{"id":1205,"date":"2003-06-08T00:02:45","date_gmt":"2003-06-08T07:02:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/journals\/jed\/2003\/06\/08\/1205.html"},"modified":"2003-06-08T00:02:45","modified_gmt":"2003-06-08T07:02:45","slug":"productive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/2003\/06\/08\/productive\/","title":{"rendered":"Productive"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Last night and today:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Read a week's worth of submissions.<\/li>\n<li>Learned a lot about real estate.  Kam pointed me to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mlslistings.com\/\">Multiple Listing Service<\/a> site, which is a great resource for getting a sense of what housing prices are like in a given city, at least in the Bay Area.  Discovered that there seem to be a fair number of 2-bedroom condos in Mountain View (and some in Redwood City, right near both work and Pam &amp; Arthur's place) that are somewhere roughly in my price range.  I'm not quite certain what my price range is, but a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jeacle.ie\/mortgage\/\">mortgage calculator<\/a> suggests that I may be able to afford a little more than I'd been assuming.  Sent email to a realtor who Kam's parents put me in touch with.<\/li>\n<li>Measured various rooms in my apt to try to figure out my current square-footage (seems to be about 650), to get a sense of what size place I'd want (I'm thinking 900-1000ish).<\/li>\n<li>Chatted for a while with an old friend who's been out of touch for years but suddenly resurfaced a couple weeks ago.  (In fact, several people I'd been out of touch with for a long time suddenly got back in contact a couple weeks ago.  If any of you are reading this, thanks!  Unfortunately, I'm often as flaky about maintaining contact as about initiating it.)<\/li>\n<li>Learned that Macy's doesn't carry curtains.  I suppose this item doesn't actually count as productive.<\/li>\n<li>Stopped by the dry cleaner to pick up my suit, but alas, they'd closed.  I suppose this item doesn't actually count as productive either.<\/li>\n<li>Bought a car stereo (though it won't be installed 'til next weekend, sigh).<\/li>\n<li>Did various database-updating tasks and various tasks related to ongoing editor search.<\/li>\n<li>Drove past a condo complex half a mile from here, right next to the train station, that had a unit listed at MLS.  Tempting, though small and may be toward the high end of my price range.  (And all the units look identical&#8212;little boxes&#8212;but I can live with that.)  Has a nice little park-like area built into the complex; is literally a five-minute walk from train station; has a little caf&eacute; built into the complex; is also literally a five-minute walk from big shopping center (Safeway, Walmart, Trader Joe's, etc) and little dairy\/fresh-produce market (and Planned Parenthood, interestingly); is a slightly further but still easy walk to DMV, various banks, Tower Records, and a couple of drugstores.  Most of those items aren't big draws for me, but a few of them would make a bunch of things more convenient for me and for anyone who visited me.<\/li>\n<li>Stopped at the grocery store on the way home to pick up milk and cheese (no, not <a href=\"http:\/\/www.houseoffun.com\/milkandcheese\/index.html\">Milk and Cheese<\/a>, just milk and cheese), ended up also picking up a new item I hadn't encountered before: prepackaged yakisoba, plus some frozen mixed veggies.  I came home and made an impromptu yakisoba\/stir-fry for dinner&#8212;which probably sounds unsurprising to those of you who are unaware of how rarely I do anything that resembles cooking even to that extent.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Also, yesterday I came up with a possibly interesting new strategy for coping with loud car situation.  But I'm not quite ready to discuss that yet; needs to percolate some more.  Don't worry; nothing illegal, immoral, or harmful to anyone.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last night and today: Read a week&#8217;s worth of submissions. Learned a lot about real estate. 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