Month: January 2006

Dumb and Lazy

You’d think I’d update more, what with not having to get up and go to worky worky. But mostly I’ve been getting slower and dumber and lazier the longer I’ve been out of work. Accomplishments this week: did legally required minimum work search. Filed for unemployment benefits. On Tuesday I took a shower, and on Wednesday I made some dinner. Today my goals, in addition to posting this crap, are to shower and leave the house. We’ll see how far I get.

Here There be Tygers is a fun journal by a nice young woman named Anette who joined me and a few other folks for shabu-shabu on my birthday. We followed the meat-and-soup with $2 pints of Brubakers at the Tam. Quite the holiday celebration.

Disintermediation

The promise of internet-based commerce has long been that it allows buyers and sellers to come together in an efficient manner. Real estate is finally succumbing. I am so happy to see FSBO Madison come into existence and into play. It doesn’t just mean that when I am finally ready to buy a house, I will get a better deal. It also means that the internet really is helping people (well, not Realtors, but everybody else), and more importantly, it means that I was right. And I love being right.