weekend update.

the in-laws have gone, sent off with seven hours worth of shopping and three loaves of cracked wheat sourdough. we haven't heard from them, so we're assuming they found their way to the freeway. I fear we've spoiled miyuki's mom, we went out to eat for nearly every meal. she got indian, romio's pizza, breakfast at hattie's hat, whatever they had for lunch yesterday at the food court. the only meal that was homecooked was yesterday's breakfast, scrambled eggs and toast.

we heard an explosion outside earlier, and half the power went out in our apartment, including the fridge. we later learned it was caused by a transformer a'sploding. seems a seagull landed on it and managed to ground itself. seagull went boom and took the transformer with it.

we wandered over to the condos being built a block away and saw the demo floor. as I suspected, the condos won't be finished until spring of 2007, which is about the right timetable for us. problem is, they're doing a pre-sale in three weeks and require a 5% downpayment, or about $15k. we're not going to be buying anything anytime soon. even if I cashed out my entire 401k instead of rolling it's over, we wouldn't even have half that amount. it'll be a couple years before we can afford the downpayment. that's still in line with my goal of homeownership by age 30.

on our way back from the condos, we walked into the stairway and heard someone calling for help from the elevator. it was our apartment manager. we had to go into the laundry room and flip the breaker for the elevator to get her out. she said she'd only been in there a minute or two, but that must suck. if we hadn't passed through there, it could have been awhile before someone else did. I'm not planning on using that elevator for awhile. we rarely do anyway...

this is great tho, it feels like sunday. I get to watch hockey all night tonight and still have all day tomorrow to slob about.