One Down, a Million More to Go…

May 4, 2012

Last night we had the final exam for the real estate course. I felt like I was walking into the Jaws of Doom, so convinced was I that I was gonna bomb the thing. I was totally unprepared, and so exhausted I could hardly walk. The past 5 weeks have devolved into one time-consuming, headache-inducing [...]

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Another best-laid plan defunct

May 2, 2012

{sigh} So the scheme to do a little market research and then race out to Tempe to meet my business partner got derailed last night. I was thinking the real estate course’s final exam took place next week, during finals week. No. It’s tomorrow! Forgot that these five-week short courses do not have dedicated final [...]

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Speaking of Time Sucks…

May 1, 2012

Signed up for the free access subscription to Literary Market Place. Useless. Will need to spend half a day in a library using the hard copy, since I’m not paying them $25 a week for the privilege of accessing the premium version online. None of the city libraries here open before 11:00 a.m., which is [...]

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Day at the Botanical Garden

April 30, 2012

The amazing Desert Botanical Garden, located in a small desert park on the south side of Scottsdale, is in full bloom at this time of year. Our friend KJG has a pass and invited me and mutual friend VickyC for a day in the garden. It is just gorgeous. Check it out. I think if [...]

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Time Management Revisited

April 29, 2012

Over at Wealth Informatics, proprietor Suba has posted a great article on her struggle to manage time and work. This, it develops, is a function of procrastination. Suba is a fine artist of procrastination, and what she describes as going on in her self-employed worklife is exactly what’s going on here. She kept track of [...]

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Home Prices…Up 20 Percent??????

April 27, 2012

Looking for your morning hit of amazement? Check this out. If that’s true, then the downtown house over which M’hijito and I have agonized for lo! these many months is now worth $216,000: six grand more than we owe on it. And…last night we had a guest speaker at the real estate class: a mortgage [...]

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