Wednesday, January 28, 2009

Imagine not having any entertainment to distract you from your personal woes...

Well, the crime rate I am afraid may just be going up a wee bit more; something no one needs in these times, another problem.
Remember those converter boxes to give you access to the new digital TV age if you didn't have cable or some other form to change it like a satellite to be your combined entrée to digital, but now you will be out of luck, or more than likely out of pocket with another useless expense?
Those discount cards that were going to give you a total of eighty bucks off on those two converter boxes… well, the money is not there anymore, and they have not delayed the change over like they were trying to.
I know it is awfully unimaginative of me to think that because of no free at home entertainment that crime will go up, but think about it, so many who sat quietly twiddling their thumbs staring at the box were off the streets at night not causing any havoc will now have to find something else to do to keep busy with.
The positive thinking ones will say, well, they can read, or go to or rent a movie, or play board games with their children, but alas how will these poorer people afford that if they couldn’t afford the forty bucks in the first place for the converter or the monthly cable charges? And what if they are now part of the multitude of unemployed?
Think about it, the news has said that over six million people in the US are still using roof antennas; do you really think that those people would spring for the full price of those converters?
I think not, we didn’t on those first two, but we used our discount cards last June fortunately when we received them, but on our third we did pay out of pocket, only fair.
They tried to delay the digital procedure until June 12th of this year instead of the 17th of February, which our government as of today they did vote and are allowing that to be the date still!
Stimulus bimulus if people don’t have their boob tube you can bet your sweet bippy that sooner rather than later they will be up to no good!
Kidding, I really have more faith in our fellow man and woman to be more creative with time on their hands.
Some may go to see TV at a friend’s house who’s has the works, or go for a walk to let out that pent up energy and walking is a freebie. Or maybe they will just steal one or the cable like people unfortunately do all too often, so I am told.
But that last sentence proves my crime theory.
No, no I will not allow that negativity to cross my mind, people are good by nature and resourceful and the human race will prove that little curves in our daily lives are just that minutia and not worth our fretting over just to endure and find a better way to conquer the problem whatever it might be!


Now as I write this they are talking about shortening the mail delivery week to five from six days, but get this, they are talking about taking away the mid week delivery that is where they might cut, confusing our bill and medication distributions on both ends. Let’s get real… aren’t we already confused enough?

More challenges for us all and silly me I just worry about my health, but in the bigger picture it is such a small thing, isn’t it? As I said before all of this is just a minuscule blip in the time continuum. When or once we can step back and try to look at all of this objectively, wow, it would be similar to seeing the world from the space shuttle, really tiny.
PS today was the anniversary of that horrid day in our past when the Challenger blew up January 28. 1986. My Dad saw it live, the day after his 79th birthday also his last birthday, while standing on his vacation balcony at a condo in Flagler Florida.

So people I beg you to do not harp on the bad but enjoy the good and even why not, the ugly!
Remember this too will pass… eventually.

Good night to all and to all sorry you northerners but it was 80’s here today in Southwest Florida! We each can find some good in each and every day, just look harder.

Why just today I had a surprise visit from my neightbor from across the canal and it was a very pleasant surprise!

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