I burned a new mix CD this morning out of the blue. It has a fairly basic running sonic theme, with a couple of exceptions.
I was listening to it in the car this morning, and thought that it might be interesting to write something related to each track, since each track has at least one specific memory or impression attached to it, as music tends to do. Of course, the length of each passage will probably vary as to the strength of the association.
Last night while encouraged to discuss something instead of bothering her brother at the dinner table, our 5-year-old asked one of the unanswerable questions. No, it wasn’t the biological version, it was the existential version. The biological version might have been preferred.
I probably should have asked her more questions to figure out why she was asking this. It was just a bit too out of the blue. I don’t suspect she was coached to ask the question, but I wonder who was talking about it with her that made her start to think about it.
We’ve been planning on moving (which may sound odd in other places in the world where it’s known as “shifting”) for 6 years. Yes, it’s really been that long.
When we first bought this house from my parents, we got it with a dirt-cheap “5-year-fixed then adjustable-rate” mortgage and the strong intention to move before the rate became adjustable. Well, that time has come and gone, and it’s about time to get out of this house and into something new.
We met with the realtor last week. Jean is a very jovial spirit, and is very enthusiastic for her team to help us with our move. (Something we hadn’t considered is that a real estate agent would come pre-grouped with many people: One to sell our house, one to help us find the best house to buy, one to help with the financing.) Part of the process is obviously finding someplace new to live, and so last night we reviewed a web site that Jean forwarded to us so that we would have some places to tour over the holiday weekend.
We were excited to see the lists of houses, but the initial chart puts most of the new homes in the $350k-$450k range. This was much higher than I expected, and I questioned the sanity in this when I saw that our mortgage payments would be somewhere above $2000 per month.
The broker is a bit crazy, saying that we could easily afford a $500k house. Seriously, that’s a half million dollars. One half million. One wonders if these huge numbers are solely commision-driven and whether there is any actual sense incorporated in their figuring. But I’m told that the numbers all work out.
Oh, this is sweet - A Rubik’s Cube solver where you tell it what your cube looks like and it gives you the solution.
Wow! Did you guys catch the season 2 finale of Lost last night? Now what are they going to do?
I just have a few comments on last night’s episode:
I also have some stupid predictions for season 3 of Lost.