http://www.keepaustinproud.com/site Thu, 21 Feb 2008 21:30:55 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Everywhere you turn these days, the ecomonic forecaster gurus are touting our wonderful city, and I just want to share some of this information with you. Austin's population growth this century (just under seven years don't forget) has been truly great!  As an example, Dallas is the nations ninth largest city, ... http://www.keepaustinproud.com/site/2007/11/05/more-good-news-for-austin/ It is much too beautiful of a day to concentrate on being witty and entertaining.  But here goes, and I hope you will find this just a little bit entertaining.  Go ahead and copy and paste this, and send it on around the world.  That is exactly what I did! Three ... http://www.keepaustinproud.com/site/2007/11/02/its-too-pretty-to-concentrate-on-this-but-here-goes/ I attended an economic forecasting forum yesterday, with some of the smartest people in the world.  The forum was held in one of the smaller rooms of our convention center, and the tickets cost $75 a pop.  I was at a table that accommodated 10 persons, and my table number ... http://www.keepaustinproud.com/site/2007/10/31/lets-take-a-look-inside-the-crystal-ball/ Okay, so lots of you know that in my spare time I am a real estate Broker, which causes me to spend a lot of my day in my car listening mindlessly to the droning on-and-on of talk radio.  Sometimes (oaky, most of the time) I am just doing it to keep ... http://www.keepaustinproud.com/site/2007/10/29/make-a-fuss-let-em-take-the-bus/ Interestingly, trying to be a nice and courteous person seems to be the topic of conversations all over town.  I think it all started earlier this week when there was a story in our fine local newspaper about someone who tried obeying all the traffic laws for just one day.  ... http://www.keepaustinproud.com/site/2007/10/26/its-easier-to-be-meaner/ We are constantly reminded that we are the luckiest people in the world.  A while back, I wrote that I feel like the luckiest person ever, and it is true, I am that most lucky of people!  If I were a better person than the one I am, I would ... http://www.keepaustinproud.com/site/2007/10/24/four-letter-words/ I am already really, REALLY tired of the campaigns going on for years ad nauseum before the actual elections.  How long has the presidential campaign been going, and the elections are not even til next year!  Don't the broadcast media have any other catastrophes to report on?  Where are all ... http://www.keepaustinproud.com/site/2007/10/22/election-season/ Sitting in my office today, minding my own business, opening the mail and processing same...and lo-and-behold I find an piece of information tucked discreetly into one of our clients Austin Energy bill. Change a Light, Change the World.  TAKE THE PLEDGE!  Wait a minute, I thought that was my line!  At any ... http://www.keepaustinproud.com/site/2007/10/19/horning-in-on-my-time/ Yep, that's me, the luckiest guy in the world...although I know some of you out there might dispute that, since you honestly believe that you are, indeed the luckiest folks in the world!  And maybe you are... I don't think that we actually take enough time out of our busy days ... http://www.keepaustinproud.com/site/2007/10/17/the-luckiest-guy-in-the-world/ Well, the older I get the more I fear I will turn into my mother...not physically...just in the kinds of things that run willy-nilly through my little pea-brain! Yesterday was the Fourth Annual Choose Austin First Fest, and I'm sorry you missed it.  I am assuming you missed it because I ... http://www.keepaustinproud.com/site/2007/10/15/what-is-so-darn-important-more-evidence-that-i-am-turning-into-my-mother/