A big Katchup for the week.
Realized I'd not posted AT ALL, all week except for last Sunday. Wow.
Anyway, it's been rather cold out there. Yesterday, we were 4 degrees below normal for the high (48F) and ended up 13 degrees below normal for our low, which hit a bone chilling 26F overnight. It's been around freezing or so all week at night, well once we got past Monday anyway. Our highs have been low to maybe mid 40's all week as well.
Work continues on, as we loose 2 employees to new jobs. Jeff will go back to his previous employer that laid him off I think early last year, or late in '13, and William who will now work for the print center next door to the mailroom, but a different company. We all have doubts about his ability to actually work a print center, but he is taking over for Jaylene who has a new job within the company and perhaps next week, our old site manager officially transitions out to his new site.
We also still have 2 other positions, one in records management, and one in leasing to fulfill, and maybe one in switchboard when we lost an employee to cancer recently.
So changes there, and I'm awaiting word on the new budget for home buying as my mortgage broker is updating stuff with current rates. The good thing is, I don't have to actually close by years end, though there may be a need to be in contract by then but will need to verify.
Rent is paid up, and despite everything, and another transferring of funds from savings to cover, I still have some monies in my checking account, so avoided an overdraft after all. Fortunately, I get paid next Friday, and will look into ponying up some funds back into savings, to get that back to where it needs to be for my minimum contribution.
However, there is now a bit of a wrinkle in the week. I have a dent in the car! Fortunately, I was not driving it, but had it parked on the corner by my building and at some point I think in the evening, some gal didn't watch carefully when backing up and backed into it. :-(
The left hind quarter flank got scrunched a bit, but I can still access the gas cap, and it can still close if I slam it hard enough to latch. It's all surface damage so not too bad to fix, if I decide to get it fixed at some point.
This is the perils of parking on the street, but in this case, with the car being 11 years now essentially, I'm not as bothered by it as I might have otherwise. The car still gets me around just fine at 132K+ miles on the clock so if it now is getting more deeper blemishes, I'm OK with it, for now as I have bigger fish to fry than to worry about stuff like this. BTW, this was taken Thursday morning before driving into work. There was a note tucked under the wiper blade to call for insurance if I wanted to deal with it. I just shrugged and got in and headed off to work, once I checked that I can actually get into the gas cap.
This morning, did something I don't normally think to do, and that is head out in the cold early, right after getting up as I forgot I had almost no coffee, so had to go buy a can, thus left the apartment around 6:30 nd hoofed it up to the store with barely any traffic at all, outside of the deliverymen out making their deliveries to food establishments.
Noted that another set of stores is slated to move from the hill. A couple of months ago, the Tatyana boutique vintage clothing store that bought out the Betty Page brand, shuttered the store, citing lack of foot traffic, and there is something to that while the light rail station is being built, and is slated to open in 2016. Next up I noticed this morning is the Red Light vintage clothing store, and its sister store next door, Aprie are both closing early next year after 15 years on the hill. The Red Light in the U-District is still open and will be around for the foreseeable future, but both Aprie stores, not so much.
The hill is changing, and all thre is to it, and part of that is the demographics of the hill, plus the foot traffic that's changed due to construction of the light rail station along Broadway.
In a way, it's kind of moot as I'm likely to be moving off the hill soon anyway, once I find a house to buy due to the cost of housing on the hill, both for renting, and buying to get what I need.
Today, I need to put a spot of gas in the car as I am just below half a tank, and this ensures I will have gas for the week as I have a little bit of money in my checking account, and on my credit card to get through the week. So the process of robbing Peter to pay Paul begins as I transfer funds back into my savings to get that topped back off as it's my down payment minimum contribution.
So with that, time I fix breakfast and get a shower and go get a loaf of bread to tide me over through the week.
I think today, I'll work on a tape project I began working on earlier in the week as we had Tuesday off for Veteran's Day. I ended up polishing my tape heads to rid of squeakty tape syndrome. The problem was, the CD I was transferring to reel to reel tape had wildly off levels as Turn it On by Genesis was good, but the rest were way too hot as I left it just play continuously until I got to about 40 minutes in, and then flipped the tape over to record the second side. I will also do some looking at what's for sale, and hopefully find something worth checking out, house wise.
So with that, time I go have breakfast and get on with the day as it's almost 10am already.
Anyway, it's been rather cold out there. Yesterday, we were 4 degrees below normal for the high (48F) and ended up 13 degrees below normal for our low, which hit a bone chilling 26F overnight. It's been around freezing or so all week at night, well once we got past Monday anyway. Our highs have been low to maybe mid 40's all week as well.
Work continues on, as we loose 2 employees to new jobs. Jeff will go back to his previous employer that laid him off I think early last year, or late in '13, and William who will now work for the print center next door to the mailroom, but a different company. We all have doubts about his ability to actually work a print center, but he is taking over for Jaylene who has a new job within the company and perhaps next week, our old site manager officially transitions out to his new site.
We also still have 2 other positions, one in records management, and one in leasing to fulfill, and maybe one in switchboard when we lost an employee to cancer recently.
So changes there, and I'm awaiting word on the new budget for home buying as my mortgage broker is updating stuff with current rates. The good thing is, I don't have to actually close by years end, though there may be a need to be in contract by then but will need to verify.
Rent is paid up, and despite everything, and another transferring of funds from savings to cover, I still have some monies in my checking account, so avoided an overdraft after all. Fortunately, I get paid next Friday, and will look into ponying up some funds back into savings, to get that back to where it needs to be for my minimum contribution.
However, there is now a bit of a wrinkle in the week. I have a dent in the car! Fortunately, I was not driving it, but had it parked on the corner by my building and at some point I think in the evening, some gal didn't watch carefully when backing up and backed into it. :-(
The left hind quarter flank got scrunched a bit, but I can still access the gas cap, and it can still close if I slam it hard enough to latch. It's all surface damage so not too bad to fix, if I decide to get it fixed at some point.
This is the perils of parking on the street, but in this case, with the car being 11 years now essentially, I'm not as bothered by it as I might have otherwise. The car still gets me around just fine at 132K+ miles on the clock so if it now is getting more deeper blemishes, I'm OK with it, for now as I have bigger fish to fry than to worry about stuff like this. BTW, this was taken Thursday morning before driving into work. There was a note tucked under the wiper blade to call for insurance if I wanted to deal with it. I just shrugged and got in and headed off to work, once I checked that I can actually get into the gas cap.
This morning, did something I don't normally think to do, and that is head out in the cold early, right after getting up as I forgot I had almost no coffee, so had to go buy a can, thus left the apartment around 6:30 nd hoofed it up to the store with barely any traffic at all, outside of the deliverymen out making their deliveries to food establishments.
Noted that another set of stores is slated to move from the hill. A couple of months ago, the Tatyana boutique vintage clothing store that bought out the Betty Page brand, shuttered the store, citing lack of foot traffic, and there is something to that while the light rail station is being built, and is slated to open in 2016. Next up I noticed this morning is the Red Light vintage clothing store, and its sister store next door, Aprie are both closing early next year after 15 years on the hill. The Red Light in the U-District is still open and will be around for the foreseeable future, but both Aprie stores, not so much.
The hill is changing, and all thre is to it, and part of that is the demographics of the hill, plus the foot traffic that's changed due to construction of the light rail station along Broadway.
In a way, it's kind of moot as I'm likely to be moving off the hill soon anyway, once I find a house to buy due to the cost of housing on the hill, both for renting, and buying to get what I need.
Today, I need to put a spot of gas in the car as I am just below half a tank, and this ensures I will have gas for the week as I have a little bit of money in my checking account, and on my credit card to get through the week. So the process of robbing Peter to pay Paul begins as I transfer funds back into my savings to get that topped back off as it's my down payment minimum contribution.
So with that, time I fix breakfast and get a shower and go get a loaf of bread to tide me over through the week.
I think today, I'll work on a tape project I began working on earlier in the week as we had Tuesday off for Veteran's Day. I ended up polishing my tape heads to rid of squeakty tape syndrome. The problem was, the CD I was transferring to reel to reel tape had wildly off levels as Turn it On by Genesis was good, but the rest were way too hot as I left it just play continuously until I got to about 40 minutes in, and then flipped the tape over to record the second side. I will also do some looking at what's for sale, and hopefully find something worth checking out, house wise.
So with that, time I go have breakfast and get on with the day as it's almost 10am already.