Entries from August 2006

August 18, 2006

Plans at the City

Not only does the fair city of San Jose have a fancy new city hall and a questionably corrupt mayor, but they also have the plans for our house.  Checks have been signed for permits and plans are in the hands of contractors for final bids.
I’ve spent a lot of my free time this week [...]

August 9, 2006

From Granite to Laminate

Like a lot of people that are in this process, especially in the Silicon Valley Area, we were planning on using money from stock options and equity in our existing home to pay for this project. Unfortunately, Yahoo, my company, missed a quarterly number a couple of weeks ago which sent the stock price tumbling [...]