles

This house would sure be a great addition to any gunnies collection!!

The John Browning Mansion – complete with turrets, dormers, grand staircases, amazing hardwood floors, original windows & moulding, new commerical-grade kitchen with corian counters, potential new baths for bed and breakfast use. A definite must see!

The NY Times even gave it a nice write up!

OGDEN, UTAH

WHAT: An eight-bedroom two-bath mansion with two half baths

HOW MUCH: $374,900

PER SQUARE FOOT: $54.24

SETTING: This mansion, formerly used as a Y.W.C.A., was originally built in 1900 for John Browning — of Browning firearms — on a corner lot in Ogden, population 83,000, a city between the Wasatch Mountains and the Great Salt Lake. According to the listing agent, Ogden was a railroad hub that fell into disrepair by the 1950s but picked back up in recent years with the influx of outdoor types and sporting-goods manufacturers, including Amer Sports (parent company of Salomon and Atomic), and Rossignol. There are three ski resorts within 25 miles: Snowbasin, Powder Mountain and Wolf Mountain.

This house is in a neighborhood of older homes within two miles of big-box shopping and one mile of boutique shopping in a district along 25th Street, near Wall Avenue. Ogden is about 40 miles from Salt Lake City, which has an international airport. The Wasatch Mountains are visible from nearly everywhere in town.

COMMON SPACES: Most of the house is original, including a banister stretching from the entry to the attic, beveled windows, hardwood floors and fireplaces. There are built-in cupboards in the dining room and storage drawers on each of the house’s three floors.

PERSONAL SPACES: There are two bedrooms in the finished basement, one on the main level and four on the second level. An eighth bedroom is in the attic suite, which includes a living room that, according to the listing agent, served as a workshop for John Browning (and includes remnants of a wiring system used to buzz his maids). Most bedrooms have views of the yard and neighboring historic houses; the attic has treetop and mountain views.

OUTDOOR SPACE: A fenced-in, fully landscaped yard on two sides of the house, facing the street.

TAXES: $2,400 a year (estimated, if owner-occupied); around $4,500 a year if home is converted to apartments or used as a rental

CONTACT: Sue Wilkerson, Terra Venture Real Estate, (801) 393-1188; www.suewilkerson.com

I’m the lawyer. Not the farmer. Don’t come to me when my clients don’t buy your product. Perhaps its because your an asshole from Boston and folks in rural america don’t appreciate yankee strangers pulling up to their farms, telling them it smells like shitan and that you have a product that will help keep them from being environmental criminals.

Your lucky they didn’t shoot some rock salt in your skinny yankee behind.

And after they tell you to get lost, don’t come to me looking for a $50k market research handout and sales leads and tell me my clients have no interest in being good neighbors or protecting the environment or that your product has been endorsed by Robert “The Heroin Addict” Kennedy.

That is all

I am going to be in Minneapolis next week. Was hoping to visit the Mall of America, but when I went to their web page I was greaeted by this obnoxious message:

In order to view this page you need JavaScript and Flash Player 7+ support!

So I guess we can blame, in part, the Minneapolis Economy on the asinine web developers the Mall of America has hired who insist on preventing significant numbers of American’s from deciding whether to spend their money there.

Good. I’ll just go to Cabela’s instead.

The fall is starting to look pretty good.

I’ve got the following hunts lined up:

OK Mule Deer and Antelope
NC Black Bear
PA grouse hunt
MS duck hunt
SD pheasant hunt

Oh yeah, I’m leasing land on the Eastern shore of Maryland for Whitetails and Sitka (not to mention waterfowl).

That said, it sucks for many others and will only get worse. Tonight, on the way home, I was approqched by a guy at the gas station looking for help filling his car up. He was driving a Benz and was from purcelville, out near Loudon County.

From the looks of him, he was clearly a computer guy, yet wearing a t shirt and jeans, panhandling 50 miles from home. Said he used to work for aol, was laiid off and just finally vot a job unloading trucks for TJ Maxx. He hadn’t been paid yet, and so he didn’t have the $$$ for gas for the 50 mile commute back home.

That sucks, so I filled his car up.

We should all try to remember those in less fortunate situations. As the saying goes, but for the grace of god. . . .

And the numbers of the unfortunate are certain to grow as Congress spends our propserity away.

I received about 20 applications for an internship this fall.

None of them were very good (if you know someone who is interested in a great internship – no photocopying, but actually being my shadow as we meet and lobby Government officials (this summers intern will join me at the White House next week, has engaged with Nancy Pelosi (spit) and Harry Reid and successfully negotiated for very specific loopholes in the Waxman Markey bill with me as well as participated in multi party settlement discussions between my clients, DOJ, and Federal Agencies and environmental group and litigated across the country), shoot me an email).

Usually, if there is no one who interests me I just simply decide not to hire someone. I actually pay a decent rate for an intern – it works out to about $35k a year – though its only for 1/3 of the year – still decent for a college kid – and I don’t want to be a baby sitter but want someone who is intellectually stimulating.

Anyway, I got no good resumes. Well, no competent resumes. But I did get one from a girl at a large southern state school. All she listed on her resume as a credential is that she was a bartender/wait staff at a local restaurant and is in a sorority – that by the looks of it – is populated by only very attractive, very tan, girls. Oh, and she wrote a rather interesting paper on prostitution. Which has nothing to do with my area of expertise, but . . . .

the question is, in light of all that, should I consider hiring her?? I’m tempted.

Test test test

So let me get this straight.

A former pro bowl quaterback was running around behind his wife’s back, with a drug addict cocktail waitress – and the wife had no idea there were any problems in the relationship while the drug addict cocktail waitress had told her family that she was selling her furniture to move in with Mr. Quarterback since he was in the process of divorcing his wife (which wasn’t happening) and then . . . . something happens to make her want to shoot this guy and then kills herself (like, perhaps . . . and I’m just speculating here – Mr. Quarterback told her he was married and not getting a divorce) and we are supposed to think this is the gun’s fault??

Right.

Some folks, Uncle and Chris Byrne come to mind, have discussed recently why they don’t use facebook. I agree, but unlike perhaps Uncle I find facebook to be far more user friendly as far as posting goes. Basically, I always have my crackb erry with me, but don’t always have access to my laptop. And when I do, at home at night, I’m just too burned out to spend time with blog posts – yet the snariness is alive and well with facebook along with the added benefit that I can do all – post and upload pics direct from my own blackberry FB app.

Of course, I’m writting this on my crackberry, but its through the cumbersome internet browser which provides a pretty lacking experience.

So my bleg is this (and its sort of repeated) but does WP and/or photobucket have either a blackberry or iPhone dedicated app that will allow me to automatically and directly post text and/or camera pics to the ol’ blog here?