45 Years of photographs and paragraphs from the life and adventures of a former Rock n' Roll kid from the Dundalk suburbs of Baltimore, Maryland who is an ex-Maine Bear Hunting Guide, and a county women's delight, a former US Army Photographer who later enjoyed times as a hitchhiking Hippie Type Hobo. And is now a widely known and well appreciated photographer and writer on the World Wide Web.

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Hi. I'm new here and thought I should post my first blog, for all to see!

I currently live on the eastside of Seattle (that is East of Lake Washington)...

My work background is Escrow (you know, the closing part of a real estate transaction!?)... I am also a licensed Real Estate Agent (all this license does right now is cost me money). I did make some money selling real estate in this area, 2-3 years ago. I have been divorced now for close to 5 years (and have...

Or at least it looks like I will be if things continue to look good after I meet with the owner of the house tomorrow.

We've already hashed things out on the phone so unless there any surprises I believe I will be moving into an actual house and will have my own bedroom in a couple of days!

Basically I will be trading computer work at $25 per hour for what he would normally charge in rent ($600 per month). That translates to 28 hours of work per month which is perfectly...

Today is the last day of August and it reminds me that the days of summer are coming to an end. Our children are in school. Football is the topic of conversations. And the days are getting shorter. Shorter is the part I don't like. The one thing I do like about the Texas summers is plenty of daylight hours in warm sunshine to get all the acitivities done. Running up to the store, stopping to grab a bite to eat with friends are life's simple pleasures when the beauty of the Texas skies is filled...

Last week mortgage rates held steady just under 5% for the majority of the week. We did have a brief scare mid week when it appeared rates were destined to rise to the low 5% range; however, mortgage backed securities managed to gain some momentum despite most of the economic reports being better than expected. As a general rule, better than expected economic data usually benefits stocks while worse than expected data generally benefits fixed income investments. It appears the big run up in stocks...