I bought a garage to shoot videos in

OK, so I actually bought a house that has a garage. Same thing, right? Just think, a place to hang a green screen and attach lights to the ceiling. And just think, an office without a bed in it, just like the old days before I moved back to California over four years ago. There isn't really a way to put in a permanent smooth transition from wall to floor like I had hoped, but I can hang a cloth in a place where I will be able to control the light. I may even bite the bullet and bring in an electrician to put some heavier electrical wiring into a new heavy duty breaker box run from the main.
Finally, someone accepted our offer and didn't hold my need for a VA loan against me. These folks have both daughters in the service and preferred to sell to a veteran instead of complaining that it is harder to deal with a VA loan. The Veterans Administration does make it tougher, but not that bad if you don't have termites or black mold, or dry rot.
It will be a few weeks before we can close, and anoth one before we can move in, even if all goes well, and my wife will keep me pretty busy at first, but I think I am going to attempt some chroma key work as one of the first of my projects.

San Lorenzo.
My wife and I both work in Oakland.
We came back to California in 2009 after I lost a good paying job that allowed me to live in less expensive places, most recently near Disney World in Florida. I have been underemployed since then. (I am available if Adobe needs a new Evangelist! I give great Trade Show presentations.)
The price I am paying for a house in a middle-class neighborhood is over twice what my last house sold for and it was on the golf course, overlooking the ninth fairway, a lake, then a forest.
But the indor kitchen is killer, and the outdoor kitchen is fantastic.
Here is a link to some pictures. It just took me five minutes in Muse to put together this show. These are not my pictures, and if the person who posted them originally couldn't seem to make a decision on how they should be sized, let alone cropped. But the pictures themselves are not bad for a Real Estate photographer.
http://stevengotz.com/house
No pictures of the garage. It was crammed full of stuff so there would not have been a point to even trying to take a picture.

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