HAUS!

We went to lunch today and bought a house. O.O Well, we went to look at a ZLL over on Bridle Circle at lunch, and it was … fantastic. It’s almost 1400 square feet on an almost 6Ksf lot. 3 bedrooms, 2.5 baths, a VERY LARGE kitchen with LOTS of counter space, an actual _dining room area_ (which we haven’t had in a long time), a big ol’ living room with a fireplace at one end… nice light, a 2 car garage, and there’s a foot of dead space between…

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I don’t know…

I don’t know exactly what happened at work this morning, but apparently there was an essay on our sites that had profanity in it, or something like that, and a client complained, or, well, something like that, and the result was that Vincent, our QA guy, sent out an email asking if someone could provide him with a list of profanity words. Vincent is Chinese, and English isn’t his first language. After a volley of emails, he then sent this one, in explanation: Just to clarify why I needed… One…

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back report

The auld back is a lot better in the mornings, right now. By evening it hurts quite a lot and I’m very very tired. And now I’m going to the chiro, where I will probably hurt more upon return than I do now. :P

well…

Well, I wrote a very little bit on MD tonight. My back hurts. :P I decided I’m going to get the first third of the book done, polish it, and bring it down. That’ll have to do, as far as the con’s concerned. I really wish I hadn’t hurt myself. :(

er. well.

Er. Well. That was easy. I just called my 401k people to see if I could get a loan against my 401k for a down payment for a house. It took about seven minutes and I didn’t speak a word. The whole thing is entirely automated. I asked for a loan, I told it why, I told it how much, I told it how many months I wanted to pay it back over, it told me how much my bi-weekly repayment plan would be, then said it’d send a promissory…

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