All of the sudden December is accelerating, over the course of last week it went from a slow early December to a faster and faster later December. I can only imagine what the rest of the month will be like. It looks like January will be busy. I have started up the pet sitting service and am working part time for another service. This is a good start. This woman is much better organized than the other two I met over the summer, and I can build a good reputation with her and through her to the larger community. Her service is relatively large, and she has lots of contacts. The busy part of January won’t be sitting, it seems that it will take a few months to get a clientele built up, what will take up all my time is working on my own business, it is slow for this business the first three months of the year, so I will have to prepare to lay down a lot of groundwork with little results until the second quarter, when hopefully a little word of mouth will be established.
I can’t seem to stay away from current events, even though I can feel my frustration at the repetition of the news and the candidates themselves. Sunday morning talkshows on ABC and CBS were pretty good though. I had taken a break from that sort of tv for a few weeks and it seemed a little fresher. I am glad Edwards, my favorite, is taking a strong stand at the moment, even if it lost him the Des Moines Register in Iowa. The Hollywood Writers strike reminds me that corporate interests respond to a big stick and then negotiations. The writers big problems are that they are not powerful enough without the back up of the stars, and so it is easier for the corps to weather these stand offs, with threats that nothing will ever seem the same again. I am not sure being such a populist will win Edwards in the the long run, but these things have to be said, and the standards of society and government has to be moved more in favor of the consumer and citizen, and away from the financial interests that benefit the very few. More regulation will make a better, healtheir society for all. I don’t everyone needs or wants to be rich, just comfortable and able to move around in society.
