Posted by
Brian Peters on Wednesday, August 15, 2007 9:19:33 PM
Sorry folks, it's been one of them weeks. You know, when Monday is a 'Monday' and it just keeps going throughout the week. So my time has not been well spent enlightening you with witless and wisdomlessness, that I"ll leave to the Democrat candidates. Nope my dear reader, you, the one person who is probably awake at one thirty a.m. and can't sleep and needs something dire to enduce sleep....welcome to my blog, sure fire cure for insomnia, careful you head doesn't crash down upon your keyboard.
Yeap, lost out on a good job opportunity this week by giving of myself to the lousy company I am currently employed by. Had a meeting for a second interview on Monday morning and guess what....everyone else called out 'sick' Monday morning except yours truely, and being the 'lead' - which terms allows my company to not have to pay me more by calling me a supervisor...had to man the battle stations until a second shifter arrived early. Made the calls in the morning and had a chance for an interview at one p.m. Flew downtown (but really officer, I was doing the speed limit) and waited for an half hour which was fine by me. The look on the decision maker told me a lot, but I met with most of the rest of 'the management team', had a nice chat, showed me around, that was a sweet office I would have had. The letter arrived yesterday with Monday''s post mark on it!! Yep, that's what I thought too. Thank you, good luck, blah blah blah.
A thought crossed my mind today while I was outside taking a non-smoking break (it's that a racket - smokers get breaks off the clock to support an addiction and it's tolerated, but non-smokers, oh no...managers give the evil eye and bad fitness reports for non-smokers who take breaks). This thought was a bit religious in nature. I'm the third, last born (yeah I heard about that report a few weeks ago too) and I was not 'planned' like my older two siblings. But as I thought about it, no, my parents didn't plan on my arrival in this World, but God did. He planned on me being born. Gave me the best parents I could've ever had. Always had food, clothes, and a warm or cool place to sleep. Made sure I had an education....well, they did their part, me.....one of my best friends always relates a few of my day dreaming moments for a huge embarrassment factor. But it kind of struck me, that though my job sucks, my bosses are playing outside of their league, God has put me in spots to do 'something' for a reason He only knows. Just thought I'd share that with you.
Politics, that too still sucks. Iraq....we need to just start bombing sites in Iran every time a suicide bomber or road side bomb goes off in Iraq since everyone knows that Iran is the country supporting, funding, training, arming, the terrorist inside of Iraq.
Wall Street....read this:
New York — Wall Street shot higher Monday on better-than-expected manufacturing data, but gave up much of its gains after the Dow Jones industrials surpassed the 9,000 mark for the first time since December.
Analysts said investors were upbeat about an economic recovery, but some were cashing in profits on concerns that the market's recent surge might have come too far, too soon.
"The economic activity is slow to improve but the market is optimistic," said John C. Forelli, portfolio manager for Independence Investment LLC in Boston. "For the market, the glass is half-full -- as opposed to three-quarters empty as it had been for a while."
The Dow closed up 47.55, or 0.5 percent, at 8,897.81, following a weekly advance of 2.9 percent last week. It was the best level seen since Nov. 27, 2002, when the Dow closed at 8,931.68.
Tonight's NBC News with Brian Willimas, made it sound like the sky is falling, the Mongols are coming, Paris and Lindsey are out driving tonight, things that strike fear into a person. Oh my, it's falling to 12,000. And? Doesn't take a rocket scientist to understand what goes up must come down. So, what is D.C. and Big Business going to do??? If the bottom falls out, so does the top, they better realize that, and that the top have farther to fall. I guess a good thing about being on the bottom rung, step off and oh, that's it? Geez, oh, I have to make big sacrifices in my life and can't go out for supper this week, or go to a movie, whoopie dee. What D.C. and BB need to do is quit wasting our money in Iraq, police actions are always a loosing bet, South Korea may be prosperous, but unless they figure out how to unify the Korea's peacefully, the Northern madmen will again cross the border in tanks instead of cars. What also DC and BB better realize is that all this crap made in China is a) killing our children, b) killing our pets, c) killing our economy and in the end, will become a factor in Third World USA.
Well sports fans, that does it for me this week. Unless something really major urges me to blog, you have a great weekend.