Wating for the morning

I haven't written for several days and much has happened while I worked my way through Cindy's birthday on Saturday, a bout of gout on Saturday and Sunday, and the usual trying to make a living. In the meantime, I have been able to drive around west central Georgia for several days and watched the fishermen on the Chattahoochee and workers at the U. S. Naval Museum in Columbus and talked to John about his travels, including his trip to Dublin. I suppose he is getting ready to start Thursday morning and will be able to see the sites in Ireland and travel to County Wicklow. I am trying to control my jealousy, but it is hard.

Meanwhile, I got to talk to Graham this morning, while I drove to Columbus. The only thing that terminated our conversation was the loss of my connection to Verizon Wireless soon after I headed south from Woodbury towards Manchester. We never got hooked up again, and my trip to Columbus ended listening to NPR from Warm Springs.

Now life returns in earnest in the morning and I really need to get back to bed to see if I can sleep. I need to sleep. I also need for this economy to return to life and jumpstart my business. It seems that a lot of people I know are suffering from the downturn. I would love to see a return to a little economic health. I would rather conduct some closings rather than foreclosures and evictions. It will come. It just may take some time. Interest rates are low and inflation is low. But the value of assets needs to rise a bit back to earlier levels and the lenders need to have confidence enough to start making commercial loans and fund the return of growth.

I don't know how I became such an economist. Not that I have a handle on it all. But I can see somethings. And my business does seem to presage growth or shrinking. Health and illness, economically. I guess it would have made more sense if I had taken some Economics classes in college.

I also need to lose some weight, but that is a completely different topic.