Timelies all!

Going to Malice Domestic, a convention devoted to the traditional mystery(though the definition of "traditional mystery" is pretty flexible) this weekend. It's being held in Bethesda, so I'm commuting. I'll head there later this morning.

Ii am at the airport.

Gross

Headed to Dallas, Lee?

Hopefully

Hopefully

I think Lee is on a janky internet connection.

Or else very very hopeful!

So I was at this meetup last night, and at some point we were telling stories of Nerdy Events We Had Been To, and in the course of her story, someone mentioned a group from "a Buffy board." I was all casual, "Oh, which one?" Turned out to be from the Mighty Big TV days.

would have been wild if it was one.of.us.

So, I was looking on zillow (which, by the way is fucking crazy making. Do not look at the site if you value your sanity) to price out my current home to see *about* how much under water I am.

I am probably about $14,000 under water (before looking at fees and real estate commission). With commission I am about $23K in the hole without other nonsense.

This is a lot of money.

I'm trying to let this amount of $$ sit with me so I don't hyperventilate. The worst thing about this amount of money is that if I could pay it down at low interest rates, I wouldn't freak out. But there aren't low interest rates for unsecured loans. I could buy a honda accord tomorrow at that price and have payments I could manage. But not to pay off a mortage that's under water!

I could do some credit card balance transfer bullshit, but those have fees attached and I am not sure I have a card with a balance that high.

I just applied for a revolving line of credit from my credit union which will cover $10K of it. I will sell my body for the rest!