Home is anywhere: Week 5 recap

Week 5 has wrapped up, and it was quite a roller-coaster ride. As of midweek there still wasn’t a single interesting prospect to look at, but then one came on late in the week that promised all kinds of magic. It has all three things we’re trying to improve: location, one more room, and top-floor placement. Seeing the inside on Sunday, however, was a bummer. The kitchen sink was the same kind that I had in my semi-crappy apartment in grad school—that is not a selling point. And the all-important third BR upstairs turned out to be just okay, with a bathroom off of it that only a person under five feet tall could comfortably utilize. In fact, the shower was nestled under the eaves such that the curtain rod was at an angle—you had to hook the curtain at the tall end so that it didn’t slide down to the short end via the cruel pull of gravity. Since I still feel the bitterness of that first rush of disappointment, I almost want to reject the place outright, but that would probably be irrational. So I think the game plan is to wait and see if it languishes on the market. And if someone is willing to house only munchkins upstairs and offer the asking price, I’m not interested in competing with that.

A far happier report on the weekend would focus on the sporting angle: the weather was actually warm enough for cycling (yay!) and we managed to play tennis even though Swami’s back is not 100%. Another successful round of calorie burning to offset all the consumption.