Year: 2008

Mark it down! Market up!

Here’s something else that was sitting in the pile of draft entries I haven’t finished. It’s a table showing the standing of my house’s value in percentages, as estimated by Zillow a couple of weeks ago. The good news is, its value is still up by 78% from when we bought it.

Past: This
home		 Town County MA US
30 days -3.5% -1.6% -1.0% -0.6% -0.4%
1 year -8.7% -3.4% -4.7% -5.6% -8.3%
5 years -2.7% 8.8% 4.8% 6.8% 24.2%
10 years 71.9% 93.2% 91.5% 105.8% 89.9%
Since last sale 07/31/1998 78.6% 96.3% 96.6% 110.5% 93.1%
 

Voters are God?

This is one of a bunch of political items I didn’t get around to doing when the story was fresh.

Palin says election result rests in God’s hands

This is the sort of rhetoric that some eat up like ice cream, but gives others the chills. Neither the election, nor Iraq, nor the economy are in the hands of God. He’s got control over things like earthquakes and meteors colliding with Earth.

Not Dead Yet

I realize that I’ve lost some blogging energy and haven’t posted much lately, and what there is has perhaps very little interest to most. I’m working on some things that will hopefully be more entertaining to you. But there are gutters to clean — again — and leaves to rake, and guests are coming over today then we’re all going out to dinner.