Arkansas Blog

16 pages of foreclosures in yesterday's The Moron News in NWA.

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The son-in-law of a friend is a home builder in Bentonville. Well, he WAS one. Hasn't built a house in almost three years. In July, he said that there were well over 6,500 unsold houses in Benton and Washington counties, alone --- many of them brand new and just sitting there waiting for buyers. The builders couldn't move 'em and were paying huge bucks in interest every month. He also said there were so many vacant residential building lots in the two counties that it will take eight or nine years to get 'em sold and off the books. Had hoped things might have improved by this time, but eLwood's report tells me that's not the case.

It is not just Arkansas, and it doesn't look promising for real improvement anytime soon.

Bad news for sure.

But, Arkansas B-Ball looks better...up 50-33 against Oklahoma in the first half.

Go, Hogs!!

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The real estate market is crap. Blago is an idiot. Huck (who cares).

I've got a real question: instant access to people we haven't talked to in years. Or cared about. Now, everyone Facebooks and accepts friends who we can't really even remember. Is it the "Sally Fields" complex (they like me they really like me!)? Or is it that we are more confident/mature in our older age that we are all anxious to show everyone--I made it out of that hellhole called "high school"?

I find myself torn between the two. The people who mercilessly made fun of me as a junior high student, I have chosen as "friends". Yet, I find myself questioning why. It is human nature to want to see what these people are like later in life, but it also dregs up the remains of well worn angst.

Additionally, I find that people who may have been on Facebook for 2 weeks suddenly have 200 "friends". I was happy with the people I talked to on a daily basis (a meager number, but people I actually chose with whom to converse).

300 friends?
400?
500?

Is this really a good thing? If we really wanted to talk to all of these people (or any of them), couldn't we have without making 6 degrees of separation that much closer to one?