{"id":994,"date":"2007-02-05T12:04:24","date_gmt":"2007-02-05T19:04:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/?p=994"},"modified":"2007-02-05T12:05:28","modified_gmt":"2007-02-05T19:05:28","slug":"the-sporting-life-random-musings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/994\/the-sporting-life-random-musings\/","title":{"rendered":"The Sporting Life &#8211; Random Musings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Perhaps I&#8217;m just a bad sport. Since that fateful weekend when the Chargers bit the big one, I have checked out of the postseason excitement. For me, unless I have a favorite team in contention, Super Sunday strikes me as a New Years Eve redux &#8211; Ready, set, everyone manufacture fun.<\/p>\n<p>Yesterday afternoon, Steve (my partner in crime, business and otherwise) was one funny commercial short of dividing the marital assets. With both daughters off to Superbowl parties of their own, I too had abandoned him. I spent much of the first half judging <a href=\"http:\/\/www.carnivalofrealestate.com\/\">Carnival<\/a> entries, mapping improvements to our website, staring into space while I mentally strategized my impending world domination, and figuring out just how I am going to pay our first quarter taxes. These were the things that weighed most heavily on me as Prince hit the stage, while Steve was most concerned with the party atmosphere (or lack thereof).<\/p>\n<p>Granted, my husband would watch any Pop Warner match-up with Superbowl-like enthusiasm assuming it was televised and there was the possibility of guacamole. That is largely a guy thing. I, on the other hand, need to feel I have a stake in the outcome. Steve is a highly social animal; outside of work, I am not. As a team, this provides balance. An an individual, balance is something I only dream about.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/?p=991\">Greg alluded to it<\/a> &#8211; It&#8217;s the geek gene. I wasn&#8217;t born with it (none of us were), but I was born with the inclination. Combine the geek gene with a career in real estate, and you have the perfect storm for social alienation. Being the one in the relationship that is geek-inclined, the business of the business, the IT duties, the technology tasks fall squarely in my lap. But, mostly, I love my work, and being that my work is a seven-days-a-week proposition, the lines between work and hobby blur.<\/p>\n<p>For those agents that reach Russell Shaw status, divorcing oneself from the job may come more easily. Yet, I suspect even Russell has found himself drifting off toward business plan thoughts during a half-time show or two. I submit <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/994\/the-sporting-life-random-musings\/#more-994\" class=\"more-link\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Perhaps I&#8217;m just a bad sport. Since that fateful weekend when the Chargers bit the big one, I have checked out of the postseason excitement. For me, unless I have a favorite team in contention, Super Sunday strikes me as a New Years Eve redux &#8211; Ready, set, everyone manufacture fun. Yesterday afternoon, Steve (my [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"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":[3,2,5],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-994","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"hentry","6":"category-blogging","7":"category-general","8":"category-real-estate","10":"no-featured-image"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":14982,"url":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/14982\/thank-different\/","url_meta":{"origin":994,"position":0},"title":"Thank different&#8230;","author":"Greg Swann","date":"August 25, 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"Good Jobs reading: What we can learn from Steve Jobs\u2026 by Eric Blackwell here at BloodhoundBlog \"Capitalism makes better people \u2014 and you are living proof\" -- me at Splendorquest.com Steve Job's most inspriational quotations Vodkapundit: Steve Jobs: A Legacy Andy Kessler: How Steve Jobs Changed The World The Amazing\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Egoism in Action&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Egoism in Action","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/category\/egoism-in-action\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":1485,"url":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/1485\/steve-jobs-at-all-things-digital-what-people-want-is-the-real-internet-on-their-phone\/","url_meta":{"origin":994,"position":1},"title":"Steve Jobs at All Things Digital: What people want is the real internet on their phone","author":"Greg Swann","date":"May 30, 2007","format":false,"excerpt":"Stay with it to the end. The last line is a killer. More: Steve Jobs and Bill Gates together on the same stage. 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Thank you. I'm in your debt forever.","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Egoism in Action&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Egoism in Action","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/category\/egoism-in-action\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":2213,"url":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/2213\/dear-billion-dollar-agent\/","url_meta":{"origin":994,"position":4},"title":"Dear Billion Dollar Agent,","author":"Russell Shaw","date":"November 12, 2007","format":false,"excerpt":"Yes, that is exactly the salutation Steve Kantor used to write to me. Steve is offering a free copy of the book he is about to release to anyone who will complete a short survey. Here is the link to that survey. 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