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Speaking of Affordability

Recovered from the Wayback Machine. Speaking of affordable living, did you know that the American dollar is worth 1.92 Australian dollars at today’s exchange rate? So, if you have an income from the US and lived in Australia, you could indulge in mighty high living. What do you think, Australia — would you like more […]

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Home Affordability

Recovered from the Wayback Machine. The National Association of Housebuilders released their Housing Affordability rankings. I’ve been seeing a lot of bragging among the weblogs about how affordable certain webloggers home towns are. Opine Bovine points out that Kansas City is second in the larger cities, and 16th overall. Sharon (who has been sick, send her get well wishes) mentions […]

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I like San Francisco

Ev has posted a lovely picture of San Francisco. The pier is about a 10 minute walk from my place. Yeah, I like San Francisco, too. I love the Bay.

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Just stuff

Recovered from the Wayback Machine. Currently waiting on callback from PT about status of worker’s comp claim. Same old BS. However, the weather is beautiful again today and I’m off to rent a car at Enterprise. I have Christmas shopping to do this afternoon and I want to go for a hobble along Crissy Field one of […]

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Climbing Mt. Everest

I decided to spend some time looking at the history of climbing Mt. Everest because of a note I found at the PBS Nova Web site. It seems that a new expedition is heading to Mt. Everest, but the goal of this expedition is rather different than others. You see, we know that Sir Thomas […]