Back on the right track

Talking heads on all the news channels keep telling us that the economy is getting better and that the recession will soon be over. I don’t know that I believe that, but I hope it is true. I have been fortunate to keep working and have the money to pay my bills. I know a lot of people have not been this lucky.

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Still Having PC Problems

I got the desktop working for all of three days. Now it’s not working again. So back to the surgery table, I guess.

I can’t see it

I really don’t pay much attention as to how I find things on the Internet. I have emails that direct me to different sites when I log out, and sometimes I see a story that catches my attention and I click on it. That’s how I found this video of a high-school football kick-off being thwarted by 40 mph winds. I watched the video, and though I can see the players chasing after the ball, I can’t see the ball itself. Can you?

Annoying solicitation calls

I am starting to get very aggravated by the telephone calls from companies trying to sell us their products. We tell them no, we are not interested, and within ten minutes they are calling back, trying to sell the product again! This has gone on for several days now, a company keeps calling to try to sell my wife an ad in their “yellow pages” for her “painting business.” I keep telling them that she is not interested, and they hang up, but then they call back again. I don’t know why they had the thought that she had a painting business. Finally they called when she was home and she answered the phone. She listened politely to the sales pitch and then informed them that she does not HAVE a painting business.

Well, they hung up and it has been about two days since they have called. I hope that is the end of that one! But this morning, the phone rang and it was obvious that it was an automated call – when I picked up the phone and said hello a pre-recorded voice said “sorry, wrong number” and hung up! Boy didn’t that make me angry!

Maybe it’s time to re-sign up for the National do not call registry.

He didn’t like that very much

I can remember during my very first College class (English 101) my teacher assigned the class to write a paper about why a college education is vital (or not) to getting a good job in the future.  As part of the exercise, we were supposed to support our position.  Well, I decided to take the approach that it was NOT vital.  Needless to say, the teacher did NOT like that paper and gave me a low grade on it!

But I have been hearing lately that there is, in fact, a glut of over-educated people in the work force that cannot find jobs in their chosen fields.  And that there is a shortage of workers in the skilled trades.  My nephew has been telling me that he wants to start taking online courses from a place like Walden University but that he is afraid that he won’t be able to afford the tuition.  He had read an article in The Chronicle that wrote about the tuition rates continuing to increase, and how that is making it more difficult for people to go to college.  I’m inclined to suggest that my nephew start thinking about a trade school instead.  Seems to me that it would be a good idea to do both; diversity of skills might make the difference between gainful employment and standing in line at the soup kitchen!