{"id":788,"date":"2006-03-31T11:51:00","date_gmt":"2006-03-31T19:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/?p=788"},"modified":"2006-03-31T11:51:00","modified_gmt":"2006-03-31T19:51:00","slug":"what-a-difference-a-year-makes-or-does-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/?p=788","title":{"rendered":"What a Difference a Year Makes&#8230; Or Does It?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I took a minute to look back on <a href=\"http:\/\/cahwyguy.livejournal.com\/2005\/03\/\" target=\"_blank\">what I was writing on LiveJournal a year ago<\/a>. What a difference a year makes&#8230; or does it:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Last year at this time, we were starting to look at houses, and I was doing a lot of posts on housing. <a href=\"http:\/\/ellipticcurve.livejournal.com\/\" class=\"lj-user\">ellipticcurve<\/a> had just opened escrow on her place, and the bug had bit us. So what&#8217;s happened? We did get <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cahighways.org\/aboutme\/home.html\" target=\"_blank\">the new place<\/a>, and we&#8217;re now in the middle of refinancing it to get rid of the option ARM. Given how interest rates have gone (we didn&#8217;t predict that right), we&#8217;re looking at a 5-yr fixed, as the rates on 30-year jumbos just make the payments untenable. So we&#8217;re doing the closing cost upfront\/later dance.\n<li>Last year at this time, I was scheduling my sinus surgery. I&#8217;ve since had it, with mixed results. Slightly less migraines, but I&#8217;m much more sensitive to pressure changes and incoming weather systems (for example, I have a headache today). I still have medical stuff on my mind, as I fell in the tub on a business trip about a month ago, and my shoulder and ankle are still sore. A week from today starts two days of medical stuff: annual checkup, dental checkup, eye checkup. I hope they pronounce me alive.\n<li>Last year I was figuring out when I would to go the So Cal Ren Faire. This year we know: April 29. If you&#8217;re in So Cal that day, join us. Other April weekends are full as well: <i>Forever Plaid<\/i> tomorrow at Cabrillo Music Theatre, Camp Visit Day on Sunday, <i>As You Like It<\/i> at the Pasadena Playhouse on the 8th, the spring Rail Festival at Orange Empire the weekend of the 22nd\/23rd.\n<\/ul>\n<p>So what was happening with you a year ago?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I took a minute to look back on what I was writing on LiveJournal a year ago. What a difference a year makes&#8230; or does it: Last year at this time, we were starting to look at houses, and I was doing a lot of posts on housing. ellipticcurve had just opened escrow on her <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/?p=788\">Read More &#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[79],"class_list":["post-788","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lj-xfer","tag-reflections"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/788","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=788"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/788\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=788"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=788"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=788"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}