So, it’s hump day. It appears that my internal clock has decided that 4:30 is plenty late to sleep in. Actually it would have had me get up even earlier, but I’m stubborn. I’m finding life to be quite tedious these days, and I think that’s got a lot to do with not drinking beer. I may be saving money, but there’s a empty void in my life. I’m also wrestling with this whole putting in an offer on a new house thing. I haven’t gone through this hoo-hah in about 20 years, at which point I bought a two-family home with a friend of mine so we could live in one flat and rent out the other. Sadly, we were both rather stupid and naive, and, while it wasn’t a horrible experience, we paid more than we should have, had lots to do to fix the place up, had the neighborhood go from not-too-bad to kinda crappy, and eventually had to pay money to walk out. Needless to say, I’m rather reluctant to repeat that experience.

As it stands right now, the sellers say they’re willing to move “some” on their price (but “not a whole lot”), while I need them to move “a lot” in order to justify the years of work it’s gonna take to get the place into shape. Hell, there’s still a shitload of work to do on the current place. Oh well.

So, I didn’t pay much attention to yesterday’s primary, but I see that St. John McCain trounced the teabagger nut he was running against. And the Meek may not have inherited the Earth, but he appears to have inherited the Democratic nomination for US Senate in Florida. Let’s hope he can manage to be the first black Senator from FL come November (I think with the Republicans at least theoretically split between Crist and Rubio, he’s at least got to have a chance).

The NY MTA is considering a fare increase to $130 for a monthly MetroCard (it’s $89 a month now). It’s not actually ‘monthly’ though, as they sell them as 30-day unlimited use. That’s $4.33 a day, and if you only use them to commute five days a week (at an average of 21.67 working days a month – 52*5/12), that would be more like $5.97 a day. Of course, it’ll hurt those who can least afford to pay more for the privilege of going to work the most, but then that’s how the world works, I guess.

Oh well, I think it’s time to go and do what it takes to get out the door.