I paid Cilco $100.00 today, replenished my supply of one-hundred watt light bulbs, bought a different type of nightlight (since mine was flickering all the time), got tapeworm medicine for my male dog again and took a resume to the neighborhood store. I just didn't take it during my ex-high school classmate's working hours. I left it with the employee who was there, with instructions to give it to the owner.
I put an ad in the newspaper for a tenant.
It was so pretty out today. Except for my future financial plight and memories, I would ordinarily be looking forward to spring.
In three years, two months, over forty Reagon appointees have resigned from office because of questionable ethics, improper conduct or moral blind spots. Now, Edwin Meese has failed to report a gift of gold cufflinks that a South Korean official gave him, although three of his aides reported their cufflinks as gifts.
The poverty level has increased thirty percent since Reagon took office, and in the poverty neighborhoods, the infant mortality rate up to the age of one is the equivalent of Third World Countries.
I watched the Mondale, Jackson and Hart Democratic debate on TV. Gary Hart seems to be looking fifty to one-hundred years down the road, but we need a quick fix now. Fritz Mondale seems to understand that. It doesn't seem to me that futuristic planning can take effect until we get a quick fix. I thing they all care about what they care about, but my child's family doesn't have enough to eat - now. Jesse Jackson stated that he wouldn't make the first strike with a nuclear weapon, but Hart and Mondale couldn't make that promise. Hart is the only one who doesn't favor gun control. All the candidates proposed to balance the budget. Mondale's closing statement was "Vote as if your life depends on it, because it might". Jackson's theme was a "willingness to risk for peace" and Give me the right to fail". Hart's closing statement I didn't understand at all; it was much too general, idealistic and vague to relate to me. Jackson seemed to be the leader of the three and was able to control the other two candidates. He was able to break up an argument between Mondale and Hart, even when the experienced moderator couldn't. Mondale and Hart reminded me of two elderly, spinster, sisters fighting and bickering.
I slept like a baby last night.
