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  1. hawing
    New year, new random MLB news and discussion thread.
  2. hawing
    Surely this has become more commonplace since the economy took a nosedive. I don't mean to be snoopy, but how's it going, Adam? How much you update us is completely up to you, of course, but I won't lie - I've been thinking about you and your situation this weekend.
  3. hawing
    Based on what you've told us, it's true that the will (if there is one) probably wouldn't shed light on who is the executor. However, it could alert you to assets you didn't know your father had, or at least serve as kind of a summary of what loose ends need to be tied up.
  4. hawing
    Another thought: Your electricity and heat cannot be shut off during the winter (between November 1 and April 15) due to lack of payment. This is a statewide thing, despite the Madison references in this link: madison.com link It doesn't mean you want to get behind on those bills if you can help it, because you could lose those services come April 15; but you should not have that particular rug pulled out from under you right now. Good call, too, by LouisEly on the reverse mortgage vs. home equity loan. If you know where your father banked, you'd need to contact that/those institution(s) soon anyway.
  5. hawing
    Obviously I don't know the whole picture, but that is not a crazy debt level. I've got student employees who take out that much annually in student loans. Unless the house is a falling apart crack house, some equity should be available to you. How soon it is literally available to you may depend on how soon a death certificate is available and you're officially the 'personal representative.' I'd like to think that at least some of the parties you'll have to deal with (funeral home, bank where house mortgage is, etc.) would be willing to hear out your unenviable situation and work with you to keep things manageable. It's not like you immediately have to produce $12K in bags of cash.
  6. hawing
    Well, the contents of the hawing 2012 relish tray might help detox you from typical holiday food. Those Tenuta's trays...yeah, they would not.
  7. hawing
    Not to add to your woes, but do you know if your father had a will? Even if he did not, there's a default path his estate will take. You should be able to get help sorting that out. Like DHonks, I'm not looking to one-up (or one-down?), but I will share a bit about our experience when our father died four years ago (actually four years ago this week). He had estranged himself from the family by leaving almost 30 years prior, and as far as we could tell (he was living in another state when he died) he had done zero planning for his estate. He'd been hospitalized in intensive care for about a week prior to his death, and my initial concern was whether the hospital would come after my siblings and me for those bills. However (and thankfully), that is apparently not how it goes. I think the house he had was foreclosed on, which didn't involve us or displace anyone; and somehow in the end there were just enough funds in the estate to cover funeral and estate lawyer costs. If you are doing a funeral or similar service for your father, the funeral home staff can point you in useful directions. In that line of business, relatively few customers are familiar with how to proceed, so they are accustomed to answering even the most elementary questions. We kept the costs for our father's funeral quite low, while keeping it classy (for lack of a better term); if you want more information on how we did that, send me a PM. Do you have siblings or extended family? They should be able to help, or at least you can put your heads together on what to do. Again, best wishes. You'll be able to move through this.
  8. hawing
    Lake-effect from Winnebago?
  9. hawing
    Over at the hawing compound, we were switching between football and a GSN Pyramid marathon. Now I'm lurking on the internets. Woot woot. Not super eager for 2013 but I'm OK with closing the door on 2012.
  10. hawing
    Nice of you to ask. We went with green grapes, cherry tomatoes, baby carrots, some little pickles that the SO picked out, and Italian pretzels from Brennan's. No olives because we confirmed that the Tenuta's platter would have olives. The only items for which we had leftovers were the pretzels (OK with me because I like them) and the pickles (OK with SO because he likes them). So I consider it a success. Next time I think I'll replace the carrots with raspberries. Or maybe replace the pickles. The Tenuta's platters were still awesome: one antipasto with olives, cheeses and a bunch of Italian cold cuts, and one with shrimp.
  11. hawing
    There are still some road signs facing just the right/wrong way, covered in snow so you can't tell what they say.
  12. hawing
    Oh, man, Adam, I'm sorry to hear it. I'm not in this position just yet, but my understanding is it's common to feel kind of orphaned once both your parents are gone. Are you still enrolled at UWM? If you are, you've already got segregated fees going toward the student health service - contact them and get your fee's worth. If you aren't but are insured, contact your clinic. If you aren't insured, call 2-1-1 and explain your situation briefly. I think most people would need help processing something like what you face. Best wishes.
  13. hawing
    I originally wasn't a fan of the "random gold stripe" either. Then came game 5 of the 2011 NLDS, when the teenage son of a coworker who sat with us bought one of the ball-glove design BP caps. I told him we'd find out by the end of the day whether that was his new lucky cap or his new unlucky cap. You know how that game turned out, so I've semi-rationally loved that design ever since. So, this explains why the now-old designs were clearance priced at the clubhouse sale in December. Some of the new designs look OK to me, but not being the trucker hat type, I think I'll stick with what I have. I also think it's a wonder that the Braves cap turned out as it did. Maybe they want to capture the interest of remaining Milwaukee Braves fans? I do like Toronto's use of the maple leaf, Oakland's use of the elephant, and the ball-head mascot characters on the Mets and Reds' caps.
  14. hawing
    It always amazed me how many students at Madison would wait for 15 minutes for a bus and take it 5 blocks. I'm frankly split on the value of the UW-Madison bus system being so free and easy. Does it get students in the "public transportation is OK" mindset (which could serve them well, depending on where they go after college), or does it merely discourage exercise? Speaking as one who had to scale Bascom Hill multiple times a day in the 1980s, I acknowledge that hill isn't fun; but there is a degree of irony, if not hilarity, to see someone running from University Avenue to the Union to catch the 80 to Social Science. Update on employee who thought yesterday was too cold to walk: she sent a second message later acknowledging that she felt like a cad "knowing that you walked." But she just hates the cold. I think she wanted another snow day without wanting to come out and say so. We'll probably chat about that next week.
  15. hawing
    So, this day-after-the-blizzard, the UW-Madison campus and state agencies are open, but Metro buses are not running. I usually bus to work and walk home, so while it was a minor drag to walk in this morning, I did it and it only took about 10 minutes longer than usual. I sent an email to my co-workers first saying I'd be on foot and might not arrive by 8:00. (I got here by 8:15 - 45 minute walk instead of 35.) One of my student employees replied to that very message (the one saying I'll be walking and will get there as soon as I can), asking if she could stay home today because it's very cold and the buses aren't running and she would have to walk. She lives closer to campus than I do. There are so few people here that she's really not needed today. But she clearly didn't see the irony in replying to my "walking in" message to say she doesn't want to walk in. That's aggravating. Sending a separate message would have aggravated me less.
  16. hawing
    Yeah, I was realizing that there may well be nothing in Ragstock that ISN'T flammable.
  17. hawing
    For those of you familiar with State Street in Madison, my Twitter feed suggests there's a fire at Ragstock, for which Johnson St. has been closed at Broom and the Gap and Soap Opera have been evacuated. Our TV service is out again, so I haven't found more information yet.
  18. hawing
    The snow in Madison (near west side) seems not as heavy as before, but the visibility is worse and I'm not a complete fan of how the upper branches of the big trees down the block are swaying. Remember, in Dane County it's not a blizzard for another hour!
  19. hawing
    I don't know. I just told the SO about this signing and he responded with a noise that was either a spit-take or a raspberry.
  20. hawing
    I look forward to someday scoring a $5 Gorzelanny shirsey at a clubhouse sale. But really, I accept this. Now Corey Hart isn't at the bottom of the roster when measured by eye-candy rankings.
  21. hawing
    I'm pretty sure there is no beating Tenuta's. What we need to do is carve our own niche in the Christmas Eve snacking table. Brennan's has some ginormous grapes; I'm leaning toward pickles and a fruit assortment.
  22. hawing
    I'm moderately bummed that I slept through all the thundersnow - even the rumble that scared one of our cats. On the up side, I got a decent night's sleep!
  23. hawing
    So, it took the state until after 9:00 PM to conclude that state agencies in the blizzard counties should be closed Thursday, but the word is now out to those who need to know. Also, I got to and from my haircut before the precipitation really got going. Everything's comin' up hawing?
  24. hawing
    UPDATE FOR 2012: We (finally) got our food assignments for Monday's dinner with the S.O.'s family and we are back on relish-tray duty. This time the description is "Relish tray - olives and pickles." But the same household which has been bringing the awesome Tenuta's antipasto platter the last few years is in charge of "hors d'oeuvres" - which probably means they'll bring another awesome platter that already has olives. So I'm thinking we can put whatever the hell we want in Relish Tray 2012. This brought some much needed levity to my pre-snowpocalypse evening, and I could hardly wait to bring the news to you all.
  25. hawing
    Welp, UW-Madison has decided to only run essential services on Thursday. In-person final exams will not be held. Instructors can offer an alternate exam or grade students based on their body of work during the semester. This closes all of the UW-Madison libraries, except mine. As a non-UW state agency, we can't close unless the governor orders state agencies to close to the public. He hasn't made up his mind yet. I wish he'd pick one or the other. (I don't mean for that to be a political statement. Jim Doyle took his sweet time deciding what to do before a 2009 storm.)
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