Ethanol

"Surging food inflation and mounting budgetary costs are already beginning to undercut public support for ethanol's ill-conceived subsidies. The sooner that public support collapses, the better. The only thing this renewable energy policy will fuel is inflation." --Jeff Rubin I believe that all subsidies are ill-conceived.

I'm Reading . . .

WHY YOUR WORLD IS ABOUT TO GET A WHOLE LOT SMALLER by Jeff Rubin with subtitle: OIL AND THE END OF GLOBALIZATION Scary! "Despite the recent recessionay dip, oil prices will skyrocket again once the economy recovers. The fact is, worldwide reserves are disappearing for good."

Wouldn't you think . . .

that I could go online and find plain black-on-white prenumbered stickers? I couldn't. I want them so I can assign numbers to objects to be appraised. Is that asking too much?

Complaint Department

Lately on my home computer when I go online I get a window suggesting that I upgrade my Adobe Flash Player. If I select yes I'm told my OS (Windows 98 SE) doesn't qualify! Very annoying! I decided to report this to Adobe. I tried and tried but couldn't find the right connection. Why don't they have an e-mail address where I can tell them this in prose or poetry, but not menu-ese.

Btw, AVG has a new free version which doesn't work with Windows 98. The old one is no longer updated so I uninstalled it. Sigh!

Downsizing

Living alone at my age in a 4-bedr00m 3-car-garage house! How stupid can you get! On the other hand, disposing of enough stuff in it is a major project for which I need help. If you can have a living will why not a living estate sale? Who do I turn to? Professional Organizer? Antique store? Handy man? E-bay? U-Haul? Relatives? Dumpster? Movers?

HELP

Nothing to Say

"In the land of the economically illiterate, John Stossel deserves great praise for being a lone TV, Radio, or Print journalist of economic literacy."

I seem to agree with him about everything.

I'm writing this at McDonald's on a netbook. Two cute little girs and their mother are fascinated. When I said to the mother that the problem was that I didn't have anything to say she said she was sure I had a lot to say.

Hi, Loretta.

A man in the next booth is asking about my Acer netbook. I seem to get a lot of attention with it.