Two Years!

It's hard to believe that I've been working for two years. Yesterday was my second anniversary since I began working and it's flown by. Over the two years I've learned a great deal about tax credits, real estate, and business in general. I've traveled all over the southeast and am looking forward to a trip to Vermont in September! I've closed over $10 million of equity into three projects with my fourth closing coming up in the next week. Golf tournaments, a Bulls game outing has been planned, I've moderated a panel at our annual conference and have spoken on a panel at conference in West Virginia. It's hard to imagine that I've done so much in a relatively short amount of time, but I guess that's why we go to work. The best part of my job is by far attending the grand openings, especially after some people have moved in, and seeing the smiles on their faces as it's probably the best place they've ever lived and it's affordable!

Congrats!

Congratulations to my friend Mark who I've known since preschool and his girlfriend/fiance Megan on their engagement tonight!

Braves Fans

For you Braves and Tech fans out there so pretty much everyone that reads this, Mark Teixeira now has a song. I saw it posted on the Hive which linked it from Neal Boortz's site. I haven't watched many games recently, but have been following the team on the news and newspaper and they're still 5 games back in the division and 1 game back in the wild card race. On the positive side they've been putting up great numbers since Tex joined the team, a la Fred McGriff back in the day.

Thanks Tex! Enjoy.

Bye Explorer

Last night I sold the Explorer and now my second vehicle is gone. I've always thought it would be neat to have every car I've owned, but who needs that many vehicles? The Explorer is now in the possession of a family that lives in Creedmoor north of Raleigh that found it on the Autotrader website. Thanks to everyone that passed along the sales flyer to your friends and family.

Here are some fond Explorer driving memories:

Transition I




First time offroad, 2005 post-graduation OBX trip


Ferry across the Pamilico after UNC graduation


May 2007 OBX Camping Trip


Transition II

Weekend

After a blisteringly hot week the weekend was a nice respite from the heat. Saturday I went to the Allman Brothers Band concert at Walnut Creek with Tech Emily and her high school friends. It was my first amphitheatre in quite some time and while the crowd was large it wasn't sold out by any means which made for a pleasant experience. I recognized two songs from the evening, Statesboro Blues and Melissa and grooved along with the neverending jams. As with similar bands, the crowd at the concert was an interesting collection of people. There were old hippies, new hippies, yuppies, the country folks, the diehard fans, frat boys, prep necks, and however I'm classified and they are all normal in their own way. It's pretty cool how music brings such diverse groups of people together. The two opening bands were JJ Grey and Mofro and the Drive by Truckes. JJG&MoFro blew the Drive by Truckers out of the water and the rest of the group agreed. Speaking of the group, they were pretty cool folks and welcomed me with open arms.

Sunday I went to church, test drove the Explorer with a couple that I'll hopefully hear from today if they're going to buy it, and Sears finally delivered my washing machine after the first one was broken.

Thanks for the info!

I bought a 2002 GMC Envoy SLT with four wheel drive on Tuesday and my favorite passage from the owners manual is:

"Off-roading" means you've left the great North American road system behind. Traffic lanes aren't marked. Curves aren't banked. There are no road signs. Surfaces can be slippery, rough, uphill or downhill. In short, you've gone right back to nature.

Who comes up with stuff like that?

Congratulations!

Congratulations to Tom Glavine for earning his 300th win last night against the Cubs. I know a lot of Braves fans don't really like him anymore since he joined the Mets a few years ago, but he's still one of my all time favorites. Another one of my favorites is the Nike "Chicks Dig the Long Ball" commercial with him and Greg Maddux. Enjoy the goofiness below.