I can’t say this was the best year for new music, especially since some new albums were pushed into 2009. But I did get a chance to listen to a bunch of new albums in the last month or two of the year, and thought I’d put together a list of my favorite new music [...]
Read more →Hope you all had a great Christmas/Hanukkah/whatever you celebrate at this time of year. We had a quiet Christmas with just the four of us around. And I even got to skip snow shoveling for a day – huzzah! Meanwhile, we somehow soared to 45 degrees today, after two straight weeks of not getting out [...]
Read more →In tough times like this, it seems some of our fellow Tri-Citians have found a novel way of making a few extra bucks: by turning in criminals. So far this year, Crime Stoppers has paid out $3,800 in rewards to 20 people, with $1,400 given just in October and November, said Mike Blatman, the law [...]
Read more →… to shop for yourself! Actually, it wasn’t supposed to be that way, but I ended up buying myself a kinda-sorta Christmas present on Christmas Eve at Circuit City: It’s like this: Sean’s computer monitor died a few days ago. So he’s been without a computer. My laptop died on Tuesday, and after spending a [...]
Read more →From the New York Times in 1999: Fannie Mae, the nation’s biggest underwriter of home mortgages, has been under increasing pressure from the Clinton Administration to expand mortgage loans among low and moderate income people and felt pressure from stock holders to maintain its phenomenal growth in profits. In addition, banks, thrift institutions and mortgage [...]
Read more →What a completely lame week of blogging this past week was. Too busy with client work … too busy dealing with snow and super-cold temperatures all week … too busy with birthday and holiday stuff. How’s a guy supposed to keep a half-zillion blogs up-to-date with all that going on? Richland Real Estate Blog Richland [...]
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