Your Exceptional Life

What a gorgeous weekend!  We’re kissing 90 degrees right now.  My dogs are tired from playing and are laying around.  I went out on a slow bike ride today.  While working out at Maverick’s yesterday, I slipped on my last deadlift and injured myself.  I haven’t hurt myself like this since 1996 or 1997.  It’s [...]

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With the way the economy is going, everyone is cutting costs. As part of my body for life regiment, I eat a snack of beef jerky daily. Yesterday I bought a slab of brisket to make my own. I’m planting my own vegetable garden so I don’t have to buy them this [...]

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We had our first grass fire today. Originally I heard Sherman Island out in the Delta, but now they’re saying some other island. There’s a slew of ‘em up in the Delta, so who knows. April 11 is sure pretty early to be coming home to this kind of smoke in the [...]

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There’s been a lot of talk in the news and on the street about foreclosures. I am more intimately involved in this than most people, being in the title business. It helps that one of my closest friends is the Junkman. Yesterday, I held an open house for another friend of [...]

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I watched a woman driving up Treat Blvd. last Monday night.  She was in the lane next to me, swerving all over the lane, not because she was drunk but because she was texting and driving.  This just came across my desktop and I’ll link to it here for all my cycling friends.  The weather’s [...]

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I saw this on the Mortgage Cicerone this morning.  It’s actually not an April Fools joke, it’s pretty well thought out.
I was sitting in a bond closing a couple of months ago and the guys were playing with maps.live.com.  Most of them were high powered attorneys and had never seen it.  It’s something their paralegals [...]

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