{"id":9192,"date":"2009-07-16T21:47:25","date_gmt":"2009-07-17T04:47:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/?p=9192"},"modified":"2009-07-17T07:32:21","modified_gmt":"2009-07-17T14:32:21","slug":"for-those-of-you-following-the-lurid-drama-of-our-lives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/9192\/for-those-of-you-following-the-lurid-drama-of-our-lives\/","title":{"rendered":"For those of you following the lurid drama of our lives…"},"content":{"rendered":"

We bought our house out of hock today<\/a>. All it took was a tiny little pawn ticket and a great big check. Our small feat of redemption was actually paid for by June’s receipts, but I got myself into this mess by surfing the payables, and I got myself out the same way. We retired the outstanding debt eleven days early, and it’s been a while since we’ve been that early on anything.<\/p>\n

That notwithstanding, we are very far from being out of debt. But June was great, July is good, and August and September promise to be two of our best months ever. If the fourth quarter lives up to its promise, 2009 could end up being our best year so far. By this time next year, we could owe nothing but the mortgage — which is good, because our credit will take a while to recover from these past three years.<\/p>\n

There is none of this that is anybody’s business, actually — except that people choose to affect to make my business their own because of who I am and how I behave. That’s fine, even if it sometimes seems to me to be simultaneously voyeuristic and masturbatory. I have a job that pays pretty well when it pays anything at all. When we got slow three years ago, we made a very big bet on internet marketing, which we were already pretty good at back then. By now we kill, and we’re getting better by leaps and bounds every single day. If you think our financial troubles prove our marketing ideas wrong — you just keep thinking that way. By the time you understand what it is we’re doing, we will have leapt into a completely different orbit.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile: For all the good-hearted folks who wished us well in all of this: Thank you. I’d rather not have done this in public, but I couldn’t have picked a nicer bunch of people to do it with.<\/p>\n

Now switch off this insipid soap opera and go do something productive with your life!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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