Santa Clara County median home price rises to record: $803,000 ( Read more... )

http://www.paloaltodailynews.com/article/2007-7-28-mv-kwik-e-mart

So, yesterday I did some shopping. It was first real shopping trip in probably about four years. I would buy a shirt here, maybe a couple shorts there, but that's about it. This time I went all out, I went to American Apparel http://www.americanapparel.net/ and the GAP in Santa Cruz. I ( Read more... )

Common sense is seeing things as they are; and doing things as they ought to be. --Harriet Beecher Stowe ( Read more... )

$803,000

Yes, over $800k. This is not Hollywood, I would pay half that amount, maybe. Further evidence as to why I don't want to stay in the Bay Area forever. Ran into an old friend of mine he said "while it had its advantages, it was miserably congested, expensive, and pretty stressful".

Axis of uh-oh
http://www.markfiore.com/animation/uhoh.html

"Sometimes America must help evil to fight evil" LMAO

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y-Elr5K2Vuo

Far too many people invest far too little time in the choice. Some people think about kids as what they want, not what they are capable of providing, and not whether or not they are fit ( Read more... )

In the May/June 2007 issue of “Good” magazine, Josh Jackson provides evidence that Americans have “become slaves to our mechanical masters.” But his story doesn’t dwell on traffic jams, high gas prices and environmental ruin. Instead, he points overseas to five examples where city planners have liberated urban dwellers from their transportation ( Read more... )

So, apparently at work they have decided to change the schedules back to 7am-3pm, like they'd had it before. I'd just adjusted to the 8am-4pm schedule and I guess they might be chaning it back and forth to find out what they like. Very odd in my opinion but...I don't care that much, as long as I can keep my job ( Read more... )