Until 1996, I was searching for the key to my life. With two failed college attempts in 1991 and 1993, I went through a mild depression, feeling useless, unfulfilled. It wasn’t till I took a huge gamble and moved to Washington DC, with little more than a trunk full of clothes, a sleeping bag, a bunch of CD’s, an Amtrak ticket and a hundred dollars, and began a journey that jump started my career and began to fill a great emptiness in my life.This journey started off as a real test of mettle. I happened to find a help-desk job literally days after moving to the area, but my first days were a...

I had recently written an article in my commentary “The Unattainable American Dream“, a look into the increasingly unaffordable housing market, especially in the DC Metro area. The Washington Post has a good article< about recent trends in the area.

As I sit here pondering what just happened over the past 24 hours, the best phrase to summarize it is “stunned, but not surprised”. For decades, Washington DC has been trying to woo Major League Baseball (MLB) to set up shop once again in our nation’s capital. A few months ago MLB agreed, as long as a sstadium could be built, and financing was secured by the end of the year. Well last night, at an 11th hour push, Linda Cropp dropped a bombshell, and amended the agreement to demand at least 50% private funding for the stadium. The measure passed, and the former Expos future was...

Anyone that is surprised at the recent outing of Giambi, and the high probability of athletes like Bonds are on the strength sauce better known as steroids, then they are under some serious medication. To see how athletes have bulked up over the past 10 years you’d have to be blind not to notice. The fact of the matter is, in all levels of sports, professional, amateur, collegiate, and even lower, there is a demand by our peers to perform beyond expectations, and these athletes are willing to oblige to get that big check. If we were serious that we didn’t want athletes doped up, then we...

Just when you thought that once you are armed with good data about buying a new car, a new variable get’s thrown into the mix. We have had the new-car horry story experience with Triangle Mitsubishi in 2001. So we thought we would be skilled to handle anything that comes our way on the next new car purchase. We were proven wrong.Initial interest (05.26.2004) So we get a piece of mail from Mitsubishi on how we can get up to $2900 in a refund to end our lease early, of course if we stick with Mitsubishi. Danyelle and I had thought of this in the past, and we weren’t hot on the idea of keeping...