Green Valley Moments

I noticed a “Sold” sign on the property located on the Northeast corner of Esperanza Boulevard and La Canada in Green Valley.
Let me guess. Another bank?

There are some 14 million blogs, growing at a rate of 12,000 a day. Bloggers post content about 275,000 times per day on nearly every topic. One study claims that more than 50 million people regularly read blogs.
Forbes.com has identified 100 of the best blogs in 20 categories ranging from shopping, medical, political to […]

How can you improve your odds of a happy retirement?
Economists who have done work in the emerging field of “happiness research” came up with seven pointers.
The secrets to a happier retirement

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Konfabulator is a JavaScript runtime engine for Windows and Mac OS X that lets you run little files called Widgets that can do pretty much whatever you want them to.
Widgets can be alarm clocks, calculators, can tell you your WiFi signal strength, will fetch the latest stock quotes for your preferred symbols, and even give […]

Personal chef now ’serving’ Green Valley
Sandra Saltzer-Duzak is what she calls a “career changer.” From an art major and gallery owner in Boston, Mass., to a lawyer, to heading the Human Resources department for an assisted living community, Duzak has tried out many.
In the summer of 2001, Duzak and her husband Jim closed up his […]

This tool provides you with information on how well the hospitals in your area care for all their adult patients with certain medical conditions.
This information will help you compare the quality of care hospitals provide. Hospital Compare was created through the efforts of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) and organizations that […]

And now, it’s time for something completely different…
I drop by Kottke.org from time to time. I envy the fact that he was able to quit his day job and blog full time, supported by his readership.
The subject of tipping came up recently and he referred to the website, Bitter Waitress.com. While I tend to […]

Google Maps has been able to display both a Map and Satellite view. Now there’s more.
They’ve added a Hybrid view which combines the Map and Satelite view, so you can get a satellite image with street names. Sweet!

After three consecutive days with average dewpoints at 54° or higher, it’s official.
The dewpoints for last Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday were high enough, so the monsoon season officially started on Monday. Confusing? Yes it is, but I didn’t make up the rules.
We got a brief shower this afternoon and the temperature dropped to where […]