{"id":12885,"date":"2010-10-20T13:15:08","date_gmt":"2010-10-20T20:15:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/?p=12885"},"modified":"2010-10-20T19:50:14","modified_gmt":"2010-10-21T02:50:14","slug":"waiting-for-higgs-boson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/12885\/waiting-for-higgs-boson\/","title":{"rendered":"Waiting for Higgs Boson"},"content":{"rendered":"

Dark matter can be a bitch.\u00a0\u00a0And I mean this in the politest of\u00a0ways; a mere postmodern posing\u00a0of the\u00a0generational Petro\/Girard \u00a0family tenet, ‘in a hundred years it will all be over.’<\/em>\u00a0 Anything after that, please, draw your own conclusions.<\/p>\n

I’m speaking as a\u00a0 self-actualized moving part of an economic algorithm (and every time I use this word I must ask, ‘is this particular rithm<\/em> an Al Gore <\/em>\u00a0invention?’) that I was born into—with about the same amount of choice I had in the decision whether or not to crawl from my mother’s womb (yes, I was a breech birth baby) several decades earlier—the end result of a totally nother<\/em> flawed rhythm method.\u00a0 I have become cyber-morphed\u00a0with the last four digits of my social security number, a randomly assigned\u00a0superfecta I’ve lately grown to loathe…<\/p>\n

“Excuse me. What was your name again?” I ask the voice who finally takes my call.<\/p>\n

This was\u00a0my second<\/em> twenty-two minutes on HOLD<\/em> in the Michael Bolton Greatest Hits<\/em> audio loop queue of the American Express Blue Card Department. By this point I was looking around my office for a blunt object to off myself with. (Excuse the non-participial modifiers and occasional tense shifts\u00a0as I’m a\u00a0bit rusty at\u00a0posting any thought that requires more than 140 characters these days.)<\/p>\n

“It is Jess-ie<\/em>, Mister Petro,” \u00a0the voice answers.<\/p>\n

I instantly think of my deceased\u00a0father,\u00a0a\u00a0passing memory still fresh in my mind; the other Mister Petro, forever with a faint whiff of expensive cologne and a seemingly wise and vast financial demeanor. (And that<\/em> Mister Petro\u00a0survived a real<\/em> economic Depression.)<\/p>\n

“Thanks you very much today,”\u00a0 the odd voice, not from this hemisphere, adds on cue.\u00a0\u00a0“How\u00a0 may I assist you?”<\/p>\n

“Hmmm. You don’t sound like a Jessie,” I say, looking to\u00a0cyber-bully an over-matched, out-sourced CSR.<\/p>\n

“Thanks you very much, Mister Petro.”<\/p>\n

I swim back in space and think of my father\u00a0and me playing\u00a0 golf under the lights back in old Charlotte, many years earlier; that little\u00a0Par 3\u00a0course on a swampy\u00a0lake \u00a0just off Independence Boulevard. At once\u00a0I\u00a0 smell the honeysuckle fragrance and imagine the chatter of\u00a0 the late night crickets…I recall the real<\/em> Mister Petro as a much nobler man than I find myself Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Dark matter can be a bitch.\u00a0\u00a0And I mean this in the politest of\u00a0ways; a mere postmodern posing\u00a0of the\u00a0generational Petro\/Girard \u00a0family tenet, ‘in a hundred years it will all be over.’\u00a0 Anything after that, please, draw your own conclusions. I’m speaking as a\u00a0 self-actualized moving part of an economic algorithm (and every time I use this […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-12885","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"hentry","6":"category-real-estate","8":"no-featured-image"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":463,"url":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/463\/blogoff-post-86-ask-the-broker-what-does-pre-qualification-mean\/","url_meta":{"origin":12885,"position":0},"title":"Blogoff Post #86: Ask the Broker: What does pre-qualification mean…?","author":"Greg Swann","date":"September 26, 2006","format":false,"excerpt":"This is a question I'm hearing every day right now:What does pre-qualification mean?Why am I hearing that question? 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