The Escrow forms keep coming. I've scribbled my John Hancock so many times in the past couple of weeks, I'm beginning to feel like a celebrity. It's unreal. There's no way on God's earth anyone has ever sat down and read through all the home-owning forms. I asked our realtor rather pointedly if he had ever read them and he admitted that, while he knew the gist, he'd never really bothered to go through it all.

Garsh, I really hope our loan doesn't get screwed.
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By the way, if you ever find yourself sitting on top of one-year-plus of Blogger entries, do yourself a favor and don't bother running a massive spellcheck on all of them "out of curiosity". I don't pretend to be the most intellectual or perfectionistic chap on the planet, but I was utterly horrified to discover everything I'd spelled incorrectly. I must look an utter fool. If you're reading this, please don't judge me by my imbecile-grade spelling. REALLY embarrassing. I did manage to correct the last couple of entries, but screw it for the rest of them. The world already knows I'm stupid and, unfortunately, opinions aren't retroactive.

As a point of pride, I refuse to spellcheck this entry, BTW.
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Bit of irony I forgot to mention: apparently, 2003 is the year of home-buying for the Bear family. In this calendar year (assuming everything goes to plan with our place)... I and my wife, my dad, my mom, my sister Erin and her husband, and my other sister Lauren and her fiancee are all buying homes this year (a first-time experience for both Lauren and me). 5 properties, 5 Bears (or, former Bears in Mom's case). Both Erin and Mom are building, though, so it's double the roller-coaster for them. Weird.
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I'm refining my thoughts on my new website and JeremyBear.com. I think the new one will purely be my design and illustration business, while JeremyBear.com will be devoted to writing. Seems to make sense. I've never really been comfortable lumping the two practices together anyhow. One tends to cheapen the other and I'd sort of like to be seen as competent in both areas.

Well, maybe competent is a bit much to hope for. "Coherent" maybe?
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Finally, I recently discovered a website called Rob's Amazing Poem Generator. It's a fun little page that will take any webpage and generate a poem from it using text that it finds on the page in question. I gave it the URL of my Blogger, and here's the poem it wrote for me:

Jeremy Bear 10:years from the original
fake confession had
to say:
what impressed me as probably
the Brick
Testament. Apparently,
and the even a mad dash of years
to be as chuckling or somthing. But,
we d planned, but… most
important to get used to put
the head JAY: Really.
was nothing else
left. Yellows are
troubled...

Breathtaking, really. And much better than anything I came up with in high school.