Jack Mossman's Lodi Blog

  Small business owners are usually more concerned about their business than they may be in running the business.  The passion and excitement of business ownership does not usually extend to the nuts and bolts of “managing the business.”  Real Estate agents are small business owners, and as indi...

Sometimes the wisdom of the ancients seems to make sense.  At other times it may seem a little far fetched.  In the latter case, it may be that we try and catch meaning a little too literally.  Perhaps we might  be better served to look for wisdom in the illustration rather than the words. I rec...

This is a new experience for me … the season of winter … is getting to me!  To be fair, I don’t usually even notice winter.  It’s not that there are not changes in the weather … it sometimes just is plain cold.  It’s not that am avoiding looking at the calendar.  Whatever  ... I noticed the othe...

    What do you do when your Bluetooth won’t disconnect? I’m pretty sure that I’m not the only person on the face of the planet who has been talking with a hands free device and suddenly the happy blue flashing goes solid!  I couldn’t turn it off and the phone would not route calls to the hand se...

  So what do you do when the art work is so small that you can’t read what you want people to see? Answer:  Expand your technological applications: Recently I posted a bit about one of my favorite restaurants in Lodi.  I included some of their “art” and a pictures of one of the dishes I like bes...

  New Homes are still selling in Lodi or San Joaquin County, California: 1/9/11 New homes sales were off overall in San Joaquin despite a much higher traffic count.   The new year also produced some “updates” of year end numbers reducing overall sales counts. The Financial News produced by the B...

They are living the words …. while others are writing about them   So exactly who is the more “distressed” homeowner – one contemplating a short sale or one facing a foreclosure? It’s interesting that this “housing crisis” has added several new words to our ordinary lexicon – but often people thi...

  The rainy season is upon us and for those of us living in the Delta areas of the Central Valley in California we should be paying particular attention to some of our car-cleanliness habits.  Often the mud and grime of a rainy road isn’t really “stuck” on our vehicles and it’s a real easy thing...

The Grape Festival in Lodi California is a summer event.  But…the activities at the vineyards which produce the fruit that is feted at the festival … aren’t just a summer event!  It’s pretty much a year-round thing. On the western wall of the festival hall is a mural that depicts the entire year...

  Cleaning up some of the computer files I have all over my “network” I ran across the thousands of pictures I’ve taken since getting really involved with ActiveRain early last summer.  I confess, that prior to that time, I’ve never been much of a picture taker.  Mostly I am an experience memory...