Well, somehow we all made it through another year (well, we still have to live all the way through tomorrow) despite ourselves. Have a happy new year. I hope and pray that all of you who need work will find it and all of us with jobs will keep them. We all need a better year for the economy. I hope we get it.

Some randomness:

Dear TVA, it only makes you look like an even bigger moron if you keep denying and covering up what happened. Your ash is deadly poison and you’d have a lot less strife if you stick with the truth.

Dear mainstream media, you are even bigger morons than TVA, if that’s possible. Start covering TVA.

Since we didn’t take a vacation this year, I had lots of personal time I had to use or lose before the end of the year. As a result, I’ve done four-day weeks since before Thanksgiving and still had enough vacation time to take off most of last week and all of this one. Although I am blessed to have a job (and glad I still do have one) I’ve really enjoyed staying up late, getting up late, and puttering around the house.

Some friends from KY came by last night. They both work in an auto parts factory in Madisonville. He’s a character – born near Hazzard and the son of coal miners. Grew up in a company house shack with no inside plumbing or heat and seven miles from a paved road. He’s been told he may work a day next week and he may not. He’s undaunted by the prospects and is going to try spending his free time building quilting frames. His goal is to make three to give to each nursing home in the county. Sometimes you don’t have to do big things to make a difference.

We dog sat over Christmas for our great-niece and her husband while they went to the great frigid north (Ohio) to visit his family. They have three boxers and we got the sweet one. It was nice having a critter around. Those brown eyes can be so expressive. She really loved being where there was a big yard to run in. As the older generation, we did exactly what we were supposed to do (I think it’s in the grand-relative contract), we spoiled her rotten so their life will be miserable for a while. I miss her pug-nosed face staring at me with her head on the side of the bed. Besides, I could blame the farts on her