Quote of the Day:

"Patience serves as a protection against wrongs as clothes do against cold. For if you put on more clothes as the cold increases, it will have no power to hurt you. So in like manner you must grow in patience when you meet with great wrongs, and they will then be powerless to vex your mind." - Leonardo (da Vinci)

And with that, I'm off to make some tea (not great tea but tea all the same; I need to bring in some good lose tea from home) and let life happen for a bit!

Jen and Brian, eat your heart out!

In a discussion of Waltham, I thought of Mr. Big Toyland. Here's a neat article about it:
http://www.cooljapanesetoys.com/clubcjt/03_00/toyland.cfm

My favorite quote is:
"Waltham is a tough town. It's got attitude. You don't want to mess with kids from Waltham, they'll knock your lights out. Moody street embodied this attitude."

You'd never know it to look at Moody Street now of course, but mess with any Southsider and you'll find out ;)

Brian and Jen never got to go because "it was too far to Waltham". I used to walk down the 7 blocks down on my own (after stopping at Johnnies for some candy that I'd buy with my allowance).

Neener neener neener! :)

No offer

They pulled out - apparently paying over $290k won't work for them. Why it took over 24 hours to figure this out, I have no clue.

Ken said their broker is really annoyed and commented "well, you know how it is when all of the family comes along to look at it".

Good news though, another couple that came by loved the place and was really excited about it, but its the first house they've looked at. They want to shop around a bit before thinking of making an offer.

Back to square one.

Oh my god

I'm doing my thesis on a data set from work. I'm comparing claims from 2003 to 2004.

This was built on the assumption that I'd have January - March 2004 data in time. Now Partners is telling me I won't. This goes against what they told me when I specifically asked them at a meeting.

Shit.

I need to do some serious thinking fast, otherwise I'll have to re-write all I have for my thesis to date.

Suck.