Been a little while since I posted. Just wanted to let loose a little while on a break at work.
So, it was foggy this morning. Very foggy in fact. They put the schools on a delay because of it. Something about it was wonderful though. It seemed... clean.
It was as if it masked things distant, giving only a short view. In certain circumstances, a short view is more pleasant then a long one, and this morning was an example of that. I must admit however that my outlook on things as of late is much to the contrary. Equal but opposite in fact.
Times are tough, and things suck for a lot of people. I'm doing well myself, but preparing for the unexpected either way. The short view for me consists of making a major promotion at my day job, reenlisting with the Reserves for another 6 years (still feels weird to say, but I'm actually happy here), and lining myself up to finally, viably go back to school. A lot of hard work in the short term, but the long view is nice. It's full of hope and opportunity. I don't mean to be overly optimistic, but the bottom line is, if you mean to shoot a target, buckshot gives much better odds of a hit then a slug.
The politics of today sometimes are disappointing, but things are getting better, mostly we're all just realizing how bad they really were. Most of us, myself included, refused to believe it for a long time, but here it is now, in our faces. Time to deal.
I think things are really not so bad. I'm young, and my savings is small, and I did lose about 45% of it in the downturn, but I didn't sell anything, and none of the stuff I owned went away. To me, since I'm still buying every paycheck, that means I'm just getting more shares for the same dollar. It is bound to come at least most of the way back before my time to retire comes along, and when that day DOES come, well, suffice it to say I'm not smart enough to project what the world will be like, or dumb enough to think I am. I have some ideas though, and I'll do my part to see them come to fruition.
The fog always lifts eventually, and when it does, I'm hopeful that the view will be even better.
Ken
