Clearly, I am not entirely in the wrong place when I can successfully crack up a co-worker by coming back to my desk carrying a load of mortgage-related paperwork, sitting down, and saying "still not king."

Not the nephews this time. Just an overcaffeinated kitten. :-D

Last Monday, I signed a contract.

Last Wednesday, I mailed in my taxes to three different jurisdictions, plus an update on last year's to make the IRS happy.

Last Thursday, I applied for a mortgage.

Friday, I worked a short day at the office, went up to Connecticut, and slew some sand spiders. It was persuasively argued that as long as they kept ( Read more... )

Much overdue, this-I went out on Sunday, and then my life got busy for some reason. Momentum tag relinquished on account of work craziness and nephew visit.
Properties seen 8. Good Lord. Properties not seen because of flakey realtors 1 Properties featuring fireplaces 2 Properties featuring vaguely adequate kitchens 5 Properties in the ( Read more... )

I almost said the Twins, but that might confuse any fellow baseball fans out there... anyway, I am in Seattle for the weekend, seeing lots of family at high speed, but mostly the boys, in all their tiny glory. They are, to be perfectly frank, kind of one-track at this point-and that track runs between points Eat, Sleep, and Poop. (And in fact, ( Read more... )

I guess I have housing on the brain a bit this week, but as I watch Bill Maher discussing Eric Massa on Countdown Without Keith Olbermann (rapidly becoming my favorite form of the show), it occurs to me to wonder: how much of the People's House is made up of closets?

The hunt is on!
Properties seen:3 (two Park Slope, one Prospect Heights)Neighborhoods walked through4 (Park Slope, Prospect Heights, Clinton Hill, Fort Greene)Parks walked by3 (Prospect, Fort Greene, Cuyler Gore) Miles walked5.6, plus detours and vaccilation
And tomorrow, I shall do it again! Though probably with less walking and more property ( Read more... )

Apparently "any day now" has been refined down to "tomorrow" (in the sense of tomorrow that could begin basically at any moment). Fingers crossed, knocking on wood, and all those things...

Among the various arrant falsehoods and misconceptions uttered on national television tonight by John Yoo, I think the one that best explains it all was, speaking of the Department of Justice "I mean, that's our job-we are the President's lawyers." No, actually, you were supposed to be our lawyers. War criminal.

No, not one of those XKCD strips... just fixed my stepfather's scanner software. How? That's how. Of course. (Actually, I just hit the "Preferences" button and found the place where it was trying to connect to the wrong scanner, but the principle holds.)