Hello. This is Charlie Trotter.

Managing Expectations

Thu, 02 Sep 2010 22:23:37 -0500

Now that we’re closed, I’ve been looking back on the experience, and I think if mortgage brokers would lead with, “I DON’T LIKE YOU, I DON’T TRUST YOU AND I DON’T WANT TO LEND YOU ANY MONEY,” rather than, “Nice credit score, champ, let’s get you housed,” then the buyer’s emotional graph would have fewer peaks and valleys.

RE: The DROID X

Thu, 02 Sep 2010 21:11:07 -0500

I got in trouble for leaving out a pretty key detail of the story. My dear friend had just chastised me when I curmudgeonly remarked, “I would love one of those DROIDs, but I’m not paying that kind of money for a cockeyed phone.”

He dressed me down quickly for being the only person who managed to find himself earning a living making websites while remaining unclear these things are more than just phones. It was after that 15-minute beating I ran it by my wife.

For the record.

Um… I ordered a DROID X today. This is crazy. I’ve...

Thu, 02 Sep 2010 17:52:26 -0500

Um… I ordered a DROID X today.

This is crazy. I’ve never done anything like this before. I was at Verizon to get all my internet stuff switched to the new address and adjust our cell plan. My phone is on the fritz so I was running the numbers yet again to see if I could make the data package work.

I saved a little dough on my internet connection and found some unexpected coin for the phone from a happy gap in expenses due to the move, and, one chat with my dear, lovely, way-too-good-for-me wife later, I was back at the store ordering a phone they don’t even have in stock yet. Understand, I make fun of people for doing that. I’ve never had the newest anything. I’ve never cared, truly. But it all finally came together and made sense.

So, Im pretty excited to have a super future phone in a couple of weeks when it ships. Where do I learn the handshake?

geologyrocks: effulgent: By Kevin Walker Amazing.

Wed, 01 Sep 2010 20:53:55 -0500

geologyrocks:

effulgent:

By Kevin Walker

Amazing.

Jesus on the Mainline

Wed, 01 Sep 2010 12:46:00 -0500

Jesus on the Mainline

Yesterday was a blur, but I’m pretty sure I told my...

Wed, 01 Sep 2010 12:01:34 -0500

Yesterday was a blur, but I’m pretty sure I told my mortgage broker dealing with him was, “like playing cards with my sister’s kids.” How does anyone consent to doing this every five years?

When I would tell friends about my consternation with the house buying process, they would say, “Oh, relax, this is your first house, you are only going to be in it five years anyway.” Not if I can help it. If given my druthers, my kids will bury me in the back yard and earn their inheritance giving tours of the Trotter Estate & Tomb.

I will be paying for this pen for thirty years.

Tue, 31 Aug 2010 18:18:11 -0500

I will be paying for this pen for thirty years.

alice44: whisperingwillow: aquieterstorm: (via nyapo,...

Mon, 30 Aug 2010 11:04:07 -0500

alice44:

whisperingwillow:

aquieterstorm:

(via nyapo, xineann)

So meta.

travelhighlights: Fault Lines: Turkey East WestBy George...

Mon, 30 Aug 2010 10:08:22 -0500

travelhighlights:

Fault Lines: Turkey East West
By George Georgiou

Drop me off here with my guitar and Bible and maybe come back in a month or never.

bookspaperscissors: (via nicolascageismypatronus) For Lainey.

Sun, 29 Aug 2010 19:54:25 -0500

bookspaperscissors:

(via nicolascageismypatronus)

For Lainey.

Can you hear the dialog from that meeting as clearly as I can?

Sat, 28 Aug 2010 13:42:34 -0500

Can you hear the dialog from that meeting as clearly as I can?

Sometimes I just go on ebay to get my heart broken.

Fri, 27 Aug 2010 21:07:43 -0500

Sometimes I just go on ebay to get my heart broken.

jasonsmithtx: Busy Body - Jolly Green Giants This song is so...

Thu, 26 Aug 2010 15:50:41 -0500

jasonsmithtx:

Busy Body - Jolly Green Giants

This song is so manic. You need this 45 to live.

This is prepping me nicely for this two-hour conference call I have in ten minutes.

scottlava: “From hell’s heart I stab at thee; for hate’s sake I...

Thu, 26 Aug 2010 11:31:18 -0500

scottlava:

“From hell’s heart I stab at thee; for hate’s sake I spit my last breath at thee. Ye damned whale.”

“Hanging onto resentment is letting someone you despise live rent-free in your head.” - Ann Landers

Ahab is giving that whale WAY too much power.

Go to the Ant - Red Sea (me) Here’s a song I wrote....

Wed, 25 Aug 2010 13:14:00 -0500

Go to the Ant - Red Sea (me)

Here’s a song I wrote. It’s a small point along the way to a bigger goal I’ve had for a while now, to write and record an old school, hard gospel album. It will be about half originals and half covers of old bluesy spirituals. The album art might make it look like I’m farther down the line than I am, but I’m a designer, and I can’t help myself. And, yeah, Red Sea will be my moniker.

The song is based on Proverbs 6:6-9.

I hope you like it.

foralskelse: Aaron Huey Totally Photoshopped.

Tue, 24 Aug 2010 18:56:21 -0500

foralskelse:

Aaron Huey

Totally Photoshopped.

pixelpaper: All ducks are wearing dog masks I can’t...

Tue, 24 Aug 2010 11:09:18 -0500

pixelpaper:

All ducks are wearing dog masks

I can’t un-see it.

I’ve been scanning Archive.org for old public domain...

Tue, 24 Aug 2010 09:42:32 -0500

I’ve been scanning Archive.org for old public domain footage of ants for a song I wrote last weekend, and I found this. It’s interesting enough just to see the ants up close, but the woman talking on her cell in the background about an unrelated personal drama really makes it.

I like to pretend one of the ants is saying it.

Ry Cooder - Davenport Blues (via Iwebender) What I’m...

Mon, 23 Aug 2010 09:16:29 -0500

Ry Cooder - Davenport Blues (via Iwebender)

What I’m really loving about Ry Cooder is his taste for assembling esoteric bands and arrangements and not taking the spotlight, but just letting the thing happen.

I guess Extra’s check bounced.

Sun, 22 Aug 2010 18:32:36 -0500

I guess Extra’s check bounced.