Josh Madagan

I just found out from a friend of mine that he and his wife are headed to the Bahamas for a four day weekend.  How great for them that is.  I couldn’t help but feel a little envious.  I know that’s bad but I tried to contol it.  I think I’m doing a little too much of working and not quite enough of living.  I feel myself becoming envious of others that are going on vacation and losing their jobs.  How funny is that to envy someone who just lost their job??  I think it’s time to take my wife to her favorite vacation destination.  You guessed it Las Vegas!  Time to stop writing and start packing.

I guess everyone has a mother or mother figure, and some of us lucky ones have more than one. I have a mother in law and a step mother.And I cannot neglect the mother of my children.

So I’m on the hook for four Mother’s Day gifts. I don’t mind at all. In fact, I get a kick out of buying gifts for my mothers and doing a little somethng nice for them on their special day.

Okay I understand that it is the beginning of May which usually reminds us of the beginning of Summer.  Not to mention the end of the school year.  So why is it so cold out still!  I am still wearing my heavy winter coat to work.  I know exactly what you are thinking- global warming.  Well it seems a little weird to me to have the temperatures in the 40′s during May and in the 70′s during November.  Does global warming mean pretty soon we are going to be celebrating Christmas in our bathing suits on our decks and patios??  Does it mean we will never again see a white Christmas?  This global warming stuff is a little too strange for me.  That’s all I have to say have a nice day and stay warm if you can.

This has been a strange month for weather.  It has rained a lot which is normal for the month of April, but the changes in the temperature are so unusual.  It has been extremely cold for this time of the year. I was still wearing my winter coat up through the first two weeks of the month.  Then all of a sudden the weather was beautiful.  It was in the high 80′s yesterday.  Unfortunately, today we woke up to rain and of course cooler temperatures along with it.  The temperature has dropped 30 degrees from yesterday.  Hopefully over the next week or so warm weather will be here to stay.  At least for a few months.

One of my friends just got laid off about 2 weeks ago and he still hasn’t tried to find a job yet.  I guess since he was at the company for 13 years he figured he needed a little bit of a break.  So now he is not working and just decided that he would spend a few weeks relaxing.  I don’t know how I feel about this.  On one hand he is right that he has been working hard for a long time.  On the other hand he is just expecting to collect unemployment for as long as he can and then he is going to think about finding a job. 

The question I have is that I don’t understand if our government does too much for people or not enough.  You always hear that those who need assistance are not getting what they need.  Then on the other hand there are those that are fully capable of working who get assistance because they don’t want to work.