CNN/Money has a nice article that spells out some of the details of the crazy mortgages available today. “Money” quote:
“I think the creative mortgage structures have been the last puff on the real estate balloon,” says Nick Buss, vice president of market research at PNC Finance. “Consumers were already stretched, and these products have stretched them just a little bit further.”
Look familiar? (Other pictures)
And, we walked along the beach in Virginia Beach:
(Other pictures, including ones of Mount Trashmore)
We’re still on vacation, the Holiday Inn Express in Newport News didn’t have working internet access, contrary to the “2 Line T1 phones” listed in their ad. (I’ve got the ad, scan will come when I go back to work.)
Maybe I’ll get some pictures up later after we find some food here in Hurricane, WV.
We hiked around Shenandoah National Park today.
More pictures here.
We drove through Metropolis today. I’ll try to get the picture of the giant Superman posted later.
As promised:
Looks like the FIA/F1 just might get it’s way, with McLaren and others in talks with Bridgestone to jump aboard because Michelin isn’t interested in the the new tire rules.
Maybe this should go under the Politics category instead of Motorsports, since this seems like a bad case of taking your toys and going home….
The 97 Accord got a new muffler last week and new tires this week, Yokohama Avid T4s from Tirerack.com. Mounting and balancing done by Beaumont Alignment.
Trying to get sfdisk -s to show your Compaq Smart volumes? Here’s the easy way:
ln -s /dev/ida/disc0/disc /dev/sda
(This is mostly a hack for making a canned sanitizer script that works on most RAID cards work with these old Compaq RAID cards.)
The 62nd National Sweetcorn Festival is over. I think we shucked nearly 24 tons of corn and served nearly all of it. Another ton or so was leftover on Sunday and good bit of it was sold for $2 per dozen.
Adding to the calorie count: 1 small order of rib tips from Kags Barbeque, 1 taco in a bag, at least 6 ears of corn, 1 pulled pork bbbq sandwich, 1 Conservation Club fish sandwich, several more lemon shakeups and several more beers….
And, I made page two of tomorrows Just the Facts.
Went to the parade this morning, watched all the emergency vehicles drive by. A few bands, lots of floats.
Spent most of the rest of the afternoon standing at the husker, turning ears of corn the right way. We ran out of corn at 4:30pm and served the last of the cooked corn just before 5 pm.
The calorie count so far: 1 deep fried snickers bar, 1 deep fried giant pork tenderloin, 1 large lemon shakeup and a couple of beers….