Notes, Lately

$110

  • $110 will get you approximately 250 items of secondhand baby clothes. No one needs to buy us anything resembling a baby cloth for at least the next 9 months.
  • The Bobby website accessibility validator is no longer available online. It is now bundled into a piece of IBM software for purchase only. This makes it harder, not easier, for web designers to build accessible websites.
  • It is faster to ride RTA downtown than drive, since the E 9th and Euclid intersection snarls everything up. It is actually faster to exit on E 22nd Street and backtrack.
  • No one is used to the bus lanes yet, they’re being used as right turn lanes, which further snarls traffic.
  • After 3 years of paying my consolidated college loans on time, I just received at 1% reduction in the interest rate. Now it is at 2.375%, which is awesome. I can pay it off faster now.

Comments and conversations on this post

  1. Meagan B. Call

    I haven’t even started paying them… depressing.

  2. jmay

    Mine won’t be payed off until Kathryn is ready to start looking at colleges.  It’s really quite sad as I could really use that money to make sure she isn’t in the same position when it’s her turn.  I guess as long as I stay working here I won’t have to worry too much as they do offer tuition assistance as a benefit. 

  3. peppermintlisa

    good luck convincing people not to buy you baby clothes. strangers on the street will gift them to you if they find out you’re having a baby. :)

  4. Sandy Smith

    How about a puppy?