30 Year Relationship, Social Media Fumble

A few hours ago I submitted my second offer this month to purchase a piece of residential property in Portland. This time, thankfully, it's a better match for my income and need to be close to a bus stop that takes me downtown in 25 minutes. Plus, there's a tattoo parlor across the street, good coffee, and a $4 movie theater a 4-5 minute stroll away. Living at the foot of Mt. Tabor (okay, the far northeast foot) sounds like a good thing right now.

I'm glad there's an extra day in February - I would like to wrap this up by the end of the month. Let the painful waiting begin, and let's hope a scourge of Buyer's Remorse can be avoided. I don't want any teary nights over something as simple as where to live.

Post script annoyance: After 5 years of success in preventing LinkedIn from exploiting my Gmail address book, last Friday I fell a victim of clumsy social media management. Apparently I gave permission for this website to contact EVERYONE I ever wrote an email to and request a connection on LinkedIn. Ridiculous. Sure, there are quite a few invitations that were overdue or a victim of oversight. However, a healthy share of the invites went out to folks I've all been happily avoiding (purposely). These particular folks? Definitely not Facebook acquaintances. Lots of them are people that a) didn't give me a job I applied for at some point b) people I went out on one or two dates with c) people I don't even know. LinkedIn has attempted to get me to allow this mass transmission of invites for years. It has failed until now, and for that I do not forgive it.

Lesson of the week: don't trust LinkedIn's pre-populated dialogue boxes. They are intentionally designed to have people do exactly what I did.

Totally in the doghouse

I can't imagine what I did. Or didn't do.....

Okay, I can. Still, the fact that I am in the doghouse is so disturbing.

First time for everything.

Songs are easy to post

I've failed to regularly post as I have promised time and time again. Something I have done in the past is mention songs and artists I've been listening to that express my mood. It doesn't take a lot of poetic language or thought to do this. So I will continue.

Youth Lagoon, 17

Menomena, Wet and Rusting

Laura Gibson, Skin, Warming Skin