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Oh, so we’ve been in a recession for a year already? Maybe that’s why business has been shriveling for months now. I’ve never feared for my job, but I do sometimes wonder if the company will withstand the lack of new customers and projects, or the crisis within one of our main clients, the state of California. If there’s no business, there’s no company, and if there’s no company, there’s no job.
So I’ve been downsizing my own life a bit. I’ve been systematically canceling various unnecessary expenses. I know it’s supposed to be more patriotic to keep spending until all your money’s completely gone, but I’m thinking that’s not the way I want to go. Less steak, more hamburger. (That’s a metaphor, since I rarely buy either steak or hamburger.)
Today I phoned the audio book club I joined earlier this year. I phoned them because they won’t let you cancel your account on line. They’re going to credit me back for the two months I didn’t use it. I figure two months’ worth is about what I got out of it in the ten months I was in it. I’ve never had enough time to listen to as many books as I thought I would, and the only one I thoroughly enjoyed was The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid, by Bill Bryson (read by the author with wit and warmth, just as he wrote it). With what I paid for the membership, I could have bought about ten copies of that book. |
