Well I guess it beats just brace yourself honey as foreplay..

Tom I really do not know totally how it all works out for some people but it seems to somehow. I never envisioned being in the income position I am at age sixty nine. Yet looking back things always seemed to work out for us somehow.

I do not know if it is good management or good circumstance or whatever. All I recognise is some seem to have it and others not. Perhaps it is because I have never been afraid to tackle anything in my case. Also I am all too well aware we all as individuals project differently.

Usually I am basically an optimist as well. This last period in time since you started this interesting thread has not reduced my unusual caution. I cannot determine if a portion of it is age related or just my antenna is still detecting things I do not like.

I still almost feel like there is a shell game of enourmous magnatude going on. As I percieve it nobody seems to really wants to deal with the serious issues that many percieve and continue to confront us as a society.

It is a well known fact that economic growth is a constant requirement to sustain our system. Since we really no longer have it currently and it does not look that good in the short term future. The resultant fallout should continue unfortunatly.