Realman
The RealMan blog is about Minot ND. The RealMan blog is North Dakota's longest running and most read blog about Minot ND.
ARCHIVED BLOG POSTS
2008
2
Comments
Incoming Air Force personel, oil workers traveling to North Dakota, please NOTE: This is officially the snowiest winter EVER in much of ND including Minot ND. Again, keep in mind EVER!!! So when your friends and relatives tell you how bad it is just keep in mind this is beyond unusual. I don't k...
12/30/2008
13
Comments
Some time ago I read about a website called greatschools.net which reports/grades schools. I thought what a good idea. How that I've checked the site out I'm thinking otherwise. I am the father of a 7 year old boy and an 8 year old daughter. They attend our neighborhood elementary school, Sunnys...
12/25/2008
4
Comments
Has the North Dakota Oil Boom Busted? That is the question I'm being asked most often these days with the price per-barrel down significantly. The simple answer is NO! So aside from the low price what is causing this commotion? The simple answer to that is your usual gossip of the uninformed and...
12/22/2008
5
Comments
In my previous post I mentioned that in our recent blizzard we had a very nasty wind chill. I had to make a correction to that post as I reported that we had a temperature of about -20 (that's 20 degrees below zero) but with a 40 mile an hour wind it was like 40 below... WRONG, as you will see fr...
12/14/2008
1
Comments
12/14/2008 We are experiencing our first "real" blizzard of the season. In fact this is the first blizzard I remember for awhile. It's not the snowiest storm I remember, in fact it was a bit wimpy when it comes to depth of snowfall. It has been one of the windiest winter storms but most important...
12/14/2008
AIR FORCE & OIL FIELD WORKERS BEWARE!Homes for sale under $100,000.00 as of 12/08/2008 = 4Homes for sale between $100,000.00 and $124,999.00 as of 12/08/2008 = 17Homes for sale between $125,000.00 and $149,999.00 as of 12/08/2008 = 12Homes for sale between $150,000.00 and $174,999.00 as of 12/08/...
12/08/2008
6
Comments
OK, we all get those advice emails that usually are totally worthless. Most of the time I only get to the 2nd paragraph before I delete them. This one caught my interest because I have a son who has high functioning autism and the headline of the email was something about getting your child to be...
12/06/2008
8
Comments
Are you looking to pick up a new computer for Christmas. Here are two quick tips I just experienced this week. #1) I purchased a Toshiba laptop feeling really smug that I got one of the best. The memory had a "glitch". Turns out that the memory on this model is integrated into the motherboard thu...
12/04/2008
Rainmaker
2,403,430
2,403,430
Bob "RealMan" Timm
Owner of Ward Co Notary Services retired RE Broker