Last night I changed the batteries in the panel to our heating/ac system and didn’t know I had to reset it, so upon waking up this morning I noticed there was a chill in the air. When I checked the thermostat it read 62 degrees. It’s not that bad but explains the chill. Here’s a comment from Grandma Dix,
Oops!! My bad. I didn’t remember your anniversary, and Lori and I had a nice visit in the morning, but she didn’t remind me. Sorry! She knew I wasn,t thinking about anything else but the design I have to present tomorrow; therefore, nothing else gets done. Today I shall be putting the thing together and hope for the best. I wasn’t feeling all that well. so my very nice husband drove me down to the floral warehouse. There are enough flowers to make several arrangements. I love it, but I get very obsessive about it. Poor Don. Lori will remember. also. Anyway, Belated HAPPY ANNIVERSARY. w w wE LOVE YOU BOTH. CAN,T FIX IT. Remember when Don was fixing the arch and all of us were putting wisteria all over it–great fun and good memories.
Today is the final day of our big annual Spring pre sale at work. I’m already above goal but am trying to get as much revenue as I can to take pressure off other needed sales. Glad it’s over.
Here’s a good one for you, Colorado democrats are holding up pay raises for county sheriffs if they don’t go along and support the dems gun laws! Thankfully this has made the national news. Maybe that’ll stop this blatant illegal extortion. How about this, there’s a school district in the southeast showing 5th graders a video saying that Americans are responsible for the 9/11 tragedy because we took actions that other people in the World didn’t like! Rightly so, parents are furious. Even worse a school district in Alabama has told all school teachers they can have Easter celebrations but can’t refer to the Easter bunny as the “Easter” bunny. Instead they just have to call him the “bunny” so they don’t offend anyone who doesn’t believe in Easter. I just have one thing to say, if you don’t like it, get the f__k out of the country!
And how about our economy, no matter what you think, it’s pretty much screwed. This here sums it all up,
What remains are games of musical chairs, Ponzi schemes, frauds, swindles, stonewalls, ruses, ploys, scams, dodges, bluffs, subterfuges, QE martingales, interventions, rehypothecations, pretenses and other modes of evading or disguising reality. The reality is that there is not enough real wealth to go around, certainly not enough to cover the giant web of obligations that masquerades as ‘money.
You see, the games the Fed is playing are just bandaids and postponing the inevitable. We do not have the money to pay our bills yet we keep spending and spending thinking we can buy our way out of this mess with money we don’t have. In reality we are just digging ourselves or I should say our children, a deeper hole. Anyone that has kids takes this serious. Those that don’t usually say it’ll pass or it’s just a cycle or something to make themselves feel better. Sooner or later, the bill will come due.
And for those of you that point to the stock markets continual rise as a sign the economy is ok. You just don’t understand the system. To see why stock prices and hiring are not correlated, imagine yourself as the owner of a pizza shop. The economy has been bad, and people are buying less pizza, so you fire two of your cooks and reduce the number of pies you prepare. Suddenly, your cousin Ben (Bernanke) wins the lottery and decides to give you $10,000 for a piece of your business. Now that you have another 10 grand in the bank, and your business is worth a bit more, are you suddenly going to hire back the two cooks to make more pies that nobody will buy? Or will you just put the money in the bank and wait for when demand returns? The stock market exists to help companies raise capital. With most stocks near all time highs and US corporations holding record cash on their balance sheets, access to capital is not the problem. Lack of demand is the problem, and no amount of financial manipulation is going to change that. What’s worse, if you are that Pizza owner with too much cash and not enough patrons, you now have your crazy cousin Ben to contend with. It turns out Ben (and his boss) has never run a business and has some very naive ideas. Hopefully this helps you understand that the stock market really doesn’t mean much to your everyday life.
Ok enough school for the day, onto family stuff. This morning Ty and the whole family, go to the dermatologist to have a wart removed and I think I’ll have a couple of varicose veins shot up so they go away. After that I’m delivering some wine as I’m donating some to the ALS (Lou Gehrig) Society in remembrance of my buddy who died of it a few years ago. Then I’ll be wrapping up my work while I’m sure the kids will be tracing mud in from all the melting snow. Ty had his friend Jack spend the night again last night. Ty can play non stop 24 hours a day if you let him. Jag and I hit some balls (baseballs) and will do a bit more today. I think practice will be off tomorrow as it should be too muddy. We had a great dinner of salmon last night. I quit coffee and have been drinking green tea, the misses head seems to be getting better (thank God) and Lacey is still waking us up!
That’a about it. Easter, yes I said it, Easter is this weekend. Not sure what we’re doing. Have a great day, time to run as the good looking one just handed me a plate of scrambled eggs. Take care and God Bless.