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Popular Posts 2022
Another year. Another period of posting; but the ten most popular posts are all from before 2022. Why? MicroVision. MicroVision’s 2021 was such a story that it dominated this blogs traffic, including previous years’ MicroVision posts as people researched the … Continue reading
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Tagged affordable housing, health care, health insurance, healthcare, HoloLens, housing, inventions, investing, Mental Health, Microvision, MVIS, ObamaCare, personal finance, Re-retirement, real estate, real estate broker, Retirement, stocks, sustainability, tidal power
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Stepping Towards Re-Retirement
Post-publishing note: As of November 1, 2022 I am no longer a real estate broker. My real estate sites temporarily lead here. At least temporarily, those sites will be for sale: WhidbeyRealtor.com WhidbeyRealtor.net MyWhidbeyRealtor.com MyWhidbeyRealtor.net . This post describes why … Continue reading
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Tagged bicycling, dancing, Firewatcher, frugal, health care, healthcare, hiking, Mental Health, real estate, real estate broker, reretirement, Retirement, screenplay, screenwriting, skiing, snowshoeing, Whidbey Island
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Tea Charity Donations
It finally happened. The end of a quarter of the year. The first report of sales for Kettle Pot Cup are in. Nice to see. That also means the first donation is on its way. Donating money in an interconnected … Continue reading
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Tagged Charity, frugal, frugality, Kettle Pot Cup, philanthropy, real estate, SBUX, self publishing, serendipity, Starbucks, tea
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Positive Pent-up Progress Released
You know how it goes. The bumped pebble that hits a stone that dislodges a boulder that means a major portion of a mountain can become a flow that can reach the sea. Geologically speaking, landslides reaching the sea don’t … Continue reading
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Tagged ALAYCPYB, Dream. Invest. Live., frugal, frugality, investing, Kettle Pot Cup, personal finance, real estate, real estate broker, tea, writing
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Upgrading My Venerable Bicycle
I ride a 30-year-old bicycle, a Trek 8000, which I’ve described before as; “It is a classic, hard-tail, 1992-ish Trek 8000 mountain bike. No springs. No shock absorbers. No disk brakes. It is old, purple, and slightly rusted. It is … Continue reading
Artistic Passive Income
A reader, or at least a buyer, helped keep one of my books alive, today. Twelve Months at Merritt Lake had its first sale in over a year, today. I wrote it in 2006, definitely not even close to today. … Continue reading
Authors Always Have More Work To Do
The book is done. The work has begun. On Tuesday was the first book talk for Kettle Pot Cup, a book I published about tea. This is a book about real tea, not with pinky raised or head bowed, but … Continue reading
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Tagged #TomTea, Charity, dandelion botanical, Don Scoby, Kettle Pot Cup, Langley Library, personal finance, real estate, real estate broker, Sno-Isle, tea, Whidbey Island, WOWI, writers, writing
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Affordable And Unaffordable Housing
(WA state required disclosure: I’m a broker at Dalton Realty, Inc. http://whidbeyrealtor.com/). My house’s tax assessment came in today. Yesterday I was part of a group meeting about affordable housing in one of your local tourist towns: Langley. A month … Continue reading
Good Enough
Take a deep breath and find a good seat. A lot has happened in the last 48 hours; all of it is good, or at least good enough. Just for the simple nature of it I’ll start with a personal … Continue reading
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Tagged #TomTea, aerospace engineering, consultant, consulting, Cultus Bay, dandelion botanical, Dugualla Bay, Feather and Fox, Kettle Pot Cup, Langley Library, personal finance, Public Speaking, real estate, rocket science, self publishing, Sno-Isle, Twelve Month series, Whidbey, Whidbey Island
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Not According To Plan
That didn’t go according to plan; but, it is 2022. What does? Serendipity helped. About a week ago I finished my book about tea, Kettle Pot Cup (assuming the proof copy proves good enough, due in two weeks). It is … Continue reading
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Tagged Art, books, Dnipro, Dnipropetrovsk, Drew Kampion, Dugualla Bay, Kettle Pot Cup, perseverance, persistence, PNTP, real estate, serendipity, Twelve Month series, Ukraine, Whidbey, Whidbey Island
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