Home & relaxing at the beach with great weather and no trips planned in the near future. Got back from a cold week in Rochester, NY with 3 days of fun meetings at Kodak. Hooked up with two friends from my MBA days, one from Penn St and another from Italy. Had two great dinners and even some surprisingly good wines from the finger lakes region of NY. Toured the incredibily remodeled house of my friend, Mark Defilice, who bought a 3 bd/2 ba with basement, attic for $120k. The real estate market is almost completely opposite of SD, where I'm confronted with condos in LJ going for $1M. Did I forget to mention it was low 20's and snowing on my first day there? I left just in time to enjoy the 80+ degree weather in SD for the weekend. But now I'm doing my taxes and trying to figure out what type of real estate I can afford since everything has gone up 300% in the past 5 years. So you better start planning a LJ run soon, cuz even though I've said this for the past 3 years, THIS YEAR I'M BUYING SOMETHING and it won't be in LJ or near the beach.