No condo..yet.

It seems like the county had some issues with the condo building so I wasn't able to close on my condo today. It sucks but my movers still haven't told me when my stuff will arrive anyway. I think the movers I hired sold all my stuff in Mexico because I called for like 3 days straight with no response. I was finally able to talk to someone yesterday. My stuff hasn't left Oregon yet...doh!

Since I didn't close today, I had reschedule the cable installation and my electricity for the new closing date next Friday. It does mean I save 8 days worth of mortgage interest. Luckily my loan rate is still locked in although I think if it expired I'd be able to get a better deal.

I've been debating going swimming tomorrow 1 day earlier than the 3 weeks just to see how it goes. Of course I'm going all out this weekend with all 3 sports. I'm gonna suck wheel on the local 50 mile ride. It will be good to show the folks that I wasn't a complete poser. I was only riding with 75% lung capacity. It's cold here so I hope I can wear enough clothes to stay warm.

I bought some poor man's recovery drink (chocolate milk) since all my Endurox is still in storage. Although I think I have enough stored up calories that I probably won't need it. I'm gonna start a little diet come Saturday to help drop my weight back down.

I finished my taxes and I'm getting a refund. For some reason, I made the same amount of money as last year but paid less taxes without changing my deductions. Oregon robbed me as I'm only get $115 back from them. If I was a optimist, I would be happy with such a low refund. Well as everyone knows, I'm the worst of worst pessimists so I'm upset that I didn't get a bigger refund.

The fed refund will help pay for my bike. I also need to buy blinds for the condo. I'm hoping that they don't cost too much but all I know is I'm going for the simple professional installation.

So I found out that I have Mentor Graphics stock options expiring in 2 months. I was surprised that I let them last this long. I'm thinking they must be super high options as I'm usually pretty good about getting rid of them as soon as they are worth something. My bad luck is the stock is in the toilet and just got downgraded by JP Morgan today. Oh joy, I might just be eating those options as there is no way I would buy them with my cash for a later date. Along the stock bad luck, our 401k manager Charles Schwab is a complete idiot. I think only one fund made money last year. Awful and the funds even in good years always underperform the S&P. Pathetic...

Well I'm off to pick Elena up at school.