Why Change?

 In life people develop relationships with many businesses and other people.  There are many times that I will walk an extra mile or pay the extra money simply because I am comfortable with the people I developed a relationship with.  

There is no reason to change your any ways if you are comfortable.  I have friends that have no loyalties to anyone or thing.  If it means saving a a penny, they will change their whole routine.  I am the type of person that stays loyal unless something very terrible occurs.  If I have been using the same barber for a number of years, there is no reason to change unless something dramatic happens.

Money's Worth.......

As the economy grows and the population follows, the cost for goods and services tends in crease as well.  Everybody has a budget to use for purchases of goods and services, that will make their life more comfortable.  In the capitalist free-enterprise economy that we are in increase demand leads to increase in prices for goods and services.  As prices increase people are trying to make due with what they are bringing in as pay for their labor.

The more that a company charges for its goods and services, the better the valuation of its stock.  The hypocrisy of the situation is , the same people that want value for their money want their share of the economy to be huge.  When my mother first started sending me to the supermarket for household shopping, she would give me twenty dollars her shopping list and her shopping carriage bring everything home.  At that time I was about seven years old.  For the money I was given the carriage came home full four to five big bags full.  I remember my mother saying that the coin change is mine to keep.  If I am to receive two dollars back, I would tell the cashier to give it to me in coins.  Getting to keep two dollars back in the 1970's meant that I had quite a bit of spending money for myself.  In the early 1970 a slice of pizza was five cents.  Today a the same slice goes for three dollars.  Sure you can buy a slice for a dollar but it is not quality.

For that same shopping that I did with twenty dollars, today I need almost two hundred dollars.

At the decade going back to the 1970 a person could purchase a vehicle less than five thousand dollars.  Gasoline was less than fifty cents a gallon.  Today a similar vehicle goes for about twenty two thousand dollars and gasoline is four dollars a gallon.  Minimum wage at that same time was $1.70 per hour.  Today for the same hour of work minimum wage is $7.25 per hour.  

The price of milk and that gasoline are about the same.  A gallon of milk is almost four dollars a gallon.  What is a family to do feed the family or feed the car?  To feed the family you have to feed the car.  The family vehicle is considered to also be a member of the family.  To operate a vehicle today, it is not only gas and go.  A car, does need fuel but it also need service and insurance.  Today to use a car a driver has to also consider many more tolls and cameras that issue tickets in the mail, more parking regulations and and traffic rules that add to the cost of use and ownership.

Think!  Are we getting our money's worth?  The simpler things are the more they cost. 

Not the same...

As we grow time grows with us.  We are not the same that we were.  During our parents time agreements as well as misunderstandings were resolved with a handshake.   People talk about the same subject but they all are extracting a different meaning.
Where are the good old days, everybody asks.  With every generation being born, people think things would get better but in actuality, people become more and more conniving.  The generation of today thinks that everything belongs to it.  This generation thinks that they should not have to work for anything.

Do Not Be Jealous Of Me!!!!

You are just too nice.

No time for?

The nun is a handful, need a cigarette.

Every stage of life is meant for something.  When a person is born the newborn is nurtured by its mother until the age of about two years old.  Infants are pretty much at the mercy of their parents (caretaker).  For babies to grow healthy and strong they stay with their mother and receive food and rest from her.  When that a re small humans tend to need more sleep than when they get older.

Hungry for knowledge

Help me, hold me, protect me.

From the age of two to four babies are now toddlers are at a constantly out to explore their surroundings.   Right before this time is the time for the parents to baby proof the house and make sure that the area around the child is as safe as can be for the child to be in.  This is the age of discovery and the children touches and tastes everything.  For the toddler no area is off limits.  This is a time when children make messes and get in to trouble.

As children grow from the age of five to twelve toddlers become adolescents and are part of the called "tweens"  act grown up but are still too young.  At this age humans are able to think but still are children with their feelings in a clutter.  I remember talking a person with adult children, years back.  This person said to me "little children little problem, big children big problems".

After the "tweens" come the teenage years a time when children go through puberty and begin to notice the "opposite sex."  Some teenagers attend parochial school run by the church the belong to.  The teachers tend to be nuns, monks and priests young and old.  Some of the people are confused to begin with and tend to pass on their dilemmas on to children the assigned to care for.

Spellbound...I am yours Master.

Teenagers grow into adults and many times remember their past.  The image of the covered up young nun never goes away.  In religious circles it is a sin to think of a nun in any other way than, just a servant of God.  Adults tend to remember their past and as the grow older and accumulate wealth, the tend to want to fulfill their childhood dreams.  There is always a fascination people and stuff you cannot see clearly.  The Nuns are always a wonder.  Why a person would remove themselves from society and devote themselves wholly to a spirit baffles other people yet it is respectable..

Adults are able to do more things because they are older and recognized as being able to make up  their own mind.  Adults are now subject to all the ramifications of the law.  Life is like a wheel, going round from birth to death and all over again.  From being nurtured to nurturing.  Learn ing is ongoing it only stops upon death and that we are not yet sure.

Bratwurst with Saurkraut

Summer days are approaching and this means outdoor cooking, barbecue and grilling.  I own a gas grill and for me this means, rain or shine, I am outside cooking my favorite foods with my cooking method of choice, outdoor grilling.  Yesterday's evening meal is a yummy one.  Bratwurst is a pork and beef sausage cooked in beer with sliced onions for a few minutes.  The brat's  are removed from the beer and placed on the searing hot grill until there are grill lines on them as well as being brownish in color on there outer skin.  In a separate pot also on the grill burner, you mix the onions from the leftover stock when the sausages were simmered.  Cook down the beer with the onions and about sixteen ounces of sauerkraut.  After the liquid is reduced place the sausages back in withe sauerkraut and let rest for about fifteen minutes with pot covered.  They are ready to be served with your favorite condiments (mustard, ketchup, hot sauce).

 Do not forget to lightly toast the sausage buns that are to hold the bratwurst.  Remember to have some of the beers, from the kind used for the sauce, on ice to accompany the meal.

Never Happy...

You wake up every morning, you are healthy and you have nice family and a job.  What more do you want?  Someone answers, "I want to be in Brooklyn!"  For the past twenty eight years, there is always slow traffic passing slowly in front of my lot.  There are moments when it could take an hour to move five hundred feet to the corner traffic light.
Traffic causes an ordinary calm human being to turn into a monkey pulling their hair out.  Frustration leads humans to loose control.  They start to say things that are irrational become unhappy.  It appears that traffic is a form of mind control.  People spend so much time in their vehicles that they are subject to bombardments from a number of outside forces.  Prior to having cars would either walk or ride a horse to work.

With progress everything in life first becomes more complicated.   People are pack animals and they love to be with other people. We all complain about being in lines or stuck together waiting for something good to happen.  People love being with others but  sometimes they overstay their welcome or are stuck in traffic and wish they are somewhere else. 

Frustrations come when too many things are put together and time is too short and solutions are far and in between.  You have a place of employment and you are healthy.  What is the problem?  People are never happy.  Always looking for an angle to succeed people stumble and fall.  We should be happy for what we have and by all means try to get better but do not get mentally stuck when you are physically idle.  Be happy everything g will come around one way or another.  Accept the delays and detours as part of life and you will be much better.