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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%
 

Jonathan Ross in a row

The BBC’s Jonathan Ross, who I have praised up and down here, not only for his documentary “In Search of Steve Ditko,” but for his BBC2 radio programme, is in major hot water. I don’t even know yet what the furor is all about, but I heard enough on the BBC World Service on WBUR in Boston to know it’s big trouble.

Our Confused Clock

Do you have a radio controlled clock that receives the shortwave signal from the atomic clock in Colorado? Eric has a digital model in his room, but the analog “atomic clock” in the kitchen is old enough that it doesn’t know about the change in dates between Standard and Daylight Savings time. So Sunday morning it had fallen back. I switched the time zone setting to force it ahead by one hour. Because it’s an analog clock, this is how it’s done. Looks like a time-elapse effect from an old movie
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