Mondo-Mega-Super-Update-Wow

I understand its been a while since I've given the 3 of you that actually check my blog anything of substance beyond a Daily Show link, or a picture of something pretty (me in the suit comes to mind). So I will do what I can to change that this evening through the help of a couple glasses of wine. Please excuse the inevitable (geez, took me 3 attempts to even get inevitable close enough for spell check), spelling mistakes and misused words.

We'll start with the obvious and most boring. Work. Okay, so its not really that boring, but I'm sure you don't really want to hear about how the downgrade of the bond insurer Radian has lead to a steep (and slightly psychotic in nature) increase in the variable rates of some of our borrowers. Its exciting stuff I tell yah. Seriously. I love it. That's all you really want to hear right?

Not convinced huh? Okay, I'll let that one go for now. Just don't get me started in person, I might not be as forgiving and you might end up with a knowledge of municipal bond insurance that you didn't want. Besides the aforementioned variable rate drama, there really hasn't been anything monumental from my 6 week old perspective. I am to understand we're busier than normal, which has made the learning curve even that much more challenging, but everyone I meet as been an extremely pleasurable experience and I couldn't have asked for a more exciting place to learn.

For those that are curious what I'm working on currently you can always look on our website: http://www.whcfa.wa.gov/loansinprocess.asp


Missing from that list (Just noticed - which means I have work to do in the morning), is a deal with Airlift Northwest for two new helicopters and I believe one more, but its escaping my memory. Hopefully by the time you look at the link, I've updated our most recent applications.


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Onto more fun items.

Are you ready? This one is... Legen.... Dary (for those that don't understand how I met your mother reference, I'm sorry).

Tow (James) had a housewarming this weekend. Now that in itself wouldn't be a legendary occurrence.

Strippers, 15 bottles of Gray Goose and 75 people in a 1400 sq/ft house would be....

Unfortunately, we only got Doug to show up:







But hey, beggars can't be choosers right? So we made do and had one heck of a good time. None of us actually knew Doug was evening coming (12+ hour drive from Cali to Washington for a housewarming warrents a blog post i think)


I found out through a phone call, 10am, at work Thursday:

Doug, "Hey Bryce ... so.. how good of friends are we?"

Bryce, "Pretty good - why what did you do?"

Doug, "Ha. Well I'm about an hour outside of Portland heading your way. Can I sleep on your couch?"

Bryce, "Uhm, wow. Okay. Well I actually have a spare bedroom - its all your. The garage code to get in is .... Oh. And Forrest is going to bite you (he did)."

Doug, "Cool. See you Tonight"


And henceforth legendary tow housewarming was born.

Cheers:




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I was going to now post up the pictures from the Red Bull Soapbox derby, but I will do that once you all have had enough time to soak in "the doug".