Yesterday I wrote a post about using outside material. The blog was inspired after I had read an AR post by a relative newbie. The person had completely copied some outside material. This is against the Active Rain rules, so I thought it was probably a good time for a reminder, not only for my
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09/30/2010
Okay Gang, it's time for a reminder lesson on proper blogging and the use of outside sources. When I first began blogging here at AR, I made the mistake of quoting large amounts of information from outside sources without giving proper credit to the original author(s). I was called on the carpe
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09/29/2010
It's kind of funny, but I'm the only person in our office who has T-Mobile as my mobile phone carrier. So when the office manager has to text me, she has to use some kind of special program because T-Mobile doesn't work with the program she uses for everyone else. Fascinating right? Well stay t
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09/29/2010
Okay folks. We all know about hyper local content and all that jazz here at AR. The idea is to provide community information to your reading audience. Diane and I want to take our kids to Florida around the first of the year. We don't have a travel agent and we're on a budget, given the econom
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09/29/2010
Let's face it. In today's market, buyer's usually try to control most of the real estate transaction. And appraisals are now a trouble spot too. How many times do you read here at Active Rain of low appraisals coming in and blowing a transaction?! Call me a control freak,but one of the simples
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09/27/2010
Diane and I were playing around with our Wii the other day when she decided to try out the ski jump. Below is the video I “secretly” shot of her. We still laugh everytime we watch it! If you have a Wii and you haven’t tried the ski jump in the Wii fit program, you don’t know what you’re missing!
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09/26/2010
Last night was the Fall Open House at the Alzheimer's facility where my mother lives. While watching the live jazz band, I looked at the elderly lady sitting in front my and had the strangest thought. I wondered what she had done in her life to make it possible to be able to afford to live in s
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09/24/2010
I bought a new kitchen faucet the other day. Yeah, yeah, I know. Doesn't knock you off your seat, right? It didn't me either...until I was actually shopping for the faucet at the home improvement store. After I got over the sticker shock, I began looking around. I had certain things I was lo
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09/23/2010
I believe Aretha Franklin sang it better than anyone could say it... R-E-S-P-E-C-T Find out what it means to me R-E-S-P-E-C-T Take care, TCB Oh (sock it to me, sock it to me, sock it to me, sock it to me) A little respect (sock it to me, sock it to me, sock it to me, sock it to me) Whoa, babe (ju
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09/22/2010
I was out showing houses in Tulsa the other day when I saw something strange below an outside staircase. I went to take a look and found this little guy. I nicknamed him the "moon man" because he kind of looks like the man on the moon. He is missing a part of his right cheek, but I love the ex
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09/19/2010