Leelanau Whippersnapper

Well it was back to work today after a pretty decent weekend off.  I didn’t get much done around the house but that’s OK for now.  As it gets nicer, it will be easier to get motivated to clean shit out and get rid of it.  I’ve got a lot of work ahead of me.  I will be moving to a smaller place without a spouce, shit needs to get thinned down and cleaned out.  I’ve already managed to dump about 10 bags of stuff at Goodwill in the past month, I can only imagine how much more I’ll end up just donating.  I wish I could sell it and make some money but I just don’t have the time.

I am really pretty disappointed with work right now.  Not really with my co-workers or even the jack ass customers that come in, I’m disappointed that here we are in the middle of April and business is STILL not getting any stronger.  I am STILL having to send my people home early.  This time last year, we were hopping and things were very brisk.  The mood this year is pretty somber.  It’s going to be a tough summer for a lot of businesses around here and everywhere else in the state.  I’ll know when Memorial Day weekend gets here how things are going to be.  As it stands that’s only 6 weeks away.  It’s all downhill after that weekend so I’ve got 6 weeks here to make some serious sales.

Things are quiet lately in the house and I like it like that.  I can’t wait to be in my own place.  If there is one thing Jirar taught me it was to give a shit about your own environment.  I simply can not live in a shit hole.  When the house is clean, I am more productive, I am nicer, I can find things, my allergies don’t bother me….yada yada.  When the house is dirty, so is my life and I don’t like that feeling.  I do not have 100% control over my personal environment when a roommate is present and since I no longer have to share my life with anyone, I want that control back 100%.  Soon enough.

So I found this on the internet the other day and had to post it.  I’ve not written much about politics here lately and I don’t really intend to start but there were recently some issues with China’s treatment of Tibet as well as with the Olympic torch passing that apparently pissed off a few people.  I’m not a big fan of China but I’m also not a big fan of hypocrites.  It’s pretty interesting up here, in red-neck land you get a lot of people who are constantly screaming YEH FOR AMERICA — FUCK THE COMMIE BASTARDS! But these people have no idea that a huge portion of that “American” car they are driving have parts made in China.  Many have no idea that the T-Shirt they are wearing that says JEFF FOXWORTHY in big Red White and Blue letters was made in China.  Many have no idea that the flag they have draped across the gun rack in their pick-up truck was made in China.  The fact of the matter is that China is responsible for a huge portion of our imports in this country.  We are a huge contributor to their success as a developing nation.  The politics will change in China, that is certain.  There are no developed countries left in the world who can reasonably push communism without social revolt.  Economic freedom will always bring political freedom with it.  I personally think China will become a major Superpower in the next century and we need to work with them not against them.  Anyhow, don’t be a hypocrite.  If you want to be anti-anything, don’t do a half ass job at it like the dip shit in the picture below.