My latest addiction
As the wife can verify, I get into weird, weeks-long jags where I troll the web for hours, obsessing over one particular type of information. When we started considering buying Annalisa a car six years ago, it was automobile reviews, two and a half years ago it was political weblogs to argue about the Iraq war, and now?
Seattle real estate.
I don't really have much rational reason for doing this - yes, I'm moving to Seattle for the summer, and it did start as apartment searching on Craigslist. But we've long since locked down a place to stay, and I've moved from looking for apartments to looking for actual condos, despite the fact that the odds of us moving to Seattle permanently are completely unknown, and that we're laughably far away from having even a modest fraction of the titanic down-payments some of these condos would require in today's lending environment.
Still, I search. And while most of the places I find will never, ever be rational purchases for us, I also occasionally run across things like this.
As soon as the early reports of the zomb-pocalypse start showing up on TV, you bet your ass I'm gonna give this guy a call...
Seattle real estate.
I don't really have much rational reason for doing this - yes, I'm moving to Seattle for the summer, and it did start as apartment searching on Craigslist. But we've long since locked down a place to stay, and I've moved from looking for apartments to looking for actual condos, despite the fact that the odds of us moving to Seattle permanently are completely unknown, and that we're laughably far away from having even a modest fraction of the titanic down-payments some of these condos would require in today's lending environment.
Still, I search. And while most of the places I find will never, ever be rational purchases for us, I also occasionally run across things like this.
As soon as the early reports of the zomb-pocalypse start showing up on TV, you bet your ass I'm gonna give this guy a call...