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Imagine my inner delight when I learned that the same weekend I was to visit my in-laws with Sarah and dear little Catherine, the Democrat National Committee was to hold their meeting to determine the fate of the Michigan and Florida delegates at a downtown DC Marriott.

Yesterday I wrote about how Becky and I have tried to simplify our thinking about simplicity.  Today is all about how we’ve, over the last three years, simplified how we live as a result of that kind of thinking.  I want to be clear though that we have not “arrived” - whatever that is - but we feel we’re still in transition toward simplicity.

In wading through one of the transcripts in the Pentagon’s document dump referenced here, I came across an intriguing passage.

I don’t look up at the stars.

Sometime when I was a kid I remember sitting around a camp fire with a bunch of guys telling stories, burning marshmallows within an inch of edible, and poking the logs with a stick until the last scrap of wood was nothing but cold gray charcoal.  I had to be about ten, away from home, in the wilderness of East Texas.  Coyotes howled.  Trees creaked.  Winds moaned through the thick black all around me.  And I wasn’t scared with

So life continues here without ADSL (for the record, we’ve been waiting four months). Our ISP claims that they have done everything and the ball is in OTE’s court, and for that, we could wait months more. The irony is that if we had chosen an ISDN line we would have had ADSL already, but we kept thinking that since everything was filed already, changing the line to ISDN might have screwed it all up. But ISDN has its own inconveniences (like the ability to only use one

Where, or where is our Eva Perone? Krugman doesn’t pull any economic punches this morning, even though we have no Eva.

Mexico. Brazil. Argentina. Mexico, again. Thailand. Indonesia. Argentina, again.

And now, the United States.

Well it turns out that that the basic laws of economics really do apply to real estate. With home prices experiencing a quarterly drop for the first time in thirteen years, guess what also happened? Home sales increased.

I don’t consider what’s happening now in Real Estate to be a crisis. I look at it as