I think it's a '65.I needed forks for my sermon Sunday. Twenty of them. So I went to the thrift shop near our house and found a basket full of forks marked "30 cents each", counted out 20 of them and took them up to the counter.
The little old lady at the cash register counted out ten of the forks, one at a time.
"That's three dollars."
Then she counted the next ten, one at a time.
"That's another three dollars. That makes six. OK, three dollars, please."
I have no idea what that was about. I paid my three dollars, took my 20 forks and left the building.
We have house guests coming tomorrow afternoon. Frosty & Kathy Hansen will go to church with us Sunday morning and may stay here Sunday night; I'm not sure their schedule. In preparation for their arrival I've been doing some cleaning around the house (Pam worked yesterday and today).
When company is coming almost all of us clean, pick up and straighten. After all, we don't want them to think we live like slobs. But the fact we have to do that work so they don't think we live like slobs...sort of means we live like slobs, doesn't it?
My mother doesn't have to do extra work when company comes because her house is always spotless. Eighty six years old, crippled with arthritis and the place still looks like she has a bevy of maids, one for each room in their huge house.
Note that I said she "doesn't have to." She still does. An end table doesn't need to be dusted to get dusted. But then we're talking about a woman who irons bed sheets.
The stock market dropped today but still ended the week higher. It began the month flirting with 6,000 and is nearing 8,000 as we end March. Over the same period shares of Best Buy (BBY) have gone from below $25 a share to today's close of $38.04. Mortgage applications are up significantly as are the sales of existing homes. The unemployment rate will be the last indicator to turn around, but I'm tellin' ya, we've hit bottom and the climb back up is in its earliest stages.
Can somebody tell the government to STOP any further action to revive the economy?
A case can be made that we do need to regulate some of the financial vehicles - derivatives, hedge funds, etc. - that have heretofore gone unregulated. But we don't need more stimulus that will bankrupt our kids. Let the Darwinian laws have their way with "too big to fail" businesses and we'll be just fine.
(MSNBC has asked me to do a show right after Jim Cramer.)
Yahoo! Mail sent me an email asking for feedback on my most recent experience with tech support.
The message went to the wrong mailbox.
Did you know that a greyhound can hit 30 mph after just three strides, and reach a top speed of over 45 mph? Second fastest land animal.
Pam leaves next Thursday for 11 days to visit her mother in Michigan. This afternoon on my way to the thrift store I discovered a Pizza Hut in the same strip mall, just three miles from our house.
Jehovah Jireh.
There's more, but I don't have time. Pam will be home in an hour and I still have work to get done. The sheets need ironing.
2 comments:
It took me until your second sentence about the greyhound to realize that you weren't talking about the bus. I thought you'd get a kick out of that.
I think you should have asked the lady if she was sure you shouldn't be paying the total of $6.00. Also, I disagree on the "we've hit bottom". This is a bear market bump. It will fall again because the blip up is based on false hope in the current plan. We'll see in May which of us is right.
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