Zzzzzt!

Three electric vehicles that look reasonable for getting to the park-and-ride and around the neighbourhood and such:

Highway-legal when released; only available as stupidly expensive kits right now:
http://www.commutercars.com/
Very car-like from the outside, appears to carry four(!), local dealer, but the top speed of 25 mph kind of sucks:
http://www.mcev.biz/vehicles/streetlegal/streetlegal2.html
Not at all car-like, but enclosed, simple, plus: CONTROLLED BY LEVERS! Top speed 45mph, carries one person with cargo or two people without:
http://www.nevco.com/

Oh, and also;<gir voice>HI COW!!!</gir voice>

( Here, have some quizzes and other silliness, too )

I hate this market

The sellers of the Briar house are getting all snotty. They're hinting that they want more earnest money (tho' this gains them NOTHING financially), and for us to drop our condition-of-sale clause for 5026 (to which I again say, "uh, no"). They've also hinted at us raising our offer above ask, I think, but that may have been me misreading PaulF.

Anyway, they say they're expecting a second offer this afternoon and will let us know tonight. I'd put our odds of getting this house at "low."

I hate this market. I really fucking do.