02102009

Boy, howdy! Lots on the plate tonight. Maybe better do bullet points and explication:

1) Oh Lord, please don't let me become an old curmudgeon! One of the things you have to deal with as a public school tech is the tendency bored kids have to pick at and play with the computers. So now I have several laptops missing keys, and not only the keys, but the clips that hold the damn keys in place! So we'll probably have to replace the whole keyboard. I know it's not my money, and it's not the time involved, but, DAMN IT, I wish I'd had this kind of gear when I was a kid in school! The last thing I would've done is screw around to see if I could pull the keys off! I keep telling myself, they're just kids, they don't think about the ramifications of the silly things they do, but it does get hard.

2) Money is going to keep getting tighter...(see previous post)...I love my job, but it barely pays enough to meet the bills. Trying to find supplemental income puts me squarely into the vast population of newly unemployed in my city. It makes me worry about all those newly unemployed...who do those people in top management think are going to be able to pay for their goods and services if they keep sending manufacturing jobs overseas? I'm all for helping the third world improve their standards of living, but we can't help them if we can't afford what they're making!

3) Now I'm just tired of thinking about #2. I've got to clear my head before I blog about anything else.