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about life: About Food And About Thought - 05/12/12 12:41 PM
My family is laughing at me that after I became a vegetarian, I started watching Food Network. Sort of compensatory action… Let them laugh, I enjoy watching professionals and where else you can see the results in one hour better than in cooking? I am missing the tasting part of it, of course, but I put imagination to work. Sometimes I am even experiment in the kitchen, but my wife says the mess, that I cause in the process, outweighs my modest results. Anyway, when I saw that Groupon ticket for half price to Robert Irvine’s show at King’s Center in … (16 comments)
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about life: The Tale of a Bully - 05/08/12 08:32 PM
A true untrue story…
How can a true story be untrue? You're right, it can't. It is like a fisherman telling his friends about a fish he caught 30 years ago. They smile, but they don’t buy it. But he is telling the truth, he really caught this humongous fish... Will they ever believe him?
Stories like this belong to time in my past, and weird times reveal weird stories. So, here is the story and you be the judge.
In the Soviet Union the members of the Communist party had monthly party meetings. Every place of work had a party … (25 comments)
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about life: A Scent Of Freedom… - 05/07/12 10:46 PM
Like me, Vitaly, was a military instructor in high school in our small coal-mining town above the Arctic Circle in the now former Soviet Union. We worked in different schools in the same town. We often met for training exercises where we combined classes to form a platoon, and eventually we developed a bond between us, two very different people. We were critical of our propaganda, even though we were its product, maybe a bit on critical side. It was the era of Gorbachev and we could feel the scent of freedom in the air. Maybe not a scent yet, but a hint … (24 comments)
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about life: Rolex Daytona for $25 - 04/29/12 11:07 PM
It always fascinates me when my customers looking for somewhat decent properties ask me about the cheapest stuff they find on the Internet. Like my recent customers who were looking for a nice condo-hotel, and were very sensitive and picky (which is not a bad word), and then, before deciding to write an offer they asked about that $29K condo-hotel unit in Daytona Inn Beach Resort. Well, needless to say that not that there was not the “right” view, which they were very particular about, there was no ocean view at all. And everything else was not what they were looking … (8 comments)
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about life: Give Me A Hug - 04/22/12 11:46 PM
Coming back from the office, tired, want to forget about all the stuff and relax. Opening the door and he comes, our Timothy. He is hungry for love so it is either my son (on the photo) or me have to pick Timothy and pat and relax, even though his purring is not really the music...
But gosh, how wonderfully this works every time.
I think of making a video with Timothy. I have never seen a hugging cat before in my life. Here he is with both laws on a shoulder, but usually he really hugs you.
Making my … (3 comments)
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about life: I Applaud The Boy - 04/12/12 06:27 AM
Two days ago I saw on TV an episode where they showed a school bus, and the driver had a heart attack and passed out. A 13 y.o. kid noticed what happened and rushed and grabbed the steering wheel and brought the bus to a stop.
And after the bus was safe, he started CPR on a driver and kept doing it until the paramedics arrived. What stunned me, however, is that when the kid noticed it, you could see that he screamed and pointed to the driver before rushing ahead, so everybody heard him. And nobody moved, this kid was … (22 comments)
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about life: Goats in Charge of Vegetable Garden - 04/08/12 11:53 PM
One of the never ending battles in Daytona Beach is driving on the beach. Lawsuits, groups coming with all sorts of pretexts to ban beach driving, people who have too much free time on their hands, activists...
Volusia County rolled out the new rules for driving on the beach. Now it is a one way only, you have to go with headlights; at least one front window has to be open, and not texting.
Beach driving is a contentious issue and too easy for people to demand that there is no driving on the beach. It is a radical stance. Let … (18 comments)
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about life: A Little Pregnant... - 04/08/12 04:55 PM
It is Saturday, we are ready to go home. But there is somebody trying to pull the door instead of pushing... happens every day. They guy just ventured in to find out the prices. He is from Canada, but lives in Jacksonville, but likes our beaches, and stays in the condo-hotel where we have our office – Fountain Beach Resort in Daytona Beach.
He saw something o the Internet, we discuss the prices, the overall market, and the conversation is quite casual. He told us that his brother from Canada likes the West Coast of Florida. He then told us that … (16 comments)
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about life: Unencumbered Mind - 04/01/12 09:24 AM
It was very long ago, when my son was 3 years old. We were vacationing in my favorite place on the Black Sea – Sukhumi. They have a monkey medical research facility, which was created to find cure to diseases.
They worked with chimps, our closest relatives in animal world, but eventually part of their territory became a visitor park, and people would go there to look at different monkeys, and have a guided tour of this very large property.
They had monkeys from all over the world, different ones, not only the chimps. They had tiny ones and all … (19 comments)
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about life: Proud Parent - 03/30/12 06:40 AM
There is a saying that when our children are little, they think that their parents know everything. When they are in their early 20s, they think that their parents know nothing. And when they are in their 40s, they think that their parents know something...
Pretty much the opposite is true. When the children are little, we are proud parents. Every achievement makes us proud, and it is noticed and praised.
And as they grow, it changes to worries more than pride through the terrible teens. We are rarely proud of them when all they (in our opinion) are making mistakes … (21 comments)
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about life: The Art & Heart of Condo Living - 03/25/12 06:06 PM
A couple in their early retirement years leaves cold Michigan and moves to warm and welcoming Daytona Beach. They are downsizing, they sold their big home and bought a 2 bdr modest condo right on the beach, and they enjoy a nice ocean view from their balcony. The condo has “no pets” policy, and it is fine with the couple. They had dogs in their home in Michigan, but there was a large yard and dogs could roam it and they did not bother anybody. It is different in a smaller condo on the 17th floor.
15 years of living … (19 comments)
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about life: She Does Not Know That She Lost A Condo - 03/21/12 09:31 PM
This is a sad story. An older lady owns a condominium unit free and clear. This is a 2 bedr/2 bath direct oceanfront unit with gorgeous vistas of the ocean. Even from the bedrooms.
The unit gets on the foreclosure list. The plaintiff is the condo Association. The judgment is a bit over $7K. We can’t believe our eyes. Checking county records, and can’t find any mortgage.
Check clerk of the court’s site and can’t find anything there. Asking the manager, no info except that seems like there is no problem with the unit itself. Searching for the phone number of … (20 comments)
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about life: Entrepreneurial Spirit License - 03/20/12 08:02 AM
There is so much sung about American Entrepreneurial spirit. So much, that you start suspecting that something is not right here…
We tend to speak with great aspiration and admiration about things that we often do not have. The childhood in the 50s, when kids were roaming outside most of the day, and parents did not have to watch us like hawks…
The time when we could make a few bucks selling lemonade at the road stand…
The time when entrepreneurial spirit meant doing something…
Seems that we are now so regulated, that freedom comes with a big dent. It is … (30 comments)
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about life: A Monument To My Grandmother… - 02/29/12 09:15 PM
51 years ago a Russian/Soviet poet Yevgeny Yevtushenko published a poem “Babiy Yar”.
I am convinced that no other poem in the Soviet Union/Russia had the same effect as Babiy Yar. Ever…
It was like a nuke exploded in the Soviet Union. For so many people it was a breath of fresh air, a word of truth said in the empire of lie. For many others it was what a red cloth is to the enraged bull…
No, I do not think that this is the best poem ever written in Russian… but this poem stands out not on its … (19 comments)
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about life: Dreaming of Simple Life - 02/28/12 06:32 PM
Everybody does. And everybody have their own concept of simple life. Mine is a dream of password-less life. I even remember the time when we did not have it… But that tells you how old I really am…
Maybe I am that uncommon breed that hates passwords. Hates them with gusto. There is really not much that people can steal from me, I think… And these passwords are so freaking annoying…
But they are sort of unavoidable. So, I use one password everywhere I can. I do not care whether it is weak, or strong, I just need it so that … (25 comments)
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about life: What We Can And What We Can't - 02/26/12 10:49 PM
Quite some time ago I ran into an AR Member from South Florida, who was posting wonderful blog posts, and the only problem with it was that he used to copy the content from Miami Herald and paste it into his blog, and, of course, there was no attribution, nothing.
Well, attribution in this case is just an ethical point, it is not a legal one, and it does not mean that once you attribute it to the author and link to the source, everything becomes fine...
It does not.
The member took critique very personally and turned nasty, declaring … (13 comments)
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about life: Do You Really Know? - 02/26/12 09:37 PM
This is the Internet era. When we sit at the computer, who is the smartest, the fastest, simply the best?
We are....
We can get information by a single click, we can find anything and it means we know everything.
Is the ultimate knowledge a click away?
People walk into our office and ask a question, and rush away with the answer avoiding a conversation.
«I only need the price» or «I only need to know what the Association fee is» or for condo-hotels "what is the split between the rental company and the owner", or something else. Always bits and pieces … (4 comments)
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about life: if You Do Not Know What You Are Doing, Don't Do It. - 02/19/12 07:40 PM
My client wants to privately rent his friend's unit in a condo-hotel to a lady in a wheel chair. Fine, but she has two small dogs, and the resort has “no pets” policy. So, the Front Desk said “no”.
The lady stayed in this resort last year, and there was a problem with her, and she was told to stay away.
I am not involved in the whole thing, but my client is asking my advice, and I suggested he stays out of trouble. He said “sure” and kept digging deeper…
Next day he told me that the lady’s … (12 comments)
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about life: You Want My Opinion But Will Not Hire Me? - 02/15/12 10:48 PM
I received a comment on one of my “old” blogs.
- Jon,
Can you give an update on the status of Ocean Jewels condos, now? We're looking at purchasing one of their units.
Thanks!
I understand that Monty Googled Ocean Jewels and saw my 2010 blog post. As we know from the comment, Monty is interested in what I can say about Ocean Jewels, as he is considering buying a unit there.
This is by far not the only request of this type that I receive, often daily. If I try to write updated blogs in response, it would take … (50 comments)
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about life: Do You Enjoy Sex or The Art of Landing A Job... - 02/15/12 08:09 PM
He came to US from the Ukraine when he, like me, was 40. I was a regular guy, and Nick was a decorated guy, one who was involved in coming with his best men and pumping the concrete into Chernobyl’s reactor in 1986 right after the explosion. He was a big boss, used to have a company car, a driver… and still he immigrated to the US, was looking for every opportunity to work, took construction jobs and shoveled dirt…
His wife, a music teacher, took college courses in accounting, and she was able to land a job. Not a lot … (14 comments)
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