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well. i seem to have lost an entire month. i never did like april, too many showers as payment in advance for flowers.

[i haven't actually lost the month, i just haven't coded it. or written it. but i've photographed it. i'll let you know when it has come home to roost.]

so what have i been up to?

work is still paycheck to paycheck. i try not to think about the fact that new contracts are not being signed as soon as we would like, try not to think about all the "rightsizing" i've been doing with my hours--working fewer and therefore being paid less as we are all hourly, try not to think about my savings account which only holds enough to cover one month of bills not the recommended three.

i hate constantly thinking about the pay. it's bad enough i have to work for a living, but i like the pay part to be transparent as possible. i don't think too much about it, money just miraculously appears in my bank account without fail on the 15th and 30th, 31st, 28th, 29th, you know, the end of the month. the shine of the miracle is swiftly fading. let's all hope i see some money this tuesday.

what else...

someone wrote haranguing me about my lack of capitalisation and my creative use of the compound word.

bite me.

i know where the capital letters belong, i just don't like them. i like all the letters being in the same case; that leaves either lowercase or uppercase and as i don't much care for screaming and i also don't much care for the blocky look uppercase gives a paragraph, i went with lower case. i also don't like hyphens. i've always admired the germanic way of just mushing together words to make newer and more descriptive ones and i've adopted the habit.

and yes, i know capitalisation should be capitalization in this country, but i spent my formative spelling years split amongst countries with different rules. sometimes you get an s instead of a z. sometimes you get a u in colour, and almost always in labour. there is really no rhyme nor reason to it, it just depends on whether the usa brain shows up for work on any given day, or whether it decides to sleep in and let australia brain handle the job.

don't even get me started on commas.

real life stuff:

gene has been working on a major project most of this year and looks as though it is ready to face the big bad world. there is a possibility this will bring us much money but we'll be happy just to see the little bird fly on its own. i know that is terribly obtuse but what the hell, such is the life of the semianonymous.

my parents have been visiting on and off for the past month, dad here much of the time, mom popping in between conferences and such. retirement is looming and they are thinking of moving somewhere close, so we've been taking neighbourhood tours of various and sundry western washington locations. poulsbo? maybe. bellingham? no. lake stevens? if a house with both a mountain and lake view is to be had, most likely. it will be odd to have them nearby after years of them being halfway around the globe.

good thing i like them so much.

gene and i flirted with the idea of a house, but stopped as soon as we realized the entire housing market here is higher than a kite. gaheris and his fiancee just bought a house in seattle and thought it a bargain at $400,000. look at all those zeroes. i can't imagine spending that kind of money on a house, even if it had a sliver of a water view from the upstairs bathroom, but only in the winter when the trees don't have any leaves.

i am officially rambling.

i'll stop.

no really, i will.

we might have to put the cat down. i am in total denial.

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