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So, I was on my way home from sending back UPS-like the sales closing papers for Barn 7, that is all done and ready for the new owners, and at the same time taking advantage of their Notary Public services to have my affidavit and lawsuit against Jeff Meola and Chris Ryan notarized and faxed back so they can have a pleasant weekend contemplating the destruction and retribution I shall levy on them, and so it was getting late and I'm tooling around on my new bike cruiser and came across the beginning of the Miami Beach HS Homecoming football game in Flamingo Park (yes, the same park in which I'm taking tennis lessons from a real mean no nonsense bastard).

You're not gonna believe this - guess what the school sports team's name is -

The High Tides.  Yep.  The High Tides.  I thought that was great.

The new beach bike, fully outfitted-

Carrying rack with mesh net with flashing back light-

Krypton lock with water bottle...

Nother place to store things.

Front light and odometer.

My new old school Wilson getup for the courts.

And the beach.

This fantastic 720 sq ft mini-me barn in Barryville is a super exciting home.  Everyone who walks into it simply blurts out the ultimate compliment - "I could live here."

For those of you not from or familiar with Sullivan County, you may not be aware of how that county was put on the front lines of the debate over hydraulic fracturing.  How every town board meeting, editorial page and newpaper issue was dominated by the issue and its specifics for years.  It was really like living history (and to a history buff, it was kind of cool).  And you want to talk about aggravated harassment, -jesus, follow the creation, evolution and tactics of the anti-fracking movement - the whole idea was to harass public officials into submission and intimidate anyone else out of the discussion.

But I digress.

So, I'm on the beach, Miami Beach to be exact, and I open up the Sunday Business section to page 7, and the Header screams out "The Birth of an Energy Boom", and it goes on to say -

"One could argue that, except for the Internet, the most important technological advance of the last decades has been hydraulic fracturing, widely known as fracking.  Practically overnight, it seems, this drilling technique has produced so much oil and gas beneath American soil that we are that the brink of something once thought unattainable: true energy independence."

Considering the Times for years led the bandwagon of hysterical extremism against this domestic energy harvesting, it's been fascinating to watch its business pages evolve into subtle and not so subtle support for domestic gas exploration.

For me, as someone who from day one was suspect of the carpetbaggers landing in our small towns with tales of horror and catastrophe, the evolution of this grey lady's reporting has been welcome indeed.

And the fact that the whole country has adopted some measure of fracking and gas harvesting except New York says all one needs to say about this economically downtrodden, population-losing, politically paralyzed state.

At least France agrees with New York. (low blow I know).

(my writing desk)

So, as you may have noticed over the years, the blog for me is not only a tool to communicate and market, but it's also a tool to figure stuff out when it goes off track - since it is public and as I work my way through my rationale and reasoning I'm forced to discard easy self-rationalization and easy one-sided conclusions, since lord knows my comment box and email would blow up with alternate points of view to consider.  The truth takes time, and takes effort.  And writing is an introspective process.

And since probably the most important attribute a business person can have is the ability to 'get to the bottom' of an issue, quickly, concisely, and accurately - misdiagnosis is perilous,-  and in the difference between accurate situational analysis and inaccurate analysis lies the difference between success and failure - With resources always scarce, drone-like accuracy in problem solving is paramount.

Anyways. not the point of my post - my point is to add to what I said a few days back about protecting our clients from the war that is buying land, designing/building homes etc...  I think I may have said what I wanted to say in vague and literally language when really it couldn't be more simple -

Our business model revolves around 1 thing - protecting our clients from the retarded, self-defeating, nose-off-your-face spiteing, counterproductive, moronic, for no-good-reason, asinine, disloyal, alien-like actions of a fair amount of people we deal with in order to get these homes built in - for the most part- economically-distressed areas.  For the most part, we surround ourselves with the A team, but that does not in any way lessen the focus of our antenna on identifying and outmaneuvering the next desperate act of of self-defeating, project-distraction.

Basically, we've seen it so much that while some times it has the ability to still shock (like the recent Jeff Meola treachery), most times we are seeing it come long before the person actually even has the angry logic fully formulated in their heads.

So I guess that's my point - we communicate well with our clients, - be it the good, the bad or the ugly. So whether it's a good, bad, or frustrating conversation - at least there is comfort to be had knowing that we are jousting with the same language, in the same universe.

That is not true as we filter the project plans down through the ranks.  And being introduced to that new universe is a lot easier to deal with when you are ordering firewood than when you are spending $300k on a new house.

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