Housing: Small Is Beautiful
Via Peter Davidson, who has some interesting thoughts on them, and whose blog you should be reading regularly anyway, a company named Tumbleweed Houses that makes tiny yet functional houses. Which, predictably, are low in cost.
When I was single, I was thinking I’d eventually get around to buying a hunk of land somewhere, probably up north, at least as a getaway spot I could camp on and maybe put a shack on. One of the Tumbleweeds would be handy for that kind of thing. Ditto if I were single and wanted to live simply and not spend 400k for a house. As their info page says, they are also used as backyard guest or in-law houses.
This relates neatly to a post that’s been in my head for weeks, but I’ll put that up separately. I have to go back to the office today, as e-mail still isn’t working normally. I sent a description to a mailing list I am on, where many of the people know Exchange well, but most of them read their e-mail at work and won’t see it until Monday. Thus there’s been nothing yet. Best I could come up with after another round is to remove and reinstall the internet mail connector portion of Exchange, then reapply the service pack. Meanwhile, we found one workstation that had 290 virus infected files on it. I was only able to clean it partially, so that needs attention. Doh.
On another note, many people live in campers year round, and that’s something I considered trying more than one. Probably would have, but at the times I was most tempted, I couldn’t have swung the price of a camper. I see the tiny houses as a similar compromise.