Hard Loss On a seminar trip I left my phone somewhere. As soon as possible I bought a “pre-paid phone.” That is what CVS calls them as I kept asking for a throwaway or drug dealer phone. It cost only $7.99 for a phone, home charger, car charger, earplug, case, plus a lot of introductory […]
Life in Suburbia DJ & I live in an area on the Eastern-most border of Orange County. We see many animals including deer, coyotes, condors, and an occasional mountain lion, etc. Some time ago I purchased a Gravity Catch and Release Cage Trap to try to reduce the rat population. When I catch a rabbit, […]
The Value of Sports Did I learn anything of value in spending so many hours over so many years practicing, playing, thinking, stressing and dreaming about sports? Yes. First, I learned that the adage about “You can do anything you want, if you want to badly enough” is not true. There is a small fact […]
John Hancock Tower I posted this photo on Facebook a few days ago, and many people knew the answer. In front of a green screen, but it was on the 94th Floor of the John Hancock Tower on Michigan Blvd in Chicago, Chi-Town, Windy City, the toddling town, etc. Michigan Avenue The Magnificent Mile on […]
By Leslie Eskildsen: Weekly Columnist with the Orange County Register and other Southern California News Groups, Duane Gomer’s neighbor, friend; Realtor at Realty One Group, Coto de Caza; DGS Real Estate Student Don’t wait to capture season’s colors in listing pics. Whether or not you have immediate plans to sell your house, there are some […]
Food Samples In a new mystery-attorney type book I’m reading, the lead character and her friend have no money and are hungry, so they say, “Let’s go to the Costco Buffet.” Many of you know what she means. I am a Costco person, and believe that the best time to go for the samples they […]
More Nar: Best story: A speaker was projecting a live example of a real estate agent rating site, “Incredible Agents.” He pulled up the listings of agents in the city in which he was speaking and started to read. A rating said, “This agent was the worst agent in the history of mankind. The only […]
