I am not fluent in honey bee language. I have learned to recognize the sound of an angry bee (I would suggest getting some distance away quickly!), and I know what a hive sounds like under normal conditions when we are inspecting, and the change in sound as they are disturbed or agitated.But exp
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01/21/2025
Take a quick scroll through ActiveRain's blog roll and what do you notice?How many of the 20 posts on the page make you want to click the post? Probably not many of the 20 made the cut, so how do you increase the odds that YOUR post is one that gets seen and opened?Consider the blog roll your st
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01/14/2025
Corporate buzzwords come and go, but one that stuck around was "bandwidth". In this case, it had nothing to do with sound waves or anything technical and everything to do with human capability to handle work.In my engineering job a typical month required me to write approximately 4 reports. Dep
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01/07/2025
2024 is a wrap (almost). The ball is dropping tonight and we flip over the calendar to a new year. "May you live in interesting times" has never been more accurate.Lawsuits with major impact on how we do business.Interest rates up. Inventory still down.Mix in a healthy dosw of election year unce
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12/31/2024
Yesterday I returned from a five day trip (to meet our builder at our new home, lunch with an Annapolis classmate, and then a few days with my parents).As soon as I stepped in the door, the Chihuahuas were happy to see me, as a friend noted, a cacophony of Chihuahua barks and yips and a crowd at
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12/24/2024
This morning I received a call from a homeowner in a subdivision that I have an active IDX page on our Wordpress site and a blog post written in July 2012. Yesterday I received a call from another homeowner in a different subdivision, this time a bank had given her my number to call. The source
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12/17/2024
One of the best things about ActiveRain is that you get to decide how YOU participate (or not).And that participation style and amount may change over time.Some may only comment, that's a valid choice.Some may only post and never comment, another valid choice.The number of comments I leave now is
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12/10/2024
If you are a dual career agent, you're a professional time juggler by necessity. You probably establish certain routines that work for you and increase your productivity. Being efficient at performing a task that is actually a complete waste of time isn't a win (well with the exception of that
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12/03/2024
Cleaning out my engineering office cube I found old technology: a Sony Discman, floppy disks of various sizes, a card for dial up access numbers while on business trips. In our basement is a Betamax VCR and a VHS player, and a box full of old laptops, cables, connectors, and other peripheral eq
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11/26/2024
This is my last week as an engineer/real estate agent. Friday is my last day filling the "engineer" part of my dual career life. I'm cleaning out my cube and when you've been doing this as long as I have, you collect all kinds of tidbits. Pictures of the non-digital variety complete with negat
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11/19/2024
