Day: November 21, 2005

Today’s broken item: a pink flamingo snow globe that I’d hidden at the back of a book case.

I might have infected the whole title company, but I just got back from closing on my house refinance. Yeah, it starts the 30 year period all over again (it will be paid off when I’m 72!) and I’m borrowing almost as much as I did 5 years ago when I bought the house (to cover all the closing costs) and it now means I’m a lifer at my company (I get a 1.5% interest discount as long as I’m an employee there), but my payments will be $250 lower every month. After five years, they drop another $58. And as a surprise bonus I didn’t know was coming: no house payment in December. Wee!

For the people who think AIDS is under control:

The five million cases recorded in 2005 was “the highest number of people newly infected (in a year) since the beginning of the epidemic,” Peter Piot, executive director of the UNAIDS programme, told reporters in New Delhi.

Source