Hello I'm Rich Brown and this is my personal website and blog. I'm just your simple, average, down to earth, professional, out gay man and aspiring circuit boy, living in Phoenix, Arizona with a few things to say while trying to find my place among all the scary, conservative, religious nuts in this sick and twisted world.
Monday, August 02, 2004
@HOME. Yet another day working from home. I was actually contimplating going into the office today but when I woke up at 8 am I just decided I would work from home again today. I started reading Queer View Mirror last night. As with much of my book collection, I've had this one for some time now but never got a chance to start it. I decided I would read a little before bed to help me sleep. I chose this one because it's a collection of short stories and I didn't want to commit to a full read at the moment.
This weekend overall was rather uneventful. Justin and I watched "The Last Samurai" on Friday night. Saturday was spent catching up on some cached shows in Tivo and then off to Mykle and Doug's for dinner. It was actually a nice evening hanging out with them and talking everything from politics and religion to family. On Sunday, Justin and I were up early and decided to go both house and car shopping. From the car perspective we weren't really shopping so much as wanting to look at the Toyota Prius and Scion Xa, Xb and Tc. Of course they didn't have a Prius since the waiting list is rediculious for it. They did have the Scion's and we were able to spend some time looking them over. They are pretty nice cars for the price. Although I think Justin likes the Tc, I wouldn't choose it because the gas rating isn't very high. I just wouldn't see the point of something with a low gas mileage.
As for the house part, well we've been considering the possibility of moving. Well at least looking around. This is sort of twofold though. We both would like to have a newer house, but we both would also like to be in Central Phoenix. Unfortunatly the two of those desires don't go very well together. We decided to go and look at some of the new communities on Baseline around Central. There are some really nice homes going in over there and it's pretty close to downtown, but for the most part the homesites are pretty close to being sold out. That area is also pretty close to sketchyville as well. I think I'd be afraid living just south of south central Phoenix. There are some new communities going in out in Lavine, which is around 40th Ave and Baseline. That's not a far as the far west or far east valley, but it still seems just as far away. I wouldn't want to move further away from downtown then we are now just to have a new house. I don't think it's worth it.
After the new house viewing, we decided to drive into Central Phoenix and take a look around some of the historical districts. We drove through the Willow and Encanto districts. There are some really cute turn of the century houses. There are a few house for sale in those neighborhoods but the prices just seem so high for such a small house. I guess it's all really a trade-off for location. I've never been back in the Encanto-Palmcroft district before. I couldn't believe that some of those homes were going for almost a million dollars. They are all large houses built in the early 1910's & 1920's. The houses are beautiful and very big for central Phoenix. Oh well ... one can dream. I'm still swayed towards living downtown in a loft or townhouse, but Justin is diehard against it. I told him he just was lazy and didn't want to have to take Berg for a walk, but I know it would be difficult to have to walk Berg outside everytime he needed to go out. It's just that loft living seems to be the only way you can get something new and reasonably priced with a good location in Phoenix. I do think that Central Phoenix / Downtown is going to grow substantially over the next 10 years. I think it would be a good move for the longterm.
Well anyway I guess I better get back to work. Another interesting day at the grind. We are supposed to have a team building exercise tomorrow afteranoon at Gameworks. I so don't feel like going there. I really don't enjoy playing video games that much anymore, and as per last time, it's not really a team building exercise since everyone goes off on their own. We'll see what happens. Cheers.
