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Yes, one year at a time. I don't care. Today I am happy. Thank goodness, no one around here has been much fun lately.

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Flash Wrote:
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> Glad that it worked out. The uncomfortable part,
> of course, is that if the economy doesn't improve
> you may get to work on those ulcers again next
> year. On the brighter side though, regarding the
> economy, I got word from my son yesterday that he
> has a job starting Monday. It is not in his
> field--those jobs are not likely to come back--and
> it pays about half of what he used to earn, but
> after 14 months on unemployment with no nibbles it
> beats the heck out of nothing.

Great news for your son, Flash. 14 months with no leads would be difficult on many levels. Lots of the unemployed are going to have look outside their field. Good for him in landing a job!

fiteybitey Wrote:
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> Yes, one year at a time. I don't care. Today I am
> happy. Thank goodness, no one around here has been
> much fun lately.

Nice. Sleep well last night, fiteybitey?

Mert Wrote:
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> Nice. Sleep well last night, fiteybitey?

Amazingly I slept like garbage last night. I am not a good sleeper in the first place, but this past two weeks haven't been too bad. I finally get great news and am up half the night. Weird.

Mert Wrote:
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> Great news for your son, Flash. 14 months with no
> leads would be difficult on many levels. Lots of
> the unemployed are going to have look outside
> their field. Good for him in landing a job!

Yes, he is one of the lucky ones. Hopefully this will get a whole lot 'back on track' both for him and for worry wart mom.

I hang out at Starbucks near my house..it's kind of like a "Cheers" with the neighborhood people. Many people from the Entertaiment business are out of work, and sitting here with their computers, looking for jobs...a sign of the times, when will it end? Will Real Estate improve, jobs become available, and CAlifornia stop cutting jobs, closing library's, days off school and state employees jobs...really a sad time for many.

Live consciously....

It really is a hard time...out here in The "Inland Empire", we've been ground zero for foreclosures, it seemed. But I am starting to hear some glimmers of hope. Lennar homes are building a few homes out here...my cousin is a Realtor/Broker and is getting a lot more first time buyers...low end, but still..

I just hope we may be turning the corner! I'm relieved for you, Fitey, and glad about your son, Flash----

Kona Kathie

My sense was that things were improving, but it is looking to me as though we may get dragged down again at least somewhat. I'm hearing about more lay offs and the April unemployment numbers were up a bit while March were stable. I note that mortgage rates went DOWN last week, as did bond rates, while the stock market was falling as well. The European economy is somewhat in chaos and that won't help our exports. I had thought the summer would bring relief and that we had already hit bottom, but now I'm not feeling very confident. Kathie, you are in CA aren't you? I am expecting that CA, FL and NV will be the last areas to come back. And if the BP spill hits our beaches and wipes out tourism, it could be a very long time before we come back.

kathierost Wrote:
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> It really is a hard time...out here in The "Inland
> Empire", we've been ground zero for foreclosures,
> it seemed. But I am starting to hear some glimmers
> of hope. Lennar homes are building a few homes out
> here...my cousin is a Realtor/Broker and is
> getting a lot more first time buyers...low end,
> but still..

I am in the Central Valley and used to work in the office of a landscape company that did a lot of work for Lennar. I am suprised they are still going. So many developers have gone under. As a result so did the landscaping company I worked for. But at least I have Mystery Shopping to keep me busy and pay a few bills.
>
> I just hope we may be turning the corner! I'm
> relieved for you, Fitey, and glad about your son,
> Flash----

Thank you about my husband. We still don't know what school he will be teaching at or what exactly he will teach, but he has a job and we keep the house. Yeah!

This is a contradiction of sorts. Many jobs for state workers being cut, such as DMV closes on Fridays, library's close Sundays, school year shortened, yet, they are remodeling all our libraries (5), two having been completed and they added many new computers. They are also putting in many traffic camera's all over town. Go figure!!

Live consciously....

If they are putting more traffic cameras in towm do they figure they will catch more folks doing wrong? Then they can issue the tickets through the mail and more fines will be paid and they will make more money. We do not have that system here anywhere in the state. I have heard they do that in large cities.
We have a high $ consultant that stays at the hotel and he swears that the economy is as bad or worse than it was. The government just does not want us to know about it.

Deech..yes, that is the point. They raised the fees for all traffic tickets, and the camera's will help enforce more $$ for the town. Cops all over "lying in wait" to give out a ticket for this or that. I went 6 miles over and got a ticket last year. The cop said he could go home when he filled his book. (at least he was honest). The camera's will now replace cops giving tickets, another sign of computers taking over!! California has to raise money, this is just another way.

Live consciously....

The cops around here swear they do not have a quota. Let me qualify that. The state police say they do not have a quota. The morning newspaper prints where the city police will have radar set up for the morning for that day. I never have figured that one out. Conway police will have a call to go to a house and when they get there they will run the ID of anyone standing around or comes out of any house to see what is going on. If there is a bench warrent they go to jail and either work out their fine or pay it. It sounds funny except when somebody get cought in it and they do all the time.

The cameras went up at a few intersections in a neighboring town a few years ago. They were set up just to catch "red light runners" because that is one of the most significant (and preventable) causes of accidents here. There was question about the legality of the cameras and the fines. Now the State has made them legal and bounced the fines from I think it was $65 to I think it is around $170. The town nearby has decided to discontinue their cameras because 1) the fines are excessive and 2) (and more important) the local portion of the fine would diminish to about $20 I think it is. The cameras are not mandatory and the State was asked to pass a law to make them noncontroversially legal. The State just got too greedy in how much money THEY were going to take from the fines.

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