Well…I know I’m late and didn’t have any topics for yesterday but I had a few things to do and made a trip out to GH to hang with M for a while…it was good to see him and have a chance to get out of this place for a while….made the turkey soup and it came out good again…not much to do today..might be meeting up with K later to have a couple but that is about it…I’m going to go get a cup of coffee and come back later….after I read the paper…and the Sunday one is huge so it will be a while…

That didn’t take as long as I expected…the 12 pound newspaper had about 11 1/2 pounds of ads and nonsense so I’m back to continue…hmmmm….just when I was starting to have hope that the recovery was translating into hiring, the unemployment rate goes up…and the seesaw ride that has been my life heads back down again…and I am tired of listening to the “experts” talk that the reason is that the unemployed need more education to handle the new jobs that are being created…so, that means that I should go out and get a 5th degree? I have many friends that are successful with no degrees and the 4 that I have are only paper that doesn’t magically make me more talented….it’s what I have been saying to people that I talk to…that age trumps everything…and you can see this in the stories that are beginning to surface about the “retraining” that people have undergone just to find that they’ve been lied to and there are still no jobs for anyone over 40….I know, this sound a little bitter but wouldn’t anyone be when they have followed the rules and did more than necessary to make themselves valuable just to have the economy and business tell them that you are no longer needed when you still have something to give…more later…I promise I’ll have topics for later this morning…but, as you can tell, I’m in a valley right now…maybe some old movies will help…

Oh, go out and have a drink today…it’s the anniversary of the repeal of prohibition….