Back in the Saddle Again
Well Hambone's long unemployment odyssey has ended and reality is setting in. From unpaid screenwriter to paid computer programmer, what a long strange trip it's been. You can hear his synapses crashing all the way to Pastakala, Ohio as he segues from the right-brain to the left.
There is a gallows humor. "I'm only two bad decisions from insanity" says he, and I can relate.
Ideas got bounced around at lunch, the first of which was that he buy a banquet hall and rent it out on the weekends for wedding receptions and such.
The second idea was more to my liking. A radio show! Yes, Bone and I will rhapsodize on the issues be they political or economic or religious, presumably for an audience of twelve. One problem is that we lack the arresting bass voice of a Rush Limbaugh or Paul Harvey. Bone began speaking in a low voice. I realized this idea was a non-starter.
The third option was to combine households and thus cut the number of needed wage earners. He said that it used to be that families would house three generations and have one wage-earner. Now we're going in the opposite direction in having two wage earners per nuclear family...So stayed tuned to find out who draws the short straw and becomes the one wage-earner! And stayed tuned (if you've got the time) for signs of maturity in us ridiculously spoiled folks!
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