A long weekend is a very good thing at this point. I’ve been feeling pretty tired and busy lately, and a chance to take a day or two and lounge around and recharge my batteries is pretty welcome. And with an extra day in the weekend, I actually had a chance to do that yesterday, rather than spending all day doing errands around the house. Might even get a chance to be a lazy bum again today, but the list of things I want to get done before the snow flies is already starting to nag at me.
In Saints news, they made the championship. They’ll be playing on Monday and Tuesday down in Fort Worth (which means we won’t see Shreveport in St. Paul at all this year) and then they’ll be back home for games on Thursday, and Friday and Saturday if needed. Which means that next weekend could be busy again. And then on September 22, the Oktoberfest up at Gasthof zur Gemütlichkeit begins, which means at least one weekend will be planned with that.
- Now including MSP: Farecast offers airfare predictions, telling you when to buy a ticket for your trip. [kottke]
- In the Story Behind the Picture, Poynter Online looks at Who Owns JonBenet Photos? They’re not in the public domain, and the copyright holder is trying to enforce his rights this time around.
- There will be No Crosstown fix in ’06 — MN-DOT has finally admitted they just couldn’t put together a plan to get it done (for the budget they had) in 2006, and are now hoping to get construction started in spring 2007. [metro mpls]
- The Minneapolis Council rejects bid to restrict alley traffic. It’ll still be legal to walk through alleys. Sheesh. This never should have come up in the first place, and I’ve lost a lot of respect for Robert Lilligren as a result. Also noted in the same article, the city seems to have selected the vendor for deploying city-wide wireless service. [metro mpls]
- In a trio of real-estate-related links, ‘Exotic’ mortgages seen losing their allure, Sellers slow to wake up to the new reality from Dan and Hard Times On The Way, there’s a fair amount of gloom and doom predicted for those of us with ARMs. Yet for me, the same conditions that held when I decided to get an ARM still apply. Yes, the rate will go up. But it can only go up by one percent per year, and only for a maximum of five times. And one result of taking the job I did is that my income has already gone up enough to cover the highest possible interest rate I can end up paying. My point is that not all ARMs are bad, but if you’ve got one, it may be time to look at it again. [claire]