Recently somebody said, “Hey, you lost weight,” and I said, “Yeah, thirty-five [...]

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I would bet every reader of this blog has heard of Mark Twain. On the other hand, I would bet I’m probably the only person on this blog familiar with Craig et al v. The State of Missouri. This article gives quite a bit of insight into Samuel Clemens. Please read it before you read [...]

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“BOOM!  Here comes the BOOM….ready or not!” - from the song Boom by P.O.D.
Greetings from the Metropolis of Cedar Crest, New Mexico!
With a torn achillies tendon, I hobbled my way into the gym and turned up my Ipod.  The song Boom by P.O.D. (one of the best workout songs there is) came on and I [...]

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In a previous post I had mentioned I belonged to USAA. For anyone who doesn’t know, USAA is an insurance company founded by Air Force personnel back in the days when military members found it almost impossible to get insurance.
As it turns out, I had saved an article from their USAA MAGAZINE, Spring 2007, issue. [...]

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Greetings from the metropolis of Cedar Crest, New Mexico!
I just got back from a fun filled week with my youth group in Durango, CO. I (and three other adult sponsors) took twenty one high schoolers to a C.I.Y. conference hosted at the Fort Lewis College campus. We joined over a thousand other kids [...]

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One of the questions I hear over and over is “when will the real estate market return to normal?” There were so many newcomers investing in real estate that have no historical perspective of the market. So many things occurred that had never been seen before. People lacking in experience did not realize that this [...]

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I’m not one to beat a dead horse but I don’t mind kicking it a little. Last week I posed the question, What’s The Answer?
I surrounded the question with information and thoughts about valuation. Today I’d like to surround the question with a theory. It’s called the “We Are Desensitized Theory” and I put it [...]

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