Tuesday, February 17, 2009

787B, Wow it is now the law! More excitement, DTV is now a fact of life here in Florida, as of noon today!

The 787B stimulus/ economic package was signed into law today in Denver Colorado by President Obama, hopefully, marking the beginning of the end of most our nation’s financial woes.

In Florida we are getting 8.1B so the national news stated but our local news said 11B, which is right only time will tell, either will be to shore up our infrastructure, help our healthcare system and pay for unemployment extensions!
That sounds not too bad, we sure can use that help in those areas, but none of that has any direct affect on me and mine, although I am happy for those people in need.

The below site is for us American taxpayers that wish to track where our money is going: http://www.recovery.gov/
Time will tell how this is all going to turn out.

The stock market is nervous and went down again 298 points, guess they are concerned we might not contribute to their ups and downs if our own tax money helps us out.

Our new president today deployed troops and the count was… of 17K additional forces to Afghanistan.

A deadline for the automotive industries is today, GM and Chrysler that is. They just turned in their viability reports today, but will need billions to turn things around, an additional 18B for both they feel.

Today also was the big day that stops our in state reminders about DTV coming and what to do, since officially Florida hit the switch today at noon!
Yea, no more annoying commercials, but now the TV channels are taking phone calls for people who…get this… are surprised when they got home from work today that there TV isn’t working, because of the change over and they supposedly had no clue, huh?
I really think if these people have a tendency to turn on their TV first thing when they arrive home from work I would think… but I could be wrong that they might have an inkling that this big moment was going to happen today!
Don’t you think so too?

My own day was not as exciting as our government’s, but to be honest it was touch and go for most of it.
I started out happy go lucky took my ride for a ride around the neighborhood, which was very pleasant stopping off to bend the ear of my neighbor across the canal all the way till lunch.

Afterwards I got concerned I hadn’t hear from my cousins still so I called again and got miff when I got my female cousin and again she put me off stating that my male cousin would be calling me back and that they were unavailable for the dinner party this Saturday since they already had plans, I said then don’t bother to tell him to call back since that’s all I wanted to know.

Meanwhile, this is how my mind works … were they trying to avoid me for some reason?
So as I do in all these situations I start calling my friends’ bank, and of course no one was home and I got a few machines.
But then I struck pay dirt.
And talked and talked for over an hour about anything else.

Although, I did mention how odd it was that they couldn’t just tell me up front that they were unavailable.

Anyway, my cousin did call back and we cleared the air their other plans had been made months before and my timing was just amiss.

My disappointment was palatable, but he reassured me that we would get together soon.
And I was relieved.
Well, I am getting tired so good night to all and to all count those blessings and I will too.

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