Well, here it is... Sunday, the first of 8 consecutive days off. Vacation. People have asked me what I'm going to be doing, plans for anything special, and the answer is "not really." Really, this is a vacation from work. I don't know how, but for some reason the notion has evolved that 'taking vacation' means going somewhere and spending lots of money. Not for me. My definition is solely based on the concept of getting paid to not have to go to work; to be able to do things I find enjoyable without the constraints of a work schedule.
A couple of things about last evening. When I got home from work I thought I might stream a little of the Olympics... right. I clicked on the NBC Sports link and got to watch 5 commercials in a row... that's not good. There was also a small box in the right hand corner of the my screen: "verify now." Since I pay for NBC Sports Gold, I figured I'd verify. Well, it seems that doesn't do it. Since I don't have FIOS cable I would need to purchase an NBC Sports Package if I wanted to stream the events from Pyongyang. Sorry. Guess I'm not going to be streaming the Olympics.
Then later, when I laid down to go to sleep... in the dark... the dogs jumped up on the bed as usual. Normally they find a comfortable spot and lay down... not last night. They seemed restless. Lying there, with the glow of the nightlight to dim to see anything but shadows, something wet landed on my face, right on my nose and mouth. It was furry, so I pulled it off and turned on the light. Big Seig had dropped his soggy, beaver... and it had landed... on my face. Believe me, I can't think of anything worse then to have a wet, soggy beaver on my face. So I threw it on the floor and turned the light off, and eventually he laid down too.
Since it's a drizzly, rainy morning, I think I'll go back to bed and take a bit of a nap. The dogs are already there... and the beaver is no where to be seen.
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Sunday, February 11, 2018
Friday, February 9, 2018
Another Nail in the Coffin
Friday morning... and I'm off today. The dogs let me sleep in until 0530 - wow! but then they started jumping around on the bed - that was 180 pounds plus of a canine 'good morning.'
I had a $5200 carpet sale go through yesterday from a customer who could easily afford the expense, his shiny, black wingtips sang of 'money.'
Also, measurements came back for a customer and his wife who are buying blinds - so I designed their blinds... basic price came to a little over $2200 for basic blinds. He hyphenates his last name, which seemed odd for a man, so I Google'd him, evidently he's a prominent bankruptcy attorney so I'm betting they gussy up those blinds a bit.
Since I was up this AM I started watching the opening ceremonies from Pyeongchang. All of a sudden the stream stopped and I received a message asking me to verify my cable company - I don't have a cable company which ended the 'live stream' from NBC Sports. My first thought was that this was the result of the Idiot Jerk, and the Republicans, trying to eliminate Net Neutrality; where you need to have a 'service provider' to use the Internet. I have FIOS, but I don't have cable. And I'm pretty sure that whole Net Neutrality thing is locked up in the courts. So this was most likely NBC Sports being stupid.
And what about Wall Street yesterday... oooohhh. Now it seems as though there are those who have decided that this is a... market correction. I believe are defined by losses up to and including 10%. However, if the Market continues to drop - then this is something other than a 'correction.' Problems abound. The government is going to have to borrow $1 Trillion to pay for that wonderful Republican Tax Cut. Lower unemployment leads to higher prices and inflation, which means we need a certain level of unemployment; it also leads to interest rates going up.
And, unfortunately for the majority of Americans, we have a numb nut in the White House, a Jerk who took credit for the Stock Market going up, who now has to deal with the fact that every point the Dow drops means another nail in the Republican Coffin.
I had a $5200 carpet sale go through yesterday from a customer who could easily afford the expense, his shiny, black wingtips sang of 'money.'
Also, measurements came back for a customer and his wife who are buying blinds - so I designed their blinds... basic price came to a little over $2200 for basic blinds. He hyphenates his last name, which seemed odd for a man, so I Google'd him, evidently he's a prominent bankruptcy attorney so I'm betting they gussy up those blinds a bit.
Since I was up this AM I started watching the opening ceremonies from Pyeongchang. All of a sudden the stream stopped and I received a message asking me to verify my cable company - I don't have a cable company which ended the 'live stream' from NBC Sports. My first thought was that this was the result of the Idiot Jerk, and the Republicans, trying to eliminate Net Neutrality; where you need to have a 'service provider' to use the Internet. I have FIOS, but I don't have cable. And I'm pretty sure that whole Net Neutrality thing is locked up in the courts. So this was most likely NBC Sports being stupid.
And what about Wall Street yesterday... oooohhh. Now it seems as though there are those who have decided that this is a... market correction. I believe are defined by losses up to and including 10%. However, if the Market continues to drop - then this is something other than a 'correction.' Problems abound. The government is going to have to borrow $1 Trillion to pay for that wonderful Republican Tax Cut. Lower unemployment leads to higher prices and inflation, which means we need a certain level of unemployment; it also leads to interest rates going up.
And, unfortunately for the majority of Americans, we have a numb nut in the White House, a Jerk who took credit for the Stock Market going up, who now has to deal with the fact that every point the Dow drops means another nail in the Republican Coffin.
I bet there will be dancing at this wake.
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