best laid plans

Today I learned that people come right out and say a house is in foreclosure on the for sale sign. I had assumed that would be an admission of financial failure, but maybe it's the bank's way of announcing, "We're desperate!" When homeowners announce things like that, I think the preferred method is to report that the price has been reduced, which I always read as "We're not too good with reality," but could just be a comment on the skill of the real estate agent.

In other news:

• I am now sensitive to the styrofoam parts of my IQAir GC air cleaner, and why the heck did the Swiss decide to put styrofoam in an air cleaner, anyway?
• I think I got a cold when I went up to Phoenix to sniff that room. I am never, ever, going to go sniff that room again.
• The air in Southern California in the 1950s was worse than the air in Mexico City is now. I'm never going to visit the 1950s, either.

Ok, I learned that last one on a site that reported the same information multiple times on the same list of bullet points, so I'm taking it with a grain of salt. I'm still not going back to the 1950s.