wow, i'm not sure how long its been or what possessed me to post but i am back on lj for the first time in quite some time.

i'm sure its been well over a year, so for the record i'm married now. wed in santa fe nm on 72008. living in delray beach and loving it.

still in real estate, bought a 2nd office in may and waiting for the market to take off. holding my own until then but its rarely easy.

i spent this past wkend in wichita ks being best man to greg's wedding on an AF base. i went with my favorite ladies, viri and danielle and my Lindsey of course.

aside from that most is the same. i haven't changed all that much, but those closest might disagree.

these days its mostly my wife and my office. i want to start biking again now that the sun is up earlier. although i am in good shape overall. i've gotten lazy in the last 8 weeks and haven't worked out much.

not sure what else to add. i told my wife that i'd be home around 7 so i should shut down soon and head home.

On this day 145 years ago Abraham Lincoln gave the Gettysburg Address. Two to three generations later we have elected someone who was unfathomable back then. I think the most important point of those events is the reassurance that things can change, even if it takes time.

I am so glad the side of right won. The side that will not allow torture, censorship, and hopefully the freedom in which every citizen will be treated equal.

The Gettysburg Address:

Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.

Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation, so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great battle-field of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field, as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this.


But, in a larger sense, we can not dedicate—we can not consecrate—we can not hallow—this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us—that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion—that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain—that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom—and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.

food & wine, but really i just want the link for my records.

thanx Gbock.

http://www.dqrm.com/shows/lieberman-46.mp3

Embedded video from CNN Video

YAY OBAMA!

But you know who the real winner is?

Levi, Bristol Palin's finance. lucky bastard can wiggle out of his responsibilities now.

this afternoon i needed to drive out to Tamarac to drop off the finalized offer on a property that i sold on Las Olas for $485,000. in high school i worked in the Tamarac Publix so I decided to stop by and check it out. justifying it with the loose fact that i need more cat food.

upon walking around my old store, the place that i worked 14 years ago (!!!) thruought most of my high school years, made out with Natalie in the parking lot, had so many good times in... i was teary eyed.

i had forgotten how many memories that that place had of mine. i remembered conversations with friends long lost in the parking lot. i remember the sexual tension of working with teases in the backroom. i remember falling down the stairs of the breakroom. LOL

i could go on for days about all that i remember from those times. they were so fun. it was certainly one of my most fun jobs because i spent a lot of time with fun people and i was really good at my job at customer service. incidentally, i was the first male to work at customer service back then. god was i a slacker.

i got away with murder.

anyway, i felt proud to see where i am now. 9 days from 30, married, owning a business and making a big paycheck with this latest deal. nice five figures.

so i bought a bottle of rose champagne at the new liquor store next door and tonight Lindsey and i can celebrate life over it and the buffalo steaks she bought yesterday.

her mother flies back from Santa Fe tonight so i am going back to my apartment in Delray with Gio after we pick her up. oddly Lindsey's moms place feels more like home than our apartment, but i do love my apartment.

business has turned around nicely for me at the moment, so the brunt of my financial woes have subsided. now i feel like a million bucks, but i should beware as i am still in debt until i have a few more closings.

it is such a relief to see Obama doing so well in the polls. there has been shift in the electoral map since the 2nd debate and "according to the polls" Obama could win today without the remaining battleground states (including Florida).

however the latest poll in Florida shows Obama up 8 points.

http://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/maps/obama_vs_mccain/

only 25 days left...

anyway. I've been up since 5am preparing my 2007 taxes which I have to file by the 15th. I am meeting with my accountant at 9:30 so i had to have all my figures in order. it was a big relief getting to wait until after the wedding and honeymoon. hopefully i won't have to pay much. i shouldn't considering the beating that the market has given me.

(however i sold 3 br listing yesterday for a bargain price, $117,000)

i watched Lindsey's first live performance last night at her dress rehersal and she is great. her regular schedule starts tonight and runs til Oct. 26.

ok, i have to get ready and move some boxes around. my a/c guy is coming over in 10 mins to get things in motion on getting me a new a/c. my first a/c bill was $180!!! i have since found out that there is a crack in the coil so my landlord agreed to replace it, as opposed to subsidizing my electric bill.

i think i will take a bike ride and nap later. i got my road bike back from its tune up on Wednesday and ended up working all day yesterday (shh don't tell the other jews)

I'm sitting backstage at the Delray playhouse waiting fir Linds to finish her dress rehersal. The last time I was here she was auditioning and now I usually work late or chill at home when she's here. I came too late to sit in a seat without disturbing the performance so I'm laying on a coach on the deep dark depths of the theatre. I don't think I was ever really backstage before. It's eerie.

I took Linds to an audition for a different play in Boca earlier, in the woods. I think she has a good chance at being cast.

Btw I am surrounded by hundreds of boxes full of props. I should hit up a box for Halloween.

PS Pandora us the fuching coolest thing ever. I have it on my iPhone and it is like listening to a radio station of only your favorite songs. I highly recommend it.

Aside from that biz is a bit better this week and I started biking again. I did about 5 miles on Friday in my mountain bike, but my road bike should me ready on Wednesday. I thought it best to hVe it tuned up considering the amount of time and miles I put on it. That and I blew both tires trying to get it ready to take out.

The end. Back to some other random iPhone activity now.

The Great Schlep from The Great Schlep on Vimeo.

PBS is doing a poll which asks if Sarah Palin is qualified to be VP. The
right wing has organized a yes campaign--and currently the YES vote is
leading in the poll. Translation: Sarah Palin's competence as a powerful
woman and a world leader is currently WINNING a National Organization
for Women poll. If you are a Champion of choice, equal pay, women's
health and a zillion other issues that Palin doesn't care at all about
-- go here to vote now:

http://www.pbs.org/now/polls/poll-435.html

after watching photos of the MTV VMAs yesterday and then discovering VH1 on my tv today, i realize that i have made that transition. I am now more VH1 than MTV. I havne't watched enough VH1 to know how much yet. Do they play death cab?

I just drove back from Linds' mom' house. we slept there last night cuz Linds and Lisa are flying up to Boston today. i fly up tomorrow morning and just found out that i got upgraded to first class (2nd time!). :D

the best part about that is that i know that i don't have to worry about getting breakfast befor leaving. unfortunately, i don't think i'll have enough miles this year to qualify for my silver medallion again... however, if they included my honeymoon flights i'm sure i will. however since those were free i doubt they will.

in other news, we got our bed yesterday. pic attached.

HOLY CRAP! NEW KIDS ON THE BLOCK VIDEO! They aren't bad either and Joey grew up to look good. man i wish i kept one of those NKOTB sleeping bags!

i have to get to work and grab a suit out of storage to wear to tomorrow's wedding. the thought of a wedding is much less stressing when i realize that it isn't mine.

p.s. some of my wedding pics.
http://www.vladfilms.com/data/web/LindseyRandy/index.html

although i could puke from the bullshit that the RNC was spewing. i watched every day of both conventions but by the last 2 days of the RNC i only tuned in for the heavy hitters. however, i was cheering for the protesters.

i have been glued to various online news & politics sites for any new information. Linds and i have both become obsessed.

the rest of my time is spent keeping up with my enormous workload and trying to get set up in our new apartment.

I SUCK AT SETTING UP WIFI!

honestly, i cannot do it. i can take apart a computer and put it back together (and have parts to spare when finished), but I cannot set up a wifi network if my life depended on it.

i've been away for the past 3 weeks so as i was returning to the office i noticed that one of my newest and closest (in proximity) competitors had a sign to sell his office furniture. i spoke to him on the phone party because i would have bought it and partly to get the skinny. they shut down after less than two years in business because they never predicted that this downturn would last this long.

in some ways it is a shame. from a selfish business standpoint it is good for me to have less competition. however, i like those guys and i wish them well.

so in my mad rush to move out of my condo just two or three days before leaving on my honeymoon i packed like a madman and moved everything into a huge storage unit without much regard for what i put where. however now i see the shortsightness of that. i cannot locate my real wedding band, because we bought stand ins to take overseas and it is not where i thought i put it. that and i cannot find my little supply of marijane. it has been over a month since i have had an opportunity to partake and now that i have the evening free i cannot find my stuff. obviously the ring takes precedence.

how much do you want to bet that they are together tucked away somewhere... i spent most of my youth hiding things so elaborately that i myself would have trouble finding them. i guess some habits are hard to break.

speaking of. don't drink too much on transatlantic flights. there is little worse than feeling hungover while stuck in business class on a 12 hour flight. well, there's economy, but there the drinks aren't free so you are less inclined to drink in excess.

back from Thailand & Moscow and move straight into our new apartment in Delray Beach. I love it, but what I love the most is finally getting to use our Keurig machine. holy crap instacoffee is the way to go!

Thailand is AMAZING! you can keep Moscow. (exceptions if you speak/read Russian) every third woman in Moscow looks and dresses like a model.

I will go back to Thailand, if for nothing else but to buy art. We bought the most beautiful (huge) art for no more than $150 a pop.

There's much more to say, but I am at work and i want to run over to my old house to get some stuff.

peace.

I helped my first epileptic transvestite look at rentals on Tuesday, but sadly she stopped working up the street from my office. I called her (Gene) today to follow up and they started to say that she took a leave of absence, but ended it with "she doesn't work here anymore". oh well.

eplieptic transvetite was such a joy to say.

i went to a personal trainer today at 7am! argh. it was my 2nd time going to Lindsey's trainer. my new tux is starting to get a big snug so i had to take some action. i might start running a mile a day again in the mornings before work...

aside from that Viri and Danielle were in town this week so we all had dinner and they watched me try on new possible wedding ties with my tux.

i bought another new laptop. really just an upgrade from my smaller Asus to the newer version (the 900) with a bigger screen & windows. still weighs a bit less than 2 1/2 pounds. i didn't realize that linux would retard my ability to do some necessary work functions. it sucks because i do enjoy using linux. once i get the new one i will post my older eee on ebay.

other than that my assistant is doing ok. i caught a mistake he made today that he is going to have to spend a couple of hours fixing and that pisses me off. i paid him the first time and now i have to pay him again to make it right. i guess that comes with the territory, but it still sucks.

i am going to go home and take a nap so i can come back later and play catch up.

this made me smile. i had to share it with someone...

Friends, Family, Acquaintances of Randy...
The time has come to celebrate the departure of Randy as the rowdy, debaucherous, party animal he is and help lubricate his entry into husbandry and family life with his fine bride, Lindsey.

That being said, it's time to party!!!!!

Some of you know me, some of you don't, some of you wish you didn't. I'm the best man (term used loosely), Greg. I'd like to gather your ideas for sending Randy off right around the time frame of July 11th to 13th (week before the wedding). Randy has suggested something Bahamas based, but changed his mind based on the costs required to attend his wedding in Santa Fe. He has also suggested doing something local in South Florida including camping, drinking, gambling, golfing, boating, strip clubs (duh), etc. I'm currently overseas (I'm in the military) but will return in mid-June. I have email access and I check it often. "Reply to all" and throw out your ideas and lets come up with a good plan. If you are unable to attend and would like to be taken out of the mailing list, just let me know.


Talk to you all soon,
Greg A

so i am getting frustrated with myself for not completing this computer accounting task. i have a running appointment with my program trainer that i constantly reschedule and i feel guilty everytime that i do. i thought i would be under pressue to do it with the looming meeting, but i never do. err, i havne't completed it yet.

i have been working for about three straight weeks without a genuine day off. the only thing that came close was getting a haircut in south beach last week and even then i worked before and after my minor break.

i thought to take a day off during this week since Lindsey and her ma were to be home tonight, but much to my disappointment they are now staying til Saturday. thus making this the longest period without seeing my love since the first month that we met. it sucks, but i do have her darling puppy to cuddle with. it is sort of like a trial baby. she's laying on the floor of my office right now. i hate to leave her alone for long and she was locked away in a room for 5 hours already today.

it's weird, my late nighters died off pretty quickly. i don't mind working 7 days a week, but i don't nearly get as much done during the day with ringing phones and almost constant conversation directed at me.

i vow that i will close my door for the remainder of the week, or at least until i have completed my tasks.

i have like 7...err 10 piles of papers/folders laying on my two desks.

luckily my secretary is doing a great job lately and i think that i will reward her with something. cash probably works best, but she also deserves some sort of public recognition...

on the plus side i am going to play cards with the fellas tonight. i sorta think i shouldn't go so i can catch up with work but all work and no fun makes Randy a dull boy.

hasta piñata

i dropped Lindsey and Lisa off to the airport early this morning for Santa Fe. went to bed at 1am and woke up at 5am. :( they are going to be gone for a full week.

i fell asleep with the dog on my lap for about 45 mins at home but now i am at work. i think i will go home and take a nap after my 5 hour energy shot wears down.

i had too much to do to take the whole morning off. besides which i took most of yesterday off to go down to South Beach for haircuts and lunch. it was a beautiful day so it was nice to sit on Lincoln Road and people watch.

last night we booked flights to go to Boston in two weeks to visit Lindsey's dad and see our friends.

i also made a corporation for Linds' new luxury travel tours business. while we were in the formulation process she submitted a bid to do a 19 day Thai/Cambodia vacation for a half dozen people, so now we really have to speed up the loose ends. the next big step is making a great website. do you know anyone reputable who can make modern and functional website?

i dare to say that yesterday was a perfect day.

although it was crazy during the bulk of my office hours. there was lots of talking to attorneys about serious issues with mentally ill people.

however around 5ish i finalized the negotiations on a condo in downtown West Palm Beach for $519,000!

(cha-ching!)

immediately after conveying the news of the agreement to my elated buyer, Lindsey and I drove to Miami and watched La Boheme. SO MUCH BETTER THAN COSI FAN TUTTI! it was quite beautiful. especially if you like Rent. it made me want to listen to rent again.

we actually went to the dress rehersal because Lindsey's friend from Rollins is the main lighting guy. it was cooler because there wasn't any pretension in the air.

after the opera Lindsey and I had a phenomenal dinner at Azul at the Mandrain Oriental. Lindsey's been talking about it for so long and we were nearby and had cause to celebrate. Besides $200 for dinner isn't so bad when you go to the opera for free.

I had shimp encrusted halibut and she had beef shortribs. (mine was better!) and we shared a split of champagne.

we were super pooped by the time we got home and poor Lucy was a crying puppy was we got into the parking lot.

going to dinner w/ my mom tonight.