ReadyfortheCrush's Xanga

Moving

Fri, 09 Oct 2009 22:13:10 GMT

I think I'm moving: http://readyforthecrush47.blogspot.com/
for commentary

http://47readyforthecrush.blogspot.com/

for favorite pictures.

BBQ!

Fri, 05 Jun 2009 22:21:15 GMT

Ulterior

Tue, 12 May 2009 20:36:15 GMT

Ostensibly I take pictures of people at work for this newsletter. Really, I just take their picture because it's neat.

Anthony gave our cleaning person some flowers:

This is actually a good idea.

f/8.0

Wed, 29 Apr 2009 22:46:59 GMT

Guess what?

This lens kicks ass.

Monday, April 27, 2009

Mon, 27 Apr 2009 20:20:12 GMT

nobody reads this blog, so...I'll tell the truth.

Mon, 06 Apr 2009 19:37:10 GMT

But only for a minute.

A house is not an investment.

Ever since I graduated from college I've heard people talk about buying a house, or a condo. It's as if it is the most important financial decision for 20 somethings.

Now, I knew that there was a bubble and stuff, but I still thought, "once the dust settles, I'll buy a cute house and it will be my home and a good investment."

That's totally wrong. This U.S. median income in 2005 $'s

http://www.census.gov/prod/2006pubs/p60-231.pdf (this is the link to the census site)

As you can see, median income has gone nowhere since 1967.

http://bigpicture.typepad.com/comments/2008/10/hs-dent-confere.html (just some website with the home price v median income chart)

And home prices are, over the long run, a certain ratio of median income!!!! I mean, of course it would be, but I just somehow thought, deep down inside, that they would just keep getting more expensive.

So, a home is only an investment if a.) You know for shizzle you are buying a house in an area where demand will rise in the future and prices will go up. (New Orleans post Katrina, Seattle 1984) ,
or b.) If you are willing to sell during the next bubble.

I'm saving up my cheetos for something else.

Families

Mon, 16 Mar 2009 22:24:55 GMT

I didn't take this next one, but I wish I lived it.

Tin Can Equal a Happy Man

Thu, 05 Mar 2009 23:41:13 GMT

This picture is sort of awesome.

Wow, I got a lot of really good pictures of Maite at that party!!

><<<><><><><><><<<>><<
A multiplicity of my coworkers are caricatures, walking stereotypes of a type of person I've never
thought to meet. One person, I'm not kidding totally reminds me of Michael Jackson, and she is
nothing like MJ.

Thursday, February 12, 2009

Thu, 12 Feb 2009 00:36:45 GMT

Mixture

Sat, 07 Feb 2009 00:29:05 GMT

Someone I know got married recently. I wasn't there, but for a variety of reasons, when I saw the pictures...I...wished I had been there to take pictures. The album had 40, I would have taken 400.

Anyway, work.

It's hard to explain how not joyful work is, but this guy on the left does a good job of expressing it. He was posing.

No significance, just the best picture of the speaker.