Replying to a message of Thom LaCosta to Bob Ackley:

 TL> Bob Ackley wrote in a message to Thom LaCosta:

 BA>> Some are towers...

 TL> Thanks once again....let me see where there may be any room left....my
 TL> house is 11 by 22, two floors and a basement...and really
 TL> cramped....that's why I was thinking of getting an old laptop....I
 TL> can throw that under the stairs in the basement on top of a small
 TL> cabinet.

The house I lived in until 2005 measured 22 x 28 feet, and the walls were a bit
over a foot thick (brick walls with an air gap in the middle).  Useable floor space
about 825 square feet in 1.75 stories (not a full basement).  You wouldn't believe
how much crud I had in there, shucks it's still tight in this place.  I will freely
admit to being a pack rat.

Now I'm in a 4 bedroom farm house, 1800 square feet, plus a 18x30 foot concrete
block building (used to be used for milking cows) and a separate 15x20 foot 
shed that's divided into a workshop and a dog kennel (I have ten dogs - and the
nearest neighbor is 1/4 mile away); note that I replaced everything below the roof
in the shed as the (formerly wood, now concrete block) walls were about to collapse.

I'm now in the process of replacing all of the windows (the old ones weren't drafty,
they were windy) and the siding of the main farm house.  Should be finished by this
time next year (started around this time last year).  Hopefully the heating bill will
come down significantly.

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