It's been boring in The Mansion this week....lots of cold weather (but sunny!) and work picked up, too. I've got a fund-raising invitation to finish up and a magazine ad to send out sometime today. Just when I think I'm getting out of this business something drags me back into it just a-kickin' and a-screamin'. I did get out yesterday to do some hill repeats on the bike but I was covered up to deal with the cold...but you still sweat from the efforts and that chills you. It's supposed to be 27 degrees tomorrow morning and I'm going to drag myself outside to knock out about 40 miles. The long ride will be saved for Sunday...I can hardly wait.
Guess what I'm doing Tuesday? Staying as far away from the TV as possible!! I'll have Rush Limbaugh cranked up during the day for laughs and some sanity.
A new conservative blog website has popped up and it's great! Called Big Hollywood and it's easy to spend way too much time here reading the thoughts of folks from SoCal who have to keep their conservatism under the radar in Tinsel Town.
Also was pointed to another conservative satire website called The People's Cube which reminds me a lot of the old National Lampoon magazine I used to read in the 70's but the magazine had a more liberal bent to it. This website is hilarious and has way too many articles and links in it to cover in a single day. Here is true political satire at its best and it's by conservatives!! Who'd thought?
Believe it or not, Louisiana is sorta recession-proof. Having oil and gas as our primary state-producing products helps a lot...people gotta have oil and oil products (practically everything out there!) and we've dealt with past recessions way better than most of the rest of the states outside of Texas. When the USA catches a cold, Louisiana just sniffles. We'll be hit by the down-turn of the national economy but it'll only deal us a glancing blow.
Anyways, here a simple thing you can do to help deal with the current economic downturn that's going on. Try to buy locally and at the smaller stores, the mom-and-pop types. The Wal-Marts and other large chain stores will survive in some form or fashion, or not be really affected at all. They'll still be here when all this is said and done. It's the single businesses that will be hurt the worst and they stand a better chance of going out of business, to be gone forever. Sure, their products may be a bit more expensive but the smaller places hire the majority of workers in this country and if they go under...well, it won't make the news like seeing 150,000 laid off from some car company but, as a whole, layoffs from the smaller businesses can make that 150,000 look pretty small. Do business in your town and help it survive. It's a nice thing to do. I hate looking at empty buildings that used to belong to now closed businesses.
For example, we want to replace a couple of windows in our house. We could easily go to Lowe's or Home Depot but we're going to talk to local contractors who deal with a local door/window place. The bigger stores will get business despite what we do but the local contractors are starting to hurt a bit and are looking for work, size of the job is not an issue anymore. That's how we replaced our carport door last month and they did a good job...have even checked back with us to make sure it's working properly. I like that kind of business and they'll get mine.
So, help out the small guy. That'll do more for the economy than anything else in the long run.
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