Today is my birthday and I hate to admit it but today I turn fifty. I never thought I would reach this plateau and it has been a rough trip to get this far in life. I am happy that I have family around that will help me celebrate this water mark birthday. I have to work tonight but it will be an easy night and I will hurry home to get some rest before the festivities tonight. All I want for my birthday is a good dinner and a watch that I have been looking at, I think I left a trail to the watch that a blind person could follow and I hope thats what I get for my birthday.
The lines to get gas at the stations that had gas were out of sight, some stations had a two hour wait to get gas, and that is the stations that even had gasoline it was a circus for sure. I do not see an end to this ridiculous event as long as people act crazy and hoard gasoline. Just get gasoline when you have to and let the gas stations catch back up and we will be able to go back to normal around here. The storm is over but the back lash will last for a very long time with high prices for gasoline and a real shortage problem here in Nashville and Atlanta is worse I am hearing, I think I will stay home this week and save money.
The high price of gasoline has about driven us right out of business. It is costing us more to drive back and forth to work than we are making and it is plain crazy to keep doing it for very long if things do not change I will have to find me a part time job just to afford to drive to work everyday. We pay our drivers a flat fee to deliver the papers and they can not make any money either at this high gasoline price. As hard as it is to keep drivers I know if they can not make money they can not work for us and I do understand that.
I love 3 day weekends but Labor Day is a sad one because it means that summer is over. For years I would look forward to Labor Day because it meant that school was about to start with the new school year, and I was looking forward to seeing my firends again. Then when I got out of school and into the real world, I had nothing to look forward to after Labor Day except progressively colder weather and higher heating bills. So I’ll take the day off and try to do something symbolic, but the day depresses me more than being a reason to celebrate.