News good better and just plain bad a matter of opinion

The Market has finished the week up, and I suppose that is considered good.
OJ Simpson was sentenced in Nevada to 15 years today without parole for 9 years, and that was good too.
Auto manufacturers are fighting for their life in D.C., and that's a mixed bag since they deserve to be told no for the way they have been presenting their case, but their workers deserve better.
More foreclosures have been happening in historical numbers when there was supposed to be a moratorium for the holidays, over 800 in one day in Lee County Florida alone yesterday!

And right here in River City we had a three county jewelry store robbery chase last night on I 75, and the culprits were caught, one was even shot but not killed the other three were arrested and jailed, good news.
Another not so smart burglar who happened to be beyond drunk fell asleep on the floor of the living room of the home he was robbing, and was still so sloshed when he awoke he thought he was home! He never did take anything, but it was a B and E. File that one under dumb criminal bookings.

The numbers of 533k jobs were lost last month; the highest ever in one month.
We thought it couldn’t get worse and it did.

The only bright light in the news on the current forefront is the fact that gas prices have been steadily going down, here just today I saw a station at $1.79.9, and by next month they are predicting we may see our gas for under one dollar!
No one is thinking why this has happened at the very least it could be the fact that people could not afford gas while losing their homes and jobs that made them use alternate transportation or to think it out thoroughly before using gas is why, a simple case of supply and demand, another very sad mixed blessing.

My own personal good news is that even though I am fat I bought an outfit today to wear on our excursion tomorrow night (Boat Parade) and even though it was two sizes larger than ever it was still not as bad as I thought I actually was; if that makes any sense, other women would understand what I mean. Another mixed blessing for me that is.

Locally, one county over is doing a story on why police officers take home their patrol cars, and believe that is a waste of taxpayers money, but they are taxpayers too.
As a patrol officer the starting out pay was so low that the fact that my husband was able to take his patrol car home was an incentive to be on call too for any emergencies that he could be called in for.
And made us learn how to manage with only one personal vehicle, there were even a few times I had to rent an additional one to be able to get somewhere else so my husband would not be left without any if he had to leave the county.

Many a time over the years they would call back to ask for more assistance.
Using vehicles for personal use was not allowed though, even picking up milk on the way home was a no, no, and they were definitely not allowed to take it out of county without a very good reason, usually police business.
But that vehicle was a blessing in the fact that he could get to work and I could do what I had to do, and we saved money on not needing to buy extra insurances since I was no longer working due to my illness.
Before he was a police officer, at one point when our boys were still home we had four vehicles that we had insured, and that was very high, but I too was working.
The boys were still students and paid for their own gas and clothing expenses. So we know the difference.

So when we moved here and had not sold our other home and had to rent here, and he was making so much less and I was ill and I could not work that patrol car was a big help.

I truly believe things have changed with the young officers getting paid a living wage now for starting I am pretty sure so perhaps they should readjust the patrol car program to the current economic needs of the office.
But as a previous person who knows what having that car meant I really do not know what each patrol officer’s personal situations are, and one less problem for them to worry about could make a better officer.
Being retired and not that keen on driving due to my physical situation one car is just fine now; we go everywhere together anyway!

Like today for errands which included our trip to the library and yes Audition was available again and I have it now in my possession as well as another, and my hubby took out two too.

Good night to all and to all take in the whole picture.
I do know it is difficult to compare your situation to others but sometimes we just have to, to realize how we actually stand in the bigger scheme of things.