8/12/2010

So Yeah

About 2 or 3 years ago, while driving to the airport, we heard a commentator on NPR say that it was a good time to refinance your home loan if you had an interest rate above 6%. When we got back home from our trip, we went about refinancing our house. It worked out pretty well. Our payment went down $250 a month and we lost 1.5% on the interest rate.

It looks like we’re about to refi again, but this time it’s even more impressive. One of our friends/neighbors is a mortgage broker, and he told me that he’s getting people ~3% interest rates on 15 year loans, and the result is that the payment doesn’t change much.

He ran the numbers for us yesterday: on a 15 year loan, our payment only goes up $100 a month.

8/8/2010

In These Tough Times

I had to make an executive decision today: I am not going to go see Punch Brothers at the State Room on monday so I can afford to see The Swell Season on Sunday.

8/1/2010

In My Head

I run the trail loop around our golf course most days of the week (I’ll usually take one day off over the weekend). As I run, I listen, usually, to two podcasts: The Best of Today and the Guardian Daily (RIP).

As I run, here’s what generally goes through my head:

“Ooh! Good point John!
Jim, would you let the man finish his answer!
Is that a snake?
No. It’s a stick.
Evan, you need to stop talking.
Snake? No. Stick.
Oooh. That sounds like a really interesting story. I should check the Guardian when I get ba—Snake?
No. Stick.”

Signage

Shelley and I went for a long walk along the Weber River Parkway this morning and found ourselves endlessly entertained by the signage, which seems to have been composed by someone with little experience composing signs for public parks. (This link is actually to one of the better-written signs).

7/19/2010

So We Had This Conversation

Me: So get this. It’s called a “tank top” because a long time ago we used to call swimming pools “swimming tanks,” and people thought that the shirt looked like a “swimming tank top“—that is, a swimsuit top! So we have an article of clothing whose name everyone recognizes and uses, but which is named after an obsolete term for a swimming pool!

Her: Whatever.

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