Recent Kos Favorites; Our Status

Kos posts well worth your time:

• Blacklisting the rainbow
• Piketty for Dummies (helpful if you can't even get in the queue at the library for his exceedingly popular book)
• Norfolk, VA. Going, Going, Gone Underwater
• Solar energy represents 74% of all new U.S. electricity generation in 1st quarter of 2014

Then there's the status of Our House, which isn't really ours. Our landlord, a basically decent guy, finding himself hit with an outrageous tax increase on the property we inhabit, is raising our rent by a commensurately large amount... it's not his fault; he's making no additional profit on this. Stella had already applied for an increase in hours worked per week, which she will know about in the next few days, maybe a week. I have something pending, too: my Social Security benefits application. So at the moment we don't know if we're staying here or moving, or if the latter, how soon the move will be. If I'm not around on the blog very much in the next couple of weeks, you'll know why.