The Griffith Park fire is out but now there is another fire on Catalina Island, which I can sometimes see off in the distance. Last night, before it got too dark, you could actually see the fire on the ridges. Now the horizon is covered with white smoke even though it is a clear blue day.
Yesterday a workman came into my house chuckling to himself. "Around here I get a lot of people honking at me and giving me the finger," he said.
"Why is that?" I asked.
"Oh, because I have a Bush-Cheney sticker on my truck. This is not exactly the neighborhood for that." (I live in West L.A.) "But I ask you, why is the economy so good? Why is there such low unemployment? I made two bets that Bush and Cheney would win the last election, but the other guys refused to pay up. Even though we only bet one dollar!"
"Why not? That's not very honest of them," I said.
"Well, because I told them I wanted the dollar in pennies, glued inside a frame with the caption 'I LOST,'" he said.
Yeaaaaaa him! I say that's a good question. "Why is the economy so good? Why is there such low unemployment?"
But I'm not here to quibble with you. Only to enjoy your older blog, in Europe. For all/any I can learn. As well as to simply enjoy vicarious travel.
And for your re-entry blog, now. Home again. I hope it's not for a sad reason, that you returned. But since it seems, you enjoyed being an expat.... it would seem it's a duty reason, for which you returned.
My best to you, in your 'new' life.
Hugs,
Mari-Nanci
Posted by: Mari-Nanci | 26 May 2007 at 12:55