Water
here is getting much more expensive by the year. It is still less than gasoline but it is increasing in price at a much faster rate. Now we are under requirements to reduce our use of it. I heard this by listening out of the corner of my ear as I was channel surfing yesterday. I figure I am ok on the issue of water conservation however. I gave up watering most of my lawn almost two years ago and have become content with looking at yellow dormant stubble. In a way it is much easier. It does not require constant mowing and weeds do not grow in it. At this point I have one small area that continues to get water. My dog seems to prefer having a green place to do his business. Of course our water problems may get worse in the near future. When they start threatening my source of drinking water I get militant in my thinking.
Being a cancer I need water. I drink a lot of water. I still drink from the tap because bottled water is much more expensive than what comes out of the faucet. I also like to immerse myself in it frequently. One of the things I miss most now that I do not go to work every day is that I have given up my daily shower (some people think they need these even if they do not work). I would not have to but it is part of that economy thing. I really can take a spit bath to get to feeling clean and it is better for the environment. I have settled for the moment on showering every third day or so. If I have somewhere to go or someone is coming over or I have been working hard I can always dash into the shower.
On another front my youngest grandson has another summer cold. I have sort of decided that this is a good method for Mother Nature to use to get rid of the older non-productive (as in non-reproducing) individuals out of the way for the younger generation. As sure as shooting next week I will be stricken. The last event resulted in a full fledged bout with pneumonia that I almost did not recover from. I note also that Bob Hope finally succumbed to pneumonia so I guess if I die from it I will be in good company. If I do I will do a better job of conserving water. At least one older person says that staying active is the cure for the summer cold so I could kill at least three of these conundrums if I do get the cold. How is that for circular reasoning?
My adult children continue to be permanently unemployed in our current economy. I have been working on accepting the fact and that I will continue to have to support them. My son has given up on his programming degree due to the fact that the percentage of these jobs seems to be going overseas. (Thanks to Dave Pollard for alerting me to that link.) He is again mulling what to do about an increasingly sad looking future.
This means that I will be blogging I guess for a while longer. As long as I can afford the cable modem at least there will be cheap entertainment for them to continue to play on line games to avoid the issue of not being able to find anyone who desires to employ them. Blogging has become my own brand of cheap entertainment.
Hopefully one will see this as sardonic humor. If not, and I sound bitter that is the way things are going generally.
12:09:22 PM 
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