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ParticipantFor months, I have always had to login twice.
I go to the home page, login, then login again.I am having a problem on this new server. It regularly delivers a blank page. I refresh 1 to three times before getting the full page. Anyone else see this?
ParticipantRent a nice place and have the business rent all or part the place you live as a place of business. This will give you a deduction that isn’t much smaller than the interest deduction you would get for owning.
If you do this already – you won’t gain that much by buying.
I’m no accountant so consult your own for details.
Participant4plexowner – haven’t seen you here in a while, and I only check in occasionally now. Glad you are back! You are crazy, amusing and insightful.
I am soooooooooo with you on this one:
“Americans have developed a sense of entitlement.”
ParticipantThis is a pretty interesting post, mydogsarelazy.
Thoughs from one who was transplanted in San Diego 13 years ago:I’m nearly 40, married, kids. The single friends/married friends thing is pretty rough. I don’t think the groups are very compatible, in general, especially when the married friends have kids.
Strange thing is – I have recently discovered a social group of single guys that I do things with regularly now. I have two lives – stuff with the family and stuff with the guys. It is definitely two different circles, though. Both work well, and the family definitely comes first. You just have to find that single guy circle, I think.
Right now, with your medical problems and divorce, your friends most likely just don’t know if you want them to get in touch. They wonder about you, for sure, but don’t know if getting in touch will be appreciated or appropriate.
Divorced people can be, depressed, confused, angry, annoying, hard to deal with. Add in medical problems and they might be concerned that if they get in touch, they either won’t like what they find, they won’t know how to deal with you, or most likely they will be intruding somehow where they don’t belong.
Definitely up to you to take that step. I hope you do it. You likely won’t reconnect with all your friends, but you will find one or two that are surprised and truly thrilled you are healthy and happy.
RE: FLAKY CALIFORNIANS.
OH, MY GOD! Are there alot of flakes around here. I remember my first few years here. Every friggin week someone would flake on me personally and professionally. Drives me crazy. I can smell flakes a mile away now and until I know someone is solid, I don’t put much faith in the reliability of strangers unless they need me to make a final payment. When you find people who show up when they say they will – don’t lose them.I don’t think this is related to the fact that people are stretched thin financially. I think flakes are just flakes. They are unsettled, always feel they haven’t found what they are looking for and don’t understand the value of commitment. They are always looking for someting better than the great thing they have right in front of them. I know so many people like this here in SD.
Three thoughts for you:
1) Get in touch with those old friends. Tell them exactly what you told us: You’ve been through hell and are now coming out of it. It’s been a long time and you miss your old friends. If they are good friends, that will all make sense to everyone in about 5 seconds after you meet again.
2) Do stuff that you love with people you don’t know. I like to take classes. Sports or trade classes are great. Learn new things and meet people – soccer, tennis, welding, whatever. Just show up to class and meet people. Or compete in something you were once good at. I mean – jeez, there’s a club for everything now. Or join a team. Don’t wait to join with a friend. Just join by yourself.
3) You don’t have to hang out with married people all the time to be their friends. I have single friends that my wife and I do things with, but only when they have a girlfriend. Sometimes we won’t see them for months, but when they are looking for a double date, we’re in. So, keep those married people in your network, but understand you won’t do much together if you are single.
Participant“The media says it was due to increasing inventory. They don’t say anything about demand going down”
Growing inventory can be as much a result of reduced demand as over-supply. Which is it? Only the market knows.
By the laws of supply and demand, when prices are high, demand falls off, except for short-term speculative demand, which falls off a little later – after the bubble builds.
Reduced “normal” demand due to high prices, coupled with the end of speculative demand can cause big price changes.
Participant“my strong and witty writing style”
Caaaaan’t keeeep hands from key—-board.
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September 18, 2006 at 11:03 PM in reply to: I cant take it anymore! It’s a TRACT house not a TRACK house #35797ParticipantParticipant“What do the rest of you do to help your kids stay active and healthy?”
It is simple. Don’t give them crap food. How hard is it? They won’t eat good food? Just wait a few hours. They’ll eat. They’ll be hungry. Here – these are the things we have to eat. Period. My kids didn’t see, touch, or taste candy until they were at least 3.
What is the 5 year old going to do? Drive to the store and get some candy? I don’t think so. Scream and throw a fit? Well, maybe for a day or two, but eventually the kid will just eat. Start this young and never give in.
Halloween? Have you heard of the Halloween Fairy? Well, every year, you take a couple pieces of candy from your bag to eat, and leave the rest of your candy on the doorstep. The Halloween Fairy takes it and leaves you a kick-ass toy.
I’m telling you – I’m a Nazi when it comes to crap food. Well, for the kids anyway. I eat alot of it. Double standard you say? No. Clear-cut standard. Kids don’t eat crap food. Adults eat what they want. Don’t like it? Gonna throw a fit? Go ahead. I’ll watch. When you are an adult, you can eat whatever you want, too. Of course, the kids don’t really know I eat crap food, so it isn’t an issue.
Soda? Only dad drinks soda. Period. After 5 years of not having soda – my kids won’t even try it. Just for fun – I tried to get them to try a Coke the other day. “No thanks!” they said. Heh, heh, heh. I won that one. Why? Because I never gave them soda.
My wife does “new food Saturday” and they try something new every Saturday. We are about 5 weeks into this. The first time, one of them CRIED because she had to try something new. Now, she just accepts it and tries it, though reluctantly. Kids learn to accept new rules if you stick to your guns.
Because we don’t regularly give them crap food (or let them watch more than 1/2 hour of TV a day, we have more power over them in case of “emergency.” If we absolutely need our kids to be occupied for two or three hours, we can sit them in front of a two-hour movie and they will watch it start-to-finish without moving. Why? Because the TV isn’t on ALL THE TIME!! It is very, very special to watch TV. Other kids – you put on the TV and they watch for a while, then they roam around the house looking for Mom. Why? Cuz its on ALL THE TIME.
When I need my kids to do something new or scary or challenging, I can bribe them with a single Oreo. It is amazing. Just today they did something great – I gave them each 4 M&Ms and you would think I bought them a new car. Why? Because they only get it occasionally. They know not to ask for it, and they know to give us their candy from parties and school before they eat it.
ParticipantI have to chime in on this. Parenting is one of my favorite topics. I think it all boils down to parents being afraid to sit and do nothing, or pick them up and leave the party, while their kids throw a fit.
Underneath the surface of every kid with too much candy is a major fit that didn’t happen, smoothed over by a parent who
1) isn’t willing to stand their ground on a simple rule,
2) doesn’t realize they are bigger than the child and in control of every aspect of their life,
3) doesn’t understand that not giving the kid the candy will not kill the child, no matter how much they sound like a dying person whilst screaming.
4) is afraid to leave the party for fear of the kid throwing a fit over that, and/or
5) doesn’t believe that their kid will learn not to throw fits if, after several tries it doesn’t work.I do understand how people can slip into the trap of letting their kids run their life. I mean – terrorists have nothing on any 2-year old and master negotiators have nothing on most 4 year olds.
I can’t say it has anything to do with being over tired or with Real Estate. I have noticed theses things for the last several years. I think it is just laziness, and a little lack of education or understanding of how flexible kids can be, and how much control a parent can have over a screaming child by simply not giving in.
ParticipantIt isn’t the fraction of homes that are for sale, but the fraction of homes actually purchased that are important.
3% of homes may be for sale, but if only half of those are purchased, those are the ones that set the price.
ParticipantI thought his comment was interesting.
Just a suggestion – if you want to hammer someone, don’t hammer a decent post, just because you don’t like some of their prior posts. It devalues your own posts.
ParticipantZeal must have confused predictions with economic cycles which are repetitive and cyclical and don’t need predicting but only need to BE UNDERSTOOD.
Participantlending bubble – Are you suggesting all zip codes will depreciate by exactly the same amount?
ParticipantFurthermore, the price of oil has an upper limit, which is defined by the alternatives available. If it were simply impossible to duplicate the benefits of oil by other means, of course the price of oil would skyrocket out of control until every drop disappeared.
However, there are many substances/technologies which can replace oil even today, with no new innovations – they just cost more.
Once the price of energy created with oil reaches the price of alternative energy sources, some of which are only 2x more expensive, it will simply not go any higher. Even solar – currently the most expensive alternative, and certain to be come less expensive as time goes on – will keep the price of oil under $300 (I think – my wife threw out my National Geographic with relative cost info – darn it!).
My concern with oil is – how do we make plastic? This may drive the price of oil up, once oil is no longer used for energy.
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