Walsh Featured on NPR Twice Recently
August 30, 2009
My tiny hometown of Walsh has been featured TWICE in recent months on NPR. If you go look-up Walsh, CO on Google Maps, you’ll see how small and isolated it is. That said, it’s a big deal when anything like being on NPR happens. I think the last time it was in any sort of national spotlight was in the early 1980’s during the farmer’s strike. My dad was actually interviewed then for the CBS Morning News.
Anyhow, the first story was on NPR Morning Edition on September 5, 2008 about Robert Morrow, the country coroner, dentist, and volunteer fireman.
The second story which was on the NPR Morning Edition on November 3, 2008 were various viewpoints about how people there were voting, and included interviews of a couple of friends of mine. Cool stuff!
Be sure to check out the photo galleries in both stories– great photos!
Review of Blue Sage Realty in Westminster, CO — It Sucks!
August 30, 2009
My buddy Rod recently had a really bizarre and unprofessional experience with Kathryn MacGeraghty and her team at Blue Sage Realty. It sounds like a good place to avoid at all costs. You can read more about his experience here.
Blue Sage Realty in Westminster Sucks!
I also posted a review of Blue Sage Realty, Westminster CO at Yelp.
There are a few other listings for Blue Sage on the interwebs, so this is the one that he had this bad experience at:
Blue Sage Realty, Inc
8471 Turnpike Dr, Suite 220
Westminster, CO 80031
(303) 432-9898 Office
http://www.bluesagerealtyinc.com
Nightclubs Are Hell
August 30, 2009
I just ran across a brilliant article titled “Nightclubs are hell. What’s cool or fun about a thumping, sweaty dungeon full of posing idiots?” in the Guardian Unlimited. There are many statements in there that hold true for me, but I think this is my favorite:
I used to feel intimidated by people like this; now I see them as walking insecurity beacons, slaves to the perceived judgment of others, trapped within a self- perpetuating circle of crushing status anxiety.
Well said.
The Housing Bubble Crisis Becomes a World Economy Crisis
August 30, 2009
I really wish I’d taken my own advice a couple of years ago and tried to sell my place to instead rent for awhile. The bubble has burst, and it’s not pretty.
Stocks take a turn for the worse as investors scoff at the Fed’s decision to step in yet again, this time adding $3 bln in temporary reserves. At $35 bln (the sum of the first two repos), the Fed had already stepped in more aggressively than its actions following the 9/11 attacks to calm a nervous market.
Since a third injection is unprecedented, as such infusions typically only occur during a crisis, investors are again left wondering just how bad the subprime situation is and questioning whether or not an emergency rate cut would even be enough to avert a possible true credit crunch.
I’ve seen Jim Cramer go asplodey before, and mostly I just generally find him entertaining rather than taking his advice seriously at all, but he really went AWOL on CNBC about this same issue recently.
My assessors evaluation this year showed that my place has lost value, homes in the area are now selling for about 10-15% less than I paid four years ago, and many houses have gone to into foreclosure in this area. I’m still waiting to see what prices the homes that recently sold in a foreclosure auction went for wondering how much they will bring the value of my place down. I do somewhat regret buying a place when I was so young, but maybe it’s better in the long run to learn this lesson on a relatively inexpensive piece of property with a standard 30 year loan.
Shake Your Bacon
August 30, 2009
I think I just came across one of the most important inventions since the beginning of mankind. What is it? Something which I should order immediately; Bacon Salt!
Walsh Featured on NPR Twice Recently
December 6, 2008
My tiny hometown of Walsh has been featured TWICE in recent months on NPR. If you go look-up Walsh, CO on Google Maps, you’ll see how small and isolated it is. That said, it’s a big deal when anything like being on NPR happens. I think the last time it was in any sort of national spotlight was in the early 1980’s during the farmer’s strike. My dad was actually interviewed then for the CBS Morning News.
Anyhow, the first story was on NPR Morning Edition on September 5, 2008 about Robert Morrow, the country coroner, dentist, and volunteer fireman.
The second story which was on the NPR Morning Edition on November 3, 2008 were various viewpoints about how people there were voting, and included interviews of a couple of friends of mine. Cool stuff!
Be sure to check out the photo galleries in both stories– great photos!
An Unexpected Wii
October 28, 2008
I’ve been interested in owning a Nintendo Wii for quite awhile, especially now that we keep one at work and I get a chance every so often to play it. Since the weather was crappy this weekend, about the only thing Lindsey and I did on Saturday was do a little shopping, grabbed some dinner, and rented a few Playstation 2 games to play. One of the games, Rayman Raving Rabbids, was one that I’ve played at work before so naturally it reminded me of the Wii.
Early Sunday afternoon I started looking around on the interwebs about buying a Wii just for the hell of it. I found a couple of sites which tracked where you could by them online via RSS but I didn’t bookmark them. I’d read somewhere that you can sometimes come across them on Sunday’w because for whatever reason that’w when retailers possess been putting them out lately, so I started calling around to see if they had any:
Super Target: “We won’t own a shipment of them for at least a couple of weeks. Even then it’w only a few”
pastime Crazy: “No construct when we’ll get another shipment. Just try calling every few days, but it might be a few weeks.”
WalMart: “We had 5 in stock this morning, and I don’t think anyone has bought any yet.”
Wait. Woah, wtf, they keep them in stock? I’d just got done selling a bunch of stuff on Craigslist and decided it would be my only chance in quite awhile to get one, so Linz and I hurried down there.
Me: “Hey, I called earlier and someone said you possess Wii’w in stock?”
Walmart Lady: (lights up) “Yep, we do. Would you like me to go to the back and get you one?”
Me: “Yep!”
It was kind of crazy– since they weren’t out on the floor no one would own even known they were there. As it turns-out, I just got randomly lucky. Apparently they own been getting about 5 per week, which they usually put up for sale at midnight on Saturday. This past Saturday someone new was working and had no thought about this, so a bunch people came to buy them around that time and he told everyone that they didn’t possess any.
As I was buying mine someone else was getting one as well, and you could tell a couple of other people were thinking about it too just because they had them in stock. The WalMart employee (an older woman) was actually all excited about it and it was because she had a Wii as well and got a kick out of someone finally discovering they had them in stock. She gave me a couple of good pointers on games to pick and what accessories I needed (this was definitely an unexpected purchase so I didn’t already know that stuff).
You can read all about how cool it is in other places, and yeah, it’w totally a blast. Lindsey and I played Wii Sports and Wii Play the rest of the afternoon until she needed to go abode. So far I’ve mostly been playing Wii Sports– I also own Trauma Center but am waiting until Wii Sports starts getting a bit boring before playing it. Not sure what games I’ll buy next, but I possess my eye on several.
Shake Your Bacon
October 28, 2008
I think I just came across one of the most important inventions since the beginning of mankind. What is it? Something which I should order immediately; Bacon Salt!
Nightclubs Are Hell
October 28, 2008
I just ran across a brilliant article titled “Nightclubs are hell. What’w cool or fun about a thumping, sweaty dungeon full of posing idiots?” in the Guardian Unlimited. There are many statements in there that clutch true for me, but I think this is my favorite:
I used to feel intimidated by people like this; now I see them as walking insecurity beacons, slaves to the perceived judgment of others, trapped within a self- perpetuating circle of crushing status anxiety.
Well said.
The Housing Bubble Crisis Becomes a World Economy Crisis
October 28, 2008
I really wish I’d taken my own advice a couple of years ago and tried to sell my place to instead rent for awhile. The bubble has burst, and it’w not pretty.
Stocks take a turn for the worse as investors scoff at the Fed’w decision to step in yet again, this time adding $3 bln in temporary reserves. At $35 bln (the sum of the first two repos), the Fed had already stepped in more aggressively than its actions following the 9/11 attacks to calm a nervous market.
Since a third injection is unprecedented, as such infusions typically only occur during a crisis, investors are again left wondering just how bad the subprime situation is and questioning whether or not an emergency rate cut would even be enough to avert a possible true credit crunch.
I’ve seen Jim Cramer go asplodey before, and mostly I just generally find him entertaining rather than taking his advice seriously at all, but he really went AWOL on CNBC about this same issue recently.
My assessors evaluation this year showed that my place has lost value, homes in the area are now selling for about 10-15% less than I paid four years ago, and many houses keep gone to into foreclosure in this area. I’m still waiting to see what prices the homes that recently sold in a foreclosure auction went for wondering how much they will bring the value of my place down. I do somewhat regret buying a place when I was so young, but maybe it’w better in the long run to learn this lesson on a relatively inexpensive piece of property with a standard 30 year loan.
