Looking Forward And Working On It
This morning I read about some big box electronics retailer deciding to fire 3400 of their employees in order to hire cheaper work. It used to be that when people did something abhorrently disgusting on a moral level they would at least try to do it in an underhanded, secretive manner. Not any more. Now, they practically brag about it. “They’re not a charity!” on pundit brayed. I’m certainly no bleeding heart nor am I a socialist, but the concept that big business does not have at least some social responsibility espouses capitalism without conscience which is every bit as destructive as the collectivization villainy in an Ayn Rand novel. When one thinks of the beefy year-end bonus that the CEO of said electronics store will probably receive as a result one cannot help but hope there is a special place in hell waiting for them. If indeed there is a hell, which I’m not so sure of.
Granted, my thinking may be a bit cloudy this morning. After all, I’m working on minimal sleep and winter seems to have returned after a couple of weeks of just enough spring-like weather to force me into a borderline suicidal slump with every falling snowflake. OK, so I’m overstating it. The “suicidal slump” is actually no more than mild irritation, but bitching about shit you can’t change is a particular pleasure of mine when sleep deprived.
Now I’ve just remembered that my wife and I, along with our little bundle of bilingual joy, will be going on a trip with some friends this summer. We will be spending several days driving along the California coast and visiting that state’s fabled wine country. Suddenly winter’s last gasp doesn’t seem to be the minor irritant that it was just moments ago. Which reminds me, we have discussed creating a travel blog/log of the whole trip and that is something that neither I nor Justin (the taller half of the couple with whom we will be traveling) have done before. I’m thinking it wise to begin educating myself to the ways of travel logs. Car: check. Digital camera: check. Laptop: check. GPS receiver filled with POI’s of wineries: check. Wherewithal: check. Ability: working on it.
