http://www.chezcliff.com Investor, Writer, Traveller and other stuff Thu, 01 Oct 2009 12:25:19 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Hello everyone! I'm in the process of moving over to http://chezcliff.squarespace.com/.  You can catch me over there. http://www.chezcliff.com/2009/10/01/time-to-wake-up/ Well guess what true believer: this blog turned four the other day.  Happy Blogoversary! For those of you who are still with me, thanks for hanging in there.  Sean recently said that real estate investing is actually pretty boring.  And it's true.  When things are flowing smoothly, its hard to generate ... http://www.chezcliff.com/2009/08/11/hitting-the-pause-button/ Wordpress is really starting to irritate me. I posted photos of the vacation on my dot mac site.  It's scary easy how nicely iPhoto plays with MobileMe. Follow the link below to see them all.  As usual, I organize the photos by location. These are the same albums my friends got to see ... http://www.chezcliff.com/2009/08/10/finally-the-photos/ All seven of us sat in complete silence, not exactly sure what to say. Matko, our boat captain, had pulled up in some small hidden bay.  His best-friends mom, who is arguably the toughest woman I ever met, hauled the boat into the dock and helped us out. Not understanding a single ... http://www.chezcliff.com/2009/08/06/overwhelming/ About day four of our Croatian adventure, our ship captain Matko said "You know, I'd like to take you guys to a place where I spent my childhood.  Sort of a second home." When you're in close quarters, you really do learn a lot about people.  Fortunately none of us had ... http://www.chezcliff.com/2009/08/05/resilience/