What is going on here?

Eck!!!  Sorry all for not posting more regularly, damn life gets in the way too often.  Hopefully, I can be more attentive with this blog by trying to blog on a more regular basis.  Now, onto the real business at hand.

What is going on in this world?  I can't seem to figure it out.  I mean I understand that the economy is in the tank, the world is collapsing around us, and the republicans are already calling for President Obama's head.  What I don't get is what the heck is happening in my community?  Just over a couple of weeks ago only two houses in my neighborhood were for sale.  Now all of a sudden, we have six houses on the market in my neighborhood.  What is taking place here?  I can't put my finger on it.

I would have guessed that anyone in the Bush administration or party would have skipped town by now and I really don't think these families are in dire straights on their home mortgages.  I also suppose that maybe they think time is on their side and they might as well get their houses on the market and let them sit for a while in the hopes of selling sometime in the next year or two.  I give them mad props for trying to sell their homes during our current recession, but I haven't seen this many homes on the market in my neighborhood since the peak of the housing market about five years ago.

The other thing that I don't understand is that surprisingly there are people looking for homes in my neighborhood.  Almost every weekend we get more than our fair share of onlookers driving around to see the houses that are for sale.  Unfortunately, they are just looking, as none of the houses have moved off the market yet.

I just don't get it, I'm totally perplexed.

Bring out your dead!

Well, not really, but at least consider bringing back a dead blog.

When I started this blog, I didn't really think that others were blogging about Columbia or suburban life for that matter.  Boy was I wrong, within a couple of days I found a treasure trove of useful Columbia blogs.  I even stumbled upon the Embrace Hostility In Howard County blog.  I was excited and dejected when I found this blog, only because I was planning on blogging about the silly Choose Civility bumper magnets found in Howard County.  Then I found that the blog was closing shop and changing to Columbia Now.

I would like to plead and beg for the writer of the Embrace Hostility In Howard County blog to start it back up again.  We need some power, some force to fight all the "Choose Civility" individuals out there.  Bringing back this blog would really be the Civil thing to do.

If you choose not to bring it back, that's fine too.  I plan on incorporating some means to fight the power of Civility in future blog post.

Peace out Civility!!!

You heard it here last

Wegmans has been the talk of the HoCo blogger world for quite some time now.  Some of the bloggers are for the new Wegmans in Columbia and some are against it.  Whichever side you align yourself with, you can always turn to wordbones over at Tales Of Two Cities for the latest news on all things Wegmans.

Now I'm all for new stores coming into the area and I'm not picky as to whether or not its a "Mom & Pop" store or a "Big Box" store.  But if we are going to get a Wegmans in the area, we might as well do it right and allow them to sell alcohol (wine and beer).

Over the Thanksgiving holiday I was visiting family in Virginia and we happened to stop at a new Wegmans.  The sushi at the food court was standard fair and the shopping was okay, but the wine selection was top shelf.  I'm not a wine nut, but it was like a kid in a candy store.  The Wegmans' employee working in the department said that they had over 1,300 wines to choose from.  Hurray, a selection of wine, wine, and more wine.  They had a good beer selection as well.  No longer would you have to travel to Corridor (which isn't even in HoCo) to find this large a selection of wine.

We were able to get the Lords of Maryland to usher in slot machines into the state.  Why can't we get them to allow alcohol sales at grocery stores?  Anyone else with me?

What? When did this happen?

Spontaneously, almost overnight Columbia and Howard County has proven me wrong on the burbs being trendy, hip locations.

When I thought about this blog concept it didn't occur to me that other Columbia residents were blogging about the place we call home.  Then, to my surprise I found not one, but many blogs dedicated to Columbia/Howard County.  Not only did I find other blogs, but I found that the gods of suburbia have taken it upon themselves to make Columbia/Howard County a cool, trendy, and hip place to reside.  No longer can it be referred as Howard County, from this day forward it will take on the name HoCo, like the trendy hip locations in Baltimore that seem to sprout up on a daily basis.

Now, where was I when this took place, how come I wasn't called?  Oh, yeah, I know, I guess I'm not hip and trendy.  Oh well, go figure, I decide to write about boring suburban life and within hours my idea is shot to hell by the now trendy HoCo.

Take a look at all the HoCo/Columbia blogs out there at:

HoCoBlogs

My personnel favorites are:

Tales of Two Cities

HowChow

Strobist

Ugh, I hate being the last to know about anything!!!!