Make Note of houseing data.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/37303800/ns/business-real_estate/

While the numbers looked good last month, it's clear that I'm not the only one that believes the market will fall again before truly improving. Last months numbers only showed what I explained earlier, which is: People who were going to buy in the next 12-18 months already purchased their homes so that they could take advantage of the tax credit. But now that those people are no longer in the market, house prices will fall again for a lack of buyers.

And when it does - we'll buy, new tax credit or not.

Flying made - uh - easy?

I'm into model airplanes. Not the little toy ones, but the ones that you actually put an engine on and fly into the air. No - not the kind you sit in, but the ones you control via a remote control. My older brother got me into RC airplanes many, many years ago and through the years I've had a few. I consider myself an experienced, but not exceptional pilot. I can fly a plane, I can do fun stuff, but I don't know any of the competition patterns or flight moves.

Yesterday I experienced something new. My plane's wing folded, right in flight. It's a sad thing, to lose a plane, but it's fun to push the limits, make the plane do things a little more extreme. Unfortuneatly, what I was doing was simply pulling out of a simple tail stand and fall.

We went out to the farm lands where there is a perfect paved road, and the breeze was just perfect. So I setup, started the enging and all was good.



After the wing fold:


My wife was filming, and even though she missed the actual fold of the wings on tape, the audio is very, very clear:



Now I have to find a new plane.

Alt-Enter : Excels new-line command within a single cell

I consider myself an Excel student. I've studied, I've learned, I've mastered. I've never, ever, met an excel problem I could not master. Sure, sometimes it takes hours, days - even weeks and sometimes lots more, but in the end, I find the way to do it and I do it.

For many years now, I've believe there was no way to do a 'new-line' within a single cell of Excel. In fact, just a few days ago my wife called asking me how to do it. My answer? Combine all the other columns into 2 cells and leave the one column as two different rows. Yes, I really did think that was the only way to do it.

Even at work, I've been working on a reporting function that is to be run through Excel for formatting and data extraction purposes, and there were times I needed to do a new-line within a single cell. My answer? Same as above. It was a mess and I hated doing it, but it worked and I believed there was no other way.

Those days are now behind me - forever. This new command: 'Alt-Enter' has now become melded to my brain - bonded with my knowledge, forever to know that if you want to make a new-line within a single cell of Excel, simply use 'Alt-Enter'.

I can't even begin to express my excitment to know, now, how to do this. Me and 'Alt-Enter' are now very, very good friends.