{"id":7683,"date":"2009-04-05T18:12:20","date_gmt":"2009-04-06T01:12:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/?p=7683"},"modified":"2009-04-05T20:34:58","modified_gmt":"2009-04-06T03:34:58","slug":"end-of-daze","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/7683\/end-of-daze\/","title":{"rendered":"End of Daze"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"2542_54709363669_669028669_1333750_5640720_s2\" A<\/strong>s winters go, the current capricious season has been as tolerable as any I’ve experienced sober since being administratively abandoned here 14 years ago against my will.\u00a0 So what if I left a smarmy sales vice president waiting (with 45 life insurance presentation kits and a slide projector) in Baggage Claim 7 at O’ Hare International for an ‘inexcusable amount of hours’ on a cold March morning\u00a0 back in 1990-whatever.\u00a0 Big whoop.<\/em> I figure the suited puppet is corporate milk toast by now anyway so I have\u00a0 no regrets in that regard. A year and a half later I had my real estate license and thirty days after that, I sold my first multi-unit building for condo conversion. ‘God forbid’\u00a0 the ass clown would ever think to spring for a cab. Thinking back on it now, that’s what he\u00a0 most likely had to do.\u00a0 I just don’t recall it being mentioned in my Fed Exed severance package that so quickly followed.<\/p>\n

And what I’ve concluded since that liberating (if not sentimental) six-figure parting of\u00a0 the ways is this: If ever there was a super-imposed bordered, semi-landlocked example of urban, bi-polar personality disorder just waiting to spit in the face of cabin fever, it exists in\u00a0 my fair city, Chicago, between the months of November and April, pick a year.\u00a0 And, as is the case of\u00a0 so many frost-bound salesmen who have come and gone before me, my own personal demons continue to appear in a variety of veneers (with mere weather and\u00a0 spirited drink being the least seductive of my temptresses anymore).<\/p>\n

My final hours in corporate America began to un-tick in the following way one blustery weekend a millennium or so ago. I had been sitting on the same Viagra Triangle bar stool since Saturday morning when Last Call was finally announced.\u00a0 I allegedly paid another unwilling patron to help me locate my car and drive me home. When I hit the pillow and cold crashed on the bed hours later it was the break of daylight the following Sunday. I needed to be out the door in exactly 24 hours Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

As winters go, the current capricious season has been as tolerable as any I’ve experienced sober since being administratively abandoned here 14 years ago against my will.\u00a0 So what if I left a smarmy sales vice president waiting (with 45 life insurance presentation kits and a slide projector) in Baggage Claim 7 at O’ Hare […]<\/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":[4,29,5],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-7683","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"hentry","6":"category-disintermediation","7":"category-group-therapy","8":"category-real-estate","10":"no-featured-image"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":679,"url":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/679\/content-piracy-on-the-renet\/","url_meta":{"origin":7683,"position":0},"title":"Content piracy on the RE.net . . .","author":"Greg Swann","date":"November 25, 2006","format":false,"excerpt":"An aggregator weblog called Real Estate Chatter is resyndicating the feeds of these 25 real estate weblogs:Altos Research Real Estate InsightsAppraisal ScoopCarnival of Real EstateMike's Corner Web 2.0 For Real Estate ProsNAR in the Newsrealestate.com.au News & ViewsOverseas Property Blog :: guide to international real estate investmentPressReal.comSeattle's Rain City Real\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Blogging"","block_context":{"text":"Blogging","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/category\/blogging\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":2830,"url":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/2830\/while-the-national-real-estate-market-is-soft-google-pay-per-click-real-estate-advertising-still-going-strong\/","url_meta":{"origin":7683,"position":1},"title":"While The National Real Estate Market Is Soft – Google Pay-Per-Click Real Estate Advertising Still Going Strong","author":"Doug Quance","date":"March 24, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"Is Your Online Marketing Costing You Too Much? 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