Friday, March 16th, 2007
No Skiing This Year
It looks like I won’t make it to the slopes this year for skiing. I may never get beyond the beginner level. Here is a link to my Skiing Photo Gallery page.
Entries from March 2007
Thursday, March 15th, 2007
Return to North Fortuna
Completed a 2 hour hike in Mission Trails today. I first did this hike last May.
Wednesday, March 14th, 2007
School Photos (K-9)
Back in 2002 I created a thumbnail photo gallery of my grade school photos. Now that we all have broadband, I uploaded the photos in their original size. Below is my 2nd grade photo. That could be the ugliest shirt ever made.
School Photos
Tuesday, March 13th, 2007
Betting Against The Market
Back in December, I explained how one could bet against the market easily by using ProShares Ultra Inverses. This can be risky investing. You either win big or lose big. Timing is important and you really should pay attention to the market daily.
Another option is to invest in a mutual fund that [...]
Saturday, March 10th, 2007
The Greatest Blog Post Ever Written
If you have a blog and have ever been contacted by a reporter from the real media, head over to Calculated Risk and read Media Inquiries Policy. It’s so brilliant, I have it bookmarked and will just email the link to reporters and tell them to read it.
My own story. Way back in [...]
Thursday, March 8th, 2007
Renters Lose Money - 1 Year Later
One year ago, I explained in the post Renters Lose Money why I was renting and not buying.
I choose to rent rather than own because it’s A LOT cheaper today. Yesterday I got our building’s newsletter. It lists 9 properties for sale at an average price of $554 per square foot. If we extrapolate this [...]
Monday, March 5th, 2007
Ventura and Santa Barbara
Just returned from a quick trip to just north of Los Angeles. Met up with former San Diego bloggers Joe and Leah and had a good chat about web stuff.
Afterwards we went to Ventura, which was quite nice. National Geographic Adventure had a story about Ventura last year which sold me on visiting [...]
Sunday, March 4th, 2007
San Diego Wild Animal Park
Saturday was a great day to head out to the San Pasqual Valley and visit the Wild Animal Park.
Wild Animal Park 2007
Friday, March 2nd, 2007
West Coast Time
It needs to be said that people on the West Coast are awful when it comes to being on time. Meetings never start on time. Vendors never show up when they are suppose to and people also underestimate how long it takes to get somewhere. I don’t know what it is about Pacific Time that [...]
Friday, March 2nd, 2007
Lost in Mission Trails
Today I went for a 2 hour hike in Mission Trails, but ended up hiking for 3 hours when I got lost. The photo below is from May 2006.
