We are back from vacation from the San Diego beaches this weekend…right back into our routines.  Me, I like Open Mics (performing live music with other performers)…there is one at The Spot (former Kings Head) in downtown on Sunday evenings, others everywhere (join veryopenmic.com to see).  My sons (and me sometimes) love Open Gyms (for basketball of course) you can find them at the community center (on Mon and Wed afternoons), or at Saratoga High on Tuesdays and Thurdays (send me email I’ll get you on the mail list)…or of course pick up games are at Campbell Park all the time. And then for Kelly, of course, Open Houses.

Well, we all report that everything is sparse right now - must be the August midlums.  The entertainment biz is slow, people must still be at the beach…not many ballers right…and very few people are going to Open Houses.  Kelly reports her and her colleagues have had very few people looking around to buy.  My thoughts, fear, uncertainty and doubt must be playing a factor, I mean there is nothing but bad news in Real Estate these days.  But I am old enough to remember several times in life where I wish I bought on the low, when things were apprantly bad…and kicked myself years later for not doing it.  But that’s speculation…people buy homes to live in, as Kelly keeps telling me, and nothing should keep you from buying if you can afford it and its a place you want to live in for a long time.  Long term thinkers you can’t lose…sort term speculators?  Its a gamble…Long term speculators (like me) hmmmm….buy low - sell high, isn’t that what grandpa always said?  “How do you know its low ?” I asked Grandpa, and he said “When everyone agrees things are bad.”