March 2006
One year timeline of me: What you've been missing

So much smoke coming in through vents and floor we must run two air filters 24/7. Furniture and clothes (in closets and coming out of dryer vents) smell like smoke. Condo board is sympathetic, but it's not illegal to smoke even if it's making us sick. Cost of sealing entire condo (floors, pipes, vents) prohibitive and no guarantee it could keep toxic air out. Come to conclusion that, while up to this point we've enjoyed a polite bubble of retired or upwardly mobile neighbors and escaped the downward spiral of rest of the neighborhood, it is time to move on. Put condo on market. Same week Washington Post and New York Times publish series of articles about how east coast real estate market bubble has burst and warns people away from condos as poor investments. Thanks. Great timing, folks.