Wonder what today’s title means? Can anyone guess? It’s the exchange rate of the euro to the dollar. That means it takes $1.38 to buy 1 euro. Now why is this important, well it’s important because it’s a way to measure the world economy and it directly affects things we buy and sell daily and most importantly, how much I have to pay for my wine. The neat thing is that it hasn’t been this low for a long time. Less than 90 days ago it was approaching $1.50. The reason it’s so low is that the crisis in Europe, particularly Greece is even worse than here. The reason we should be worried is that what’s happening in Greece is a preview of what we’re headed for unless we make some dramatic changes. There’s lot of talk on the idiot box about raising the debt ceiling. The repub’s want to limit anymore borrowing why the dems want to borrow more money against ours and our children’s future. Now wherever you stand on this, it’s a bad situation. It’s so bad the President feels the need to get on tv almost every other day to try to convince us to allow him to keep spending on the nations credit card which has already gone passed its limit. (wish I could do that, no wait, glad I can’t!) In my opinion, most if not all of his motivation is political as he’s starting to lose his base and he knows he’ll never get re-elected if he stops giving all these handouts to all the special interest groups. So, make some tough choices now and make some real painful cuts to real people, or keep putting it off. Good news is the american people in a CBS poll yesterday, voted 69% to 28% (with 3% not voting) NOT to raise the debt limit and to stop spending money we don’t have. This surprised me as I don’t have much faith in the “regular guy” understanding what’s going on. When you’re bombarded by tv ads saying they’re kicking grandma out of the nursing home if we make cuts, most people vote to keep spending. I think it’s getting so bad that even people who don’t follow the world economy are starting to understand we cannot continue to spend money we don’t have. Just my 2 cents, you all have to make up your own mind which way to go, the point is, sooner or later, someone (that’s us) are going to have to pay for all this spending by Washington or in other words, pay the bill. I wonder if the politicians in Washington would vote for all the spending they do if they had to personally write a check each time they vote to spend more money we don’t have, hmmmmmm.
Ok, more heavy rain showers today, possibly earlier they say. Mom works today until 5pm as she switched yesterday with Miss Carrie so she could spend the day with Kristina. They had a good lunch and then did a little shopping. We had a nice dinner with Paolo and Kristina and they’re off to Aspen at 6am this morning returning to Denver Thursday night. We’ll see them again Friday early evening before they fly off to Vegas for a few days and then continue their trip around the U.S. promoting his wine. Uncle T and Aunt B (or maybe just Uncle T as I think Aunt B might have been working) hosted the oldest boy for a while and then both boys when the younger one joined the party. The boys sure love visiting them. We (Uncle T, Aunt Robi and I) never had and Aunts or Uncles close enough to go hang out with, we’re really happy our boys do. Today I’m boxing a bunch of wine and then Uncle T is going to watch them for a quick hour while I run to Fed Ex. I was hoping to get this done by 10:30 but now it seems it’ll be closer to 12:30 as I have some unexpected calls, hope Uncle T is around or else I’ll just take them (the boys) with me.
The next few days are a whirlwind. We have swimming every morning, football tomorrow night and we (the misses and I) have to show up at a birthday party downtown for at least an appearance. Then Mom has another company wide meeting at 9:45pm Thursday (she had one at 6:15am yesterday) and on Friday she’s spending the day with Kristina again and then we all hook up for dinner before they fly out at 9:30pm. On Saturday we have a bowling party with our friends (the judge/my former lawyer, and his wife, and Jeff and Tina) who we get together with every three months or so. After bowling (Jeff bought some certificate at a charity auction) we’re all going to La Loma for dinner. I think the boys are spending the night with Uncle T and Aunt B. They’re both super excited! We’re wondering if a kid can overdose on candy! We’ll let you know Sunday morning. So it looks like Wyoming and horseback riding this weekend is out, bummer.
Mom’s out of the shower and the oldest ones slowly getting up while the little guy is playing a game next to me on the laptop. He gets up much earlier than his older brother. They’re both little angels in the morning, hugging each other on the couch and conversing like brothers do about their upcoming day. Of course later in the day, usually after some sugar, they’re involved in some battle over something that means nothing like who’s using the bathroom first or who’s sitting where. Oh well, it’s just what brothers do, at least we know they really care and love each other as we see it every morning. We need to go up and see my Mom, I spoke with her yesterday and she seems well but we’re about due for a visit. I’m still waiting for some more macaroni and pea salad!
I guess it’s time to run as I should start boxing up some vino before my cell starts ringing, maybe I can get a jump on the whole thing. It’s still real green and humid around here, more than I can ever remember. Hope everyone is doing well and enjoying life, it’s short enough as it is so get out there and do something new while you can, get crazy. Here’s a quote for the day, enjoy and God Bless,
“Never be afraid to trust an unknown future to a known God.”