Good morning

[prog]

I got ticketed finally. There's no excuse for this, especially since I went to the trouble of digging out after the blizzard (but before the lighter snowstorm). So I moved the car today, before I could collect any more tickets; actually I drove to a house near Diesel, where I type this now. I'm of half a mind to leave it there, since it's probably as close to my house as any other cleared-out spot I might find, but whatev.

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Damn this economy... I figure that the money I've been earning in money market interest, since I started actually doing that, is just enough to cover my annual parking-violation expenses. But, at least the APY on my bank account has been ticking upwards again; it's back up to a whopping 2 percent. shrug

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Hating on-street parking reminds me that this year I'm gonna start seriously lookin to buy me some proppity, inspired by several of my friends all doing this at the same time during this winter.

I dunno what I'm doing yet; my parents encourage me to get a condo, and at least one friend is asking me to consider a residential partnership of some variety. Parents want to see me become landed so much that they have offered to pay half of any reasonable down payment. I'm not sure I'd actually accept it -- they have enough financial concerns without shoveling cash at me -- but: noted.

I can't dawdle too long, though; my apt lease is up in June, and Ms. V will want to know what I'm doing by early May, so I should really know what I'm doing by the end of April. That's three months, yo. Yike

Comments

[jadelennox]

residential partnership == better space for cheaper plus you only need to own one blender between you.

mini co-housing

[cthulhia]

maybe full residential.
as long as we get our own bathrooms, per dougo's request. :)

[prog.livejournal.com]

What's funny is that the first thing I think of was our KoL clan, where we figured we only needed to have one Tenderizing Hammer between us. And we all know how that went.

[cortezopossum.livejournal.com]

Downtown Madison has an alternate sides parking rule where you're supposed to park on the side with even numbered addresses on even days of the week ... odd side of the street for odd days of the week.

Invariably this messes people up on Jan 1, Feb 1 and Mar 1 (on leap years) because you get to park on the same side of the street twice in a row.

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