Coaching Soccer, Community, Real Estate
One reason I'm a realtor: I can coach soccer. A photo posted by Jim Duncan (@jimduncan) on Sep 11, 2014 at 1:55pm PDT Soccer starts again. Finally. Thanks to snow and rain, the start of this year’s soccer season has been delayed by three…
Coaching Soccer This Spring. Again.
Next Wednesday my spring life changes again. My real estate business will shut down from three o'clock to six o'clock. And Saturdays' schedules will be non-negotiably altered. Soccer season for the little one begins anew. Coaching U-8 soccer is a thrilling, exhausting, rewarding, exhausting, trying,…
A Shift in Charlottesville Soccer
Update 16 July 2010: Charlottesville's getting an indoor turf field ... at the Ice Park. Plans are to offer an ice rink for six months of the year, from October through March, and a turf field for the remainder of the year. Visitors to the…
Where to Watch the World Cup in Charlottesville – 2010
I love soccer. I play it, I coach it, I watch it. I live within walking distance of a soccer field. Now I'm getting ready for soccer nirvana/overload. Charlottesville is a good soccer town; we're privileged to have outstanding soccer teams to watch - UVA…
Charlottesville Area Needs More Sports Fields
For soccer, baseball, softball, lacrosse, and God knows what other sports use the fields. At one point last year when I was coaching soccer, before daylight savings time expanded the amount of daylight available, there were four teams practicing on one field - each got…
Soccer schedules, local elections and affordability – 08-15-2007
Affordable housing is a crisis, but is it reasonable for government to mandate prices? Isn't that some level of "price-fixing"? ... noted that the city's goal is to have 15 percent of units in a project be reserved at affordable rates, or a commensurate amount…
New soccer park in Charlottesville?
The Soccer Organization of Charlottesville is seeking to build, and build big near its current facility on Polo Grounds Road. The project proposal consists of an outdoor, lit, synthetic surface, full-size soccer field; a small, indoor soccer field with synthetic surface; two mini-soccer fields suitable…
The little things matter
Like the pinky. Light blogging ahead as typing with a broken pinky is might painful. If only I could email my doctor and ask for an X-ray and go from there. Interesting read at the WSJ about the health-care industry (permanent link) (and real estate…
Links for 3 January 2007
Gorgeous pictures of soccer fields (HT: growabrain) Too many Realtors Time-based Zoning takes a blow in Greene Vista is going to jumpstart blogs and RSS. Or maybe sales of Apple products. How to fight. Software for starving students - nice. I am currently using Neo…
Friday links 11-14-2006
George Washington's Thanksgiving Proclamation No Cake! What a sad testament on the American Way. Get ready for some foreclosures - Subprime loans doing badly. I would love to see numbers on what percentage of loans written in the past 3 years in the Central Virginia…