December 19, 2007 - Posted by: K

My second post...and it only took a week! I can already tell that this site is going to be neglected and posts will be few and far between. My sincere apologies to those of you who were actually looking forward to reading gibberish and drivel. Maybe I'll set up an email address for story sumissions...one of these days.

Meanwhile, nothing new in the ongoing financial saga that is my life, although I did come up with the following ditty which I'll probably end up singing to myself incessantly...the way a homeless person mutters unintelligible phrases to nobody in particular.

O give me a home
With adjustable loan
And affordable interest to pay
Where five years from now
Rates adjust up somehow
And the bank takes my house away

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December 12, 2007 - Posted by: K

Welcome to Damaged...home to some random thoughts from a random mind.

Today's topic: Where will I live after the bank takes my home???

Where, indeed. Assuming that the bullet train to Bankruptcy doesn't stop at Salvation Street, I'm looking at a few options. Thankfully, I live near lovely Santa Monica, CA. Santa Monica seems to welcome the homeless with open arms. I still have the big cardboard box that my Dell computer shipped in...mighty fine cardboard, and roomy, too! Who needs anything more? Live in a spacious cardboard box on the beach in Santa Monica and hit Third Street Promenade with cup in hand to harrass locals and tourists alike into tossing me some change.

Of course, having a roof overhead that won't melt in the first rainstorm would be a bonus. I've looked far and wide for a suitable location in sunny Southern California that might fit my budget of next-to-nothing and one town seems to stand out from the crowd: Trona.

Trona is a disaster of a town...but the real estate is about as cheap as it gets in So Cal. Maybe it has something to do with the fact that it's a declining minerals mining town...or that the stench of sulphur hangs heavy in the air...or that one in three homes has been burned to the ground by vandals or insurance cheats. Whatever the reason, only someone damaged in the head would want to live there...sounds ideal to me.

Here are a few of the lovely homes that we saw on our last visit to this booming future ghost town.....















How much would one pay for any of these gorgeous estate homes? Before the run up in real estate, any one of these fine properties could have been purchased for less than $10,000...and, with the direction home prices are headed, under $10,000 might be possible once again.

I figure a few months of vigorous cup shaking will earn enough loose change to shoehorn my way into one of these beauties! Trona...I'm coming home!!!