When I bought my house last year, I thought I was getting a screaming deal @ 4.875% for a 30-year fixed mortgage. Then rates kept dropping. I re-financed @ 4.0% in Febrary, again thinking I had beaten the market. Now rates are at 3.75% (data from mortgagerefinancerates.org). I wondered, how
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Twitter Weekly Updates for 2012-06-17
Why do people have to ruin a perfectly good Perfect Game by trying to say it was the best perfect game ever? # Worst case NBA finals scenario. Still undecided, but leaning towards rooting for the #ZombieSonics # Ben Bernanke’s Pizza Order: http://t.co/azCLTt0r # Twitter Weekly Updates for 2012-06-10: Largest
Continue readingBasic Beading Supplies You Need To Get Started
When deciding to take up a craft, one of the main things you need to ask yourself is where you begin. Should you start buying supplies first, or just start looking for some how to books to try to determine what you need to do first? Do you take a
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Largest and Smallest Home-Road Batting Average Split Differential in Baseball: The Mariners return home tomorrow… http://t.co/TWINP3DZ # First visit http://t.co/TRxEHIw8. Then read the Grantland explanation. http://t.co/7nPs8ojd # Michael Jordan's manager while he was playing minor league baseball in Birmingham: Terry Francona # Twitter Weekly Updates for 2012-06-03: I'm hiring: Looking
Continue readingLargest and Smallest Home-Road Batting Average Split Differential in Baseball
The Mariners return home tomorrow after a pretty good road trip – going 5-4 and putting up a bunch of runs. I wondered, why can’t the Mariners do that at home? Largest Home-Road BA split differentials in baseball I looked at the home-road batting average splits for MLB teams to
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I'm hiring: Looking for a strong analyst. http://t.co/hfLDYDgJ # The NBA Draft Lottery was one of the most underwhelming "sporting events" I've ever watched. # I hope you don't work in print: http://t.co/NAbvLvdV # Twitter Weekly Updates for 2012-05-27: RT @jamesmurph More like Dancing with the SARS in reply to
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RT @jamesmurph More like Dancing with the SARS in reply to jamesmurph # Little known fact – Alan Thicke wrote the Wheel of Fortune theme song (and many other shows). # So Robin Thicke is trending on http://t.co/Z2rSNn92. He looks like Alan Thicke – turns out Alan is his dad.
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RT @jamesmurph More like Dancing with the SARS in reply to jamesmurph # Little known fact – Alan Thicke wrote the Wheel of Fortune theme song (and many other shows). # So Robin Thicke is trending on http://t.co/Z2rSNn92. He looks like Alan Thicke – turns out Alan is his dad.
Continue readingRenting goats to clear residential foliage is apparently a thing
I thought I had seen everything. But then, 40 goats were delivered to my neighbor for 24 hours to clear the foliage around his house. Apparently it’s quite a common thing in the Pacific Northwest. Only 18 hours later, they have eaten everything and are taking a well deserved break.
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