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It finally happened. Someone decided to google me after looking at my house, which is just up for sale. I am so glad, whoever you are ! I expected this earlier. The house has generated a lot of interest. The few open houses that we had were packed. The brokers love the house. A lot […]

It is always nice to experience people doing a good job. Today I have two such encounters. I feel much better about service in this country –
I am closing my equity loan at my bank. Arrived at the appointed time and a very young looking staff took me to his desk. He looked at most […]

I have a new Shuttle PC with a Radeon 8500 All-in-Wonder card so that I can do movie editing and also video capturing. I saved a few old PBS shows on VHS for years. These shows unfortunately are not available on digital format. Now with this card I can capture them and burn DVD from […]

This is the bath tub that I would like to have in my bath room, except it is ten times outside of my budget. Maybe just go over to Loft 523 in New Orleans to try it out and call it a day. I actually like both of the bathtubs made by them -Apage of […]

In the spirit of home land security, these are my two favorite quotes on duct tape:

In life you only need two things — if it moves and it shouldn’t, apply duct tape, if it should move and it does not, apply WD40.
Duct tape is like The Force; it has a light side & a dark […]

I have my brand new Shuttle PC setup with a Sony U500 DVD+/-R/W drive. So I worked on my Christmas home video on Vegas Video 4, and ready to try to burn to my very first DVD+R/W with DVD-Architect. Unfortunately it won’t work. It is having some programing writing the DVD prep file to the […]

I watched Gosford Park last night. It got me thinking about service. First, to quote from the movie: Mrs. Wilson: I’m the perfect servant. When they’re hungry, the food’s on the table; when they’re tired, the beds are turned down - I know it before they know it themselves. This movie is about a hunting […]

Just a thought — once nice thing about the suburb is that the town services are much easier to negotiate. We need to find out something about something in town, a broker can just head to the town hall and chat with their friends and find out things. Try doing that in a big city […]

Amazing marketing. The house goes on MLS. Immediately I start receiving promotional mail on movers and storage companies. Pretty smart idea. Think of it, since these MLS notification can be obtained easily on the net, there must be something I can sell people who are selling their homes? Ideas, Anyone?