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Friday Afternoon Theme Music - September 19
2008-09-19 18:22:00 With hopes of a better result tomorrow night than the Sun Devils had against UNLV … You need to a flashplayer enabled browser to view this YouTube video Copyright © 2008 Phoenix Real Estate | Phoenix Homes for Sale | All Phoenix Real Estate Contact Jonathan at 602-502-9693. This Feed is for personal non-commercial use only. If you ...
No Big Surprise: The Bigfoot Was Another Hoax
2008-09-05 01:58:00 Ah, how sad. I was so hoping that the Georgia Bigfoot was the real McCoy. Instead it’s just another hoax.
I?m Famous
2008-08-23 15:47:00 I guess I’m famous. Anyone being interviewed is right? Shaun Tabbat, who also attends Bethlehem Baptist, recently interviewed me. I’ve just recently met Shaun and discovered we have many similar interests. I think you’ll enjoy this little interview. If I can get away with it, I might borrow his concept and start interviewing some of my ...
Football Hall of Famer Art Monk Boasts in the Lord
2008-08-14 20:48:00 Recently, Art Monk (along with fellow Washington Redskin Darrell Green) was inducted into the Football Hall of Fame. Instead of boasting in his achievements, however, Art Monk took the opportunity to boast in Jesus. Here is an excerpt from his Hall of Fame induction speech (HT: CJ Mahaney). …as great as this honor is, it?s ...
Bigfoot Found
2008-08-14 18:36:00 I’m not making this up! Check out this story from Fox News: Bigfoot Trackers Say They’ve Got a Body I’ve always been fascinated by the hunt for bigfoot. And I don’t buy the claim that modern science has everything figured out. We’ll have to wait for the news conference Friday, and the results from ...
Son of Hamas Leader Converts to Christianity
2008-08-13 20:12:00 Read the fascinating story of the son of a Hamas leader who converted to Christianity. FoxNews interviews him on his conversion, his thoughts about Islam and Christianity. (HT: Free From the Box) May many more Muslims come to the truth of Jesus Christ, and the freedom provided by the Cross. ...
A Little Fundamentalist Fun
2008-08-05 17:17:00 Check out a hilarious thread at Sharper Iron: “You might be a fundamentalist if…” (HT: Paleoevangelical). Some of the responses are downright funny. And as one who grew up in fundamentalism, some come too close to home. Mostly this thread has fundamentalists picking on their own quirks and oddities. Enjoy. ...
Friday Afternoon Theme Music - July 25
2008-07-25 16:57:00 After too many late-night outings, not nearly enough time with real estate blogging friends brought to life before my eyes, virtually no sleep for three days and the daunting prospect of a flight (daunting for someone who despises to fly), it’s both amazing and frightening to discover what seems absolutely funny at 7:54 a.m. This is ...
Friday Afternoon Theme Music: June 6
2008-06-06 20:01:00 This one’s for my mom, who would play this record (yes, kids, actual vinyl) when I was a kid growing up. I hadn’t heard it in many, many years until I bought a Jimmy Buffett album and a cover of the song was included. Suddenly I was back on Canteloupe Avenue in Panorama City … I’ll ...
Arizona State Softball Brings Home 1st Title
2008-06-04 06:13:00 On a warm, humid summer night in Oklahoma City (is there any other kind there?), Arizona State’s fab five clinched the school’s first-ever NCAA softball championship. This leaves the Sun Devils seven titles behind those who shall not be named in Pima County, but give the program time. Seniors Kristen Miller, Katie Burkhart, Jackie Vasquez, Mindy ...
Have $10,000 Burning a Hole In Your Pocket?
2008-05-31 23:18:00 The 2008 World Series of Poker kicked off yesterday at the poker room of the Rio All-Suites Hotel and Casino. So if you happen to have $10,000 to spare and would like to sponsor a boy and his beagle in exchange for a share of the spoils, we’ll be happy to take the trip to ...
Uh-Oh ? He?s on Memory Lane Again
2008-05-31 04:30:00 Sunset at Packard Stadium, home of Arizona State University’s baseball team. If you’re a sports fan, your life often is marked in seasons. Twenty years ago this spring I watched Mike Kelly homer off the ASU flag in left-field some 30 or so feet in the air, the ball just beginning its downward decent as the ...
Friday Afternoon Theme Music - May 30
2008-05-30 19:41:00 Have I done this one before? I don’t remember and I’m going to be lazy and not look back in the archives to see. Why would a Phoenician post this? Because I was born in Los Angeles and have been a Lakers fan my entire life, mostly to the annoyance of my wife. Since this was playing ...
Markets Work - DOJ vs. NAR redux
2008-05-28 02:43:00 I saw the following on Michael Wurzer’s FBS Blog as he analyzed the settlement between the Department of Justice and the National Association of REALTORSand had to pass it along. Is it too much of a stretch to say this is an extension of the basic premise that “markets work”? I don’t think so. I suspect the ...
Friday Afternoon Theme Music - May 23
2008-05-23 20:53:00 This one’s for my friend Ines in Miami, who today on Agent Genius asked what some of us do for fun on our blogs on Fridays. I started this feature with the Boat Drunks’ Callin’ in Gone since that was the dominant mood for the day. Since then, it’s all depended on my mood. We haven’t taken ...
Phoenix?s Bizarre Bipolar Weather
2008-05-23 18:13:00 One of the accepted realities of life here in Phoenix is once the thermometer crosses the triple-digit plateau, it doesn’t recede until October. It’s been that way since my family and I moved here from the San Fernando Valley 31 years ago (this very week, incidentally.) Which is what makes the last two days somewhat … ...
Candlestick where?!?
2008-05-18 05:11:00 Yesterday, when I was in Ramstor (yes, I know...) looking for candles, I came across a candle-holder which drew my attention. Now, here in Kyrgyzstan I generally wouldn't waste money on something as extravagant as a candle-holder. But it involved a lime green frog, and I thought it was cute enough to pick up and take a look at... Then I turned it over to check the price, and saw something which immediately made me decide to buy it, just so I could take the below photo:
Giving Back: Phoenix Children?s Hospital Fundraiser
2008-05-17 17:01:00 This coming Monday, Mike Foulds from my office - RE/MAX Desert Showcase - will be playing 100 holes of golf to raise money for Phoenix Children’s Hospital. If you’re willing and able to make a per-hole pledge of any amount … 25 cents, 50 cents, 1 dollar … please send me a quick note through the ...
Friday Afternoon Theme Music: May 16
2008-05-16 19:29:00 And another one gone and another one gone … Another one bites the dust! Hey! Gonna get you too! Another one bites the dust! You need to a flashplayer enabled browser to view this YouTube video Copyright © 2008 Phoenix Real Estate | Phoenix Homes for Sale | All Phoenix Real Estate Blog. This Feed is for personal non-commercial use ...
Happy Mother?s Day
2008-05-11 17:10:00 Every now and then, stray thoughts wander in the corners of my mind and I can’t seem to shake them. For instance, this one’s a Father’s Day story but it still will work. Years ago, Mets announcer Ralph Kiner was broadcasting a game on Father’s Day. Kiner was known for his wide array of malaprops and ...
Working Out the Kinks - RSS Now Operational
2008-05-11 05:26:00 Sure, changing the URL to AllPhoenixRealEstate.com was a good idea. If you’re following me in a feed reader, you should be able to see us now after a brief hiatus. Just one of the multiple details that seemed to slip through the cracks when I made the change yesterday. If only I knew I was going to ...
Friday Afternoon Theme Music - May 9
2008-05-09 20:00:00 My four loyal readers tend to break into two distinct groups - the public (which includes both my mom and my wife) and other real estate agents. This first one’s for the agents in the audience, particularly my blogging peers … with all of the changes the last couple of days, nothing seems more fitting … You ...
Evolution
2008-05-08 13:15:00 It’s funny, across time, and my experiences in it, I become more and more convinced that a Man’s Personality, who he is, how he defines himself, and sees himself in the world, evolves through a series of Beatrice’s.
By: Loopy's Manifold
Because I'm waiting for some podcasts to download....
2008-05-04 19:55:00 I've been tagged by Adeline... so here goes :-)1) What was I doing 10 years ago? Early May 1998, I was studying for my final exams of my second semester as a Freshman at Sewanee. I was also preparing to move to Gainesville, FL for the summer.2) What are 5 things on my to-do list for today (not in any particular order): Um, as it's nearly midnight, let's talk about tomorrow:1. Check if the vet is open (tomorrow is a holiday) and if so, take Lucy to the vet. She has a terrifying mouth infection.2. Edit my photos from Karakol 3. Plan lessons for Tuesday4. Go to Shmel (the fast internet cafe that recently opened up near my house; where I am now)5. Buy a cheese samsa. Yum.3) Snacks I enjoy: 1. Beer cheese. (Salted/smoked string cheese)2. Chocolate. Preferably dark. Possibly flavored with brandy.3. TRISCUITS. Man do I miss them.4. Cheese samsas4) Things I would do if I were a billionaire: 1. Establish a non-profit animal rescue2. Travel to as many places as possible3. Buy a 1979 Volvo ...
Friday Afternoon Theme Music - May 2
2008-05-02 23:41:00 What do you do when you spend the morning showing homes only to learn that your clients’ favorite home already has an offer approved by the bank and just wasn’t updated in the Arizona Regional MLS? You head to the nearest Tiki Bar of course … You need to a flashplayer enabled browser to view this YouTube ...
Morning miscellany
2008-04-30 16:11:00 Whether it's the flow of the news, or your friendly blogger's momentarily shortened attention span, we offer up a smorgasboard of brief items for your consideration today. Fed asserts new powers. "Banks, hedge funds and other financial institutions could find their investment strategies curtailed by the Federal Reserve to reduce the risk to the economy from asset bubbles, ...
Asking a Question Just Got Easier
2008-04-28 06:06:00 … thanks to one of the two new items over in the right-hand sidebars. In the first column, under the state-mandated RE/MAX logo (and the keep-the-owner happy balloon), is a shiny new contact form. All of three fields are required though I’m quite prepared to start receiving some questions from Mickey Mouse and Seymour Butts. And in ...
Requiem for a Princess
2008-04-26 00:14:00 As of 10:30 a.m., the house is cat free. This wasn’t intentional by any stretch but rather a case of Father Time taking its toll on all of us and those with four legs all the harder and more quickly. Princess was anti-social bitchy annoying my wife’s cat. She spent four years feuding with one of ...
Website Progress Coming in Fits and Starts
2008-04-25 21:24:00 It took less time than I imagined, but the new and improved Ventana Lakes Real Estate.com is up and running on the shiny, new Wordpress 2.5 platform. Once I work out some details with Hostcentric, I’ll be doing the same to both Arrowhead Ranch Living.com and Westbrook Village Real Estate.com. Though I’m rather pleased with the new ...
Dalton?s Arizona Homes Imagineers At Work
2008-04-24 19:27:00 Okay, I stole that one from Disneyland. (And for the record, the Columbia will not be sailing today. Just take my word for it.) Ventana Lakes Real Estate.com will be down for the next several hours while I convert the website from static html to a Wordpress platform. This will mean next to to nothing to ...
Lunchtime at Westgate City Center
2008-04-21 20:46:00 The Westgate City Center in Glendale continues to grow, with additional restaurants opening along Glendale Road just to the east of Loop 101. One of the new additions is Gardunos, a chain with a handful of restaurants here in the Valley and in New Mexico. Despite my fervent believe that it’s always 5 o’clock somewhere, the ...
A Business Miscellany: Booms, Busts, Blunders and a Great Deal More
2008-04-21 09:13:00 A Business Miscellany: Booms, Busts, Blunders and a Great Deal More# Author:Economist# Format:PDF 1.7MB# Page Count: 256 pages# Publisher: Economist Books; New Ed edition (October 26, 2006)# ISBN-10: 1861978669# ISBN-13: 978-1861978660Full of facts and figures about all aspects of business, "The Economist Business Miscellany" is designed to inform, amuse, and provide plenty with which to entertain others. The magazine's contributors and researchers clearly had a lot of fun putting this together and readers will share in that fun.
Letter by Letter: An Alphabetical Miscellany
2008-04-18 17:55:00 The 26 letters of the Roman alphabet operate almost subconsciously once ingrained in young minds. The resulting familiarity proves invaluable in life, but also makes it difficult to step back and examine letters as standalone objects. In "Letter by Letter", designer/calligrapher/artist Laurent Pflughaupt aims to do just that with an exhaustive overview of each letter in the alphabet. He begins with a historical look at the creation of early alphabets, starting with ancient hieroglyphics and proceeding to our current Latin-based system. Next, he takes a formal analysis of their physical structure using base-level observations while regarding letters as simple combinations of straight and curved lines. The third and final section occupies the bulk of the book. As the subtitle suggests, Pflughaupt looks at each letter alphabetically, tracing their evolution and noting their acute significance in various cultures. He borrows from many different fields, looking at structure through the l...
By: Fashion Newsweek
Friday Afternoon Theme Music - April 18
2008-04-18 17:33:00 Jimmy Buffett was at Glendale’s Margaritaville Cafe in the Westgate City Center last week but I didn’t have a ticket. This left me somewhat bummed, but given everything else happening last week it likely was for the best. Appreciation of Buffett seems to be a function of age, though I’ve been working on my 9-year-old since ...
Things You Don?t See in Phoenix
2008-04-17 18:35:00 It started at 3:30 a.m. yesterday morning, minutes before my alarm was set to start its obnoxious beeping. It came to a close last night at 9:10 after two flights - one to Denver and one home, several hours spent in Denver itself, more than one glass of Merlot at lunch and a run through ...
Friday Afternoon Theme Music - April 11
2008-04-11 17:10:00 One-handed fins to the left? One-handed fins to the right? Welcome to the time machine! Mr. Buffett was at the Margaritaville Cafe at the Westgate City Center here in Glendale on Wednesday. Do you think I got a VIP pass? No. Did my daughter, who has drawn about a dozen pictures of Buffett songs get a ...
Pardon the Interruption
2008-04-11 03:37:00 We’ll keep this one short. Well, short for me. This week I was scheduled to have two escrows close. There were some narrow scrapes on the second, but everything was completed today after our second final walkthrough. I also was scheduled to teach a blogging client how to use their shiny new blog, which I’ll tell ...
Friday Afternoon Theme Music - April 4
2008-04-05 00:11:00 A little bit of fun on a late Friday afternoon under 79-degree skies … have a great night! You need to a flashplayer enabled browser to view this YouTube video Copyright © 2008 Phoenix Real Estate | Phoenix Homes for Sale | Dalton's Arizona Homes Blog. This Feed is for personal non-commercial use only. If you are ...
Arizona Road Trip to Find the Woods
2008-03-31 18:18:00 We left the Phoenix area yesterday around noon in search of woods - more specifically, the woods surrounding the summer camp to which we may be sending our son in July. One of the oft-unheralded features of Phoenix and Arizona is the incredible change in topography and vegetation that takes place in a relatively short ...
Friday Afternoon Theme Music: March 28
2008-03-28 22:55:00 I want me some more Bob Marley … bound to improve any mood. Have a great weekend! You need to a flashplayer enabled browser to view this YouTube video Copyright © 2008 Phoenix Real Estate and Homes for Sale - Dalton's Arizona Homes Blog. This Feed is for personal non-commercial use only. If you are not reading this ...
Miscellany
2008-03-25 18:00:00 Best little country in the world: The Vatican.Why don't we take our medicine?Newsboys: NYT stories from the 1890s.Still fighting the last war: The Democrats.America's cleanest cities.
By: Tinkerty Tonk
Back from Naryn!
2008-03-24 07:05:00 Our three-day weekend in Naryn was great - just wanted to let you guys know that we made it there and back safely. I'll have a full post up about our trip on Wednesday. Probably.Also, the burglary fuckers in Waycross apparently made off with my swords. And possibly my video camera, although as I don't remember where I left it, it's difficult for my mom to check.And lastly, a feral cat that we feed in Waycross, but which we haven't been able to catch and fix, just had kittens. So if anybody in FL/GA wants a kitten, let me know. My mom's trying to socialize them, so they won't be feral like their mom.
CONGRATULATIONS!
2008-03-20 12:15:00 Congratulations to Melissa and Alex on the birth of their daughter, Madeline!
To The Folks at CityBlogUSA ?
2008-03-18 02:21:00 … yes. I’m blogging. I’m even really, really easy to find. And I have almost a thousand posts at this stage. So no, I don’t need you to make me my city’s “relocation specialist.” I’m doing that well enough on my own, thank you. Appreciate your notes and e-mails. Take care. Technorati Tags: real estate marketing Copyright © 2008 ...
Friday Afternoon Theme Music, March 14
2008-03-14 22:52:00 How is it possible I’ve been doing this for five months and never had Bob Marley music? Listen to enough of the joy coming from your television and it’s easy to get down. This tends to brighten my day. Hopefully it does the same for you. You need to a flashplayer enabled browser to view this YouTube ...
Miscellany
2008-03-14 17:05:00 Jindal for VP?Candy Stohr & River Jordan: More bad names.If celebs moved to Oklahoma, via Ace.Fawning over Fallon: Not the first time.The "Will and Grace" vote.
By: Tinkerty Tonk
The Games Real Estate Agents Play
2008-03-11 19:57:00 Just for fun … The Virginia Association of REALTORs gets it. It’s one of the few associations around that have adopted blogging as a communication vehicle. And as part of the effort to build traffic, Ben Martin has initiated the first annual Blog Brawl - a contest where you pick your favorite blog in a March ...
Two Housekeeping Items
2008-03-10 01:23:00 Two quick housekeeping items … first, I’ve switched to a different theme so all the fun stuff you’re used to on the left of the blog now is in the first of the two right columns. There was a logical reason for the change - the spacing issues in Internet Explorer were becoming a bear ...
Skipping Daylight Savings
2008-03-09 17:45:00 Since others around the country have taken the time to tell their local readers to change their clocks for daylight savings, I thought I’d take a moment to remind everyone here in Phoenix to leave them be and enjoy the year-round life in Mountain Standard Time (also known as Time Zone 7 on Microsoft products.) Technorati ...
Friday Afternoon Theme Music, March 7
2008-03-07 18:17:00 Posts admittedly have been light this week. That will happen with listings come onto the market and buyers coming into town. We’ll be back on the ball by the weekend. In the interim, if you’re near the water enjoy it … I’ll make up for it with a trip over to the Margaritaville Cafe at Glendale’s ... |
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