For Sale By Owner

I am about to sell my house and move to Boston, in the middle of a *huuuuuuuge* housing slump (according to the papers).

I spoke yesterday to a real estate professional who assures me that I’m going to lose money overall (i.e: not get my down payment back after I pay off the mortgage) and . . . → Read More: For Sale By Owner

Minneapolis

Would all my Minnesota friends please report in and tell me that you’re okay?

Thanks. I’ll wait.

Whining.

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Author again

I’m an author again.

I’ve tried to track these articles, but it seems that the publisher changes their directory structure every six months or so. I’ve taken to getting the pages in my browser and “printing” a PDF. Those go into a directory on my laptop.

Does anyone else out there have trouble with the . . . → Read More: Author again

God of War 2

I have defeated the best game of all time, on its hardest level.

Go me.

Meditation

I’ll share this one, but I don’t expect that it will make any sense outside of my own frame of reference.

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Extreme practice

Interesting thought this morning:

Given my spiritual trajectory this year, it’s not impossible to see me off doing some extreme meditative / spiritual practice at some point in my life. The specific example was that of a mystic: Slowly praying and chanting my way up a mountain over the course of an entire day. Whether . . . → Read More: Extreme practice

Snapshot

Until I found a mouse, hiding in the sack of thistle seed I had not considered How like a mouse poop a thistle seed appears.

Blog

I’ve felt a mighty blog post coming on for a while now … yet it just keeps slipping under the wheels of more pressing commitments.

For example:

* I finished the new Harry Potter. For the record, only a few of my predictions were anywhere close. Good book, good series, it’s done now.

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Wine

Started the Cherry wine. It’s an interesting process:

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