The Life and Times of Mike Avila (the guy to the left)
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Whew! Happy 46th birthday to me. This seems as good a time as any to add my insignificant 2˘ worth of diatribe to the internet. More structure will come to this -- as I get my life organized, I guess. Happy reading!

• 6/21/10
  ... and so I placed an ad for an open house with the local newspaper. In the ad I stated, "walk to the park from this house" and the ad got shot down due to ADA guidelines -- this ad discriminates against people who can't walk. So a few days later I got an email from Sen Evan Bayh wishing me a Happy Father's Day. I replied to the email, in the interest of being ADA-compliant, doesn't his email discriminate against sterile men? This is serious. We need to address this discrimination. It's pervasive. Offensive. Ugly. Unneeded. We need to end it NOW!
• 6/20/10
  Overdue by quite a few weeks now, this rant is a warning against anyone wanting to do business with Old National Bank, aka ONB. They are a 'new math' kind of lender, and they believe 3 minus 1 equals 3. And if you don't agree with that then they won't do business with you. I have the emails to prove it. Beware ONB aka Old National Bank!
• 2/19/10
  A Professional Rant. Háven't ranted in a while, so here's a new one -- ZipForms, the company that provides the template forms for REALTOR® communities, has gone and turned a perfectly good product into a Frankenstein-like creation.
• 6/3/09
  Fun with the County Assessor! Out of sight but not out of mind.
• 6/3/09
  Fun with Palm Centro (updated). Funny thing about the Palm Centro -- its speaker will just stop working. I've had that happen on three of four Centros I own. But not to worry -- visit this link for the fix!.
• 1/26/09
  Fun in Florida! Thanks, Jorge, we had a blast down there, really loved it. We're looking forward to our next trip!
• 12/20/08
  Stupid TV Commercials. Need I say more?
• 12/11/08
  Fun with Palm Centro. How can anyone say no to getting this phone for free? I couldn't, so now we have four Palm Centros in the house, one for each family member.
• 11/6/08
  Fun with Comcast. Seriously, just how long did you think it would take to get a Comcast entry onto my web site?
• 9/23/08
  Fun with Fedex. Shouldn't accurate and current mapping be a staple of any delivery company?
• 7/25/08
  Fun with government. For someone who leads a private life, I foresee this section becoming quite the tome. One can pray there's less to say here than, say, the 'family vacations' section. We'll see.