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Wednesday, January 14, 2009

Greg, that is pretty cool (I think). Are you #21?

And now, I bring you Enlow's First Law of Home Ownership:

The probability p that when you try to fix one problem, you create another, is modeled by the function

p(t) = 2-t

where t is the number of years of home-ownership.


Right now I'm at about t = 0.125, which makes my p about 91.7%.

That feels about right.

2 Comments:

Blogger Greg said...

I'm not laughing at you--I'm laughing with you. Man did I feel that pain in TK, MD. We had the number of an independent carpenter pretty much by memory. And we also bought a single-priced "we'll fix your HVAC regardless" program just for peace of mind. (And we used it; we got the better end of that deal!)

1/14/2009 2:54 PM  
Blogger Tim said...

So, you didn't say what problem you created by fixing another one. Hopefully it didn't involve a wet-vac. Those are generally the worst problems.

1/17/2009 9:40 AM  

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