One of the most challenging things about writing is that you have to listen to yourself. When all you feel like doing with your daily note is whining–and you don’t feel like listening to someone whine–it puts you in a bit of a bind. You can either chicken out and not write. You can write what you feel and put up with someone whining (get over it!). Or you can figure out something to write that doesn’t constitute whining. Those things are ordered by degree of ease, in case you were wondering.
I helped the two youngest make salt-water taffy yesterday. Then general consensus is that it’s more fun to make than to eat. Taffy, homemade otherwise, somehow seems to have a vaguely plastic presence about it. If you like chewing on plastic, it’s all good. If not, it gets old pretty quick.
I attempted to become the reigning champ in Dutch Blitz yesterday, but alas. We were neck and neck for most of the way, but in the end I didn’t even manage a victory, never mind a crushing one.
New “Workers Comp” regulations are being spewed–or rather, sneakily pushed out. It seems that though government doesn’t want to risk public outcry by discontinuing programs, they’re still cutting back–just in a governmental sort of way. If you write so many laws, rules regulations and nit-picky things that your service becomes defunct–well, it wasn’t your fault the health care industry didn’t want to play dice. Right? Right. I was struck today by how very much so life is like watching a train-wreck in slow motion and wondering when it will hit. On one hand, there’s nothing you can do about it, so why are you watching? On the other hand, sometimes it seems impossible to look away.
For instance, consider the person who works for Unemployment. There are a bunch of people who are going to be going off Unemployment–NOW. Right before the holidays. All of their extensions upon extensions have run out. So. . .the Unemployment staff are sitting through briefings on the topic of suicide, in hopes of preparing them for what is expected to come next. If not now, when?