Loans

Been in a "Pet Shop Boys" mood, musically, for the last day or so. Thankfully there's lots of them on the iPod (143 songs so far), so all is good. New Rufus and Destiny's Child out now, too. Coolness.

Reading up on federal loan guarantees, and trying not to fall asleep. Yuck. Not the most thrilling thing I've ever researched, and one I suspect is going to haunt me for a long, long time in my career here at the Big Government Agency. I say this because one of my predecessors in this position is still dealing with some stuff he did on loan guarantees back in the 80s. Eeck. I'm glad to have the institutional knowledge to tap, but man, what a pain to have to deal with these for 20-odd years. Especially since it appears they don't work that well, from the taxpayer's point of view (we end up bailing the companies out far too often).

Made a to-do list this morning on the Metro. I've been neglecting too many things and they need to get handled soon, so now I have a guilt list to remind me. Hopefully will get these things done. Need to start setting up a regular time for certain recurring home chores (like vacuuming every Saturday morning, taking the newspapers down on Sundays and the like) so those get done and I don't have cat fuzz all over everywhere like there is now. ;-p I love my beasties, but they make entirely too much of a mess.

Harrumph

Well, now I know why I haven't gotten my Visa Check Card from the Credit Union: they hadn't ordered it. ;-p Has now been ordered, should be here in a week. Dweebs.

Gym debates

So I was going back and forth with myself about whether to do a weight workout after work at the Big Government Agency (BGA) gym or the YWCA. There's the fact that I'm already at the BGA building, that I'll have to pay for public transit twice to get to the YWCA and then home, that I'm paying for the BGA gym and not using it since I'm not currently biking in to work (to get shower access I had to join the BGA gym), that I don't like paying for something and not using it, that I have to go up and down stairs at the Y to do the workout I want to do, etc., all of which pointed to using the BGA gym.

Then I remembered that the YWCA has towel service and the BGA gym doesn't, so the Y won. ;-p