Bob's Blog

"Now, I know longer school days and school years are not wildly popular ideas," the president said earlier this year. "Not with Malia and Sasha, not in my family, and probably not in yours. But the challenges of a new century demand more time in the classroom." - Barack Obama***I was an educator ...

Each month I post the average residential sales stats for our region using MLS data. This month I have started to provide a bit different analysis that goes beyond month to month variations and looks at trends that occur within what statisticians sometimes refer to as the "tube" of variation. In ...

We have all heard of horsepower, but the farmer who rents the agricultural land on my property has gone one step further - cow power!(Photo credit: Richard Turtle) He has installed a couple of methane digesters that take the waste from the cattle (cow poo) and turn it into methane which is used t...

Ok, I'm in quandary. I have spent well over $3000 in the past year on print ads with just about no results. In fact, almost all of my contacts have come from the Internet or open houses. So, today I found myself talking to a graphics artist about car wraps and what he might be able to do with the...

I'm not sure there is such a word as "hyper-pointer" but I am morphing the term from those Prius owners who have to squeeze 70+ miles from a gallon of gas and are called "hyper-milers". I will never get mileage like that, and I imagine that my having 500,000 points here could be several years awa...