I assume that the workmen came early this a.m. to clear the pipes as the lake in the basement had drained. This is especially good as it is still raining. I went off to the laundry mat for a few hours with a good book and then came back here to hose out the basement. I’ll bleach it later when it dries.

I ran into Liz at the unemployment office, her nursing gig tanked. You know it’s a nice healthy economy when you start running into people you know at that office. A company from Chicago came in to St. Louis and bought several local hospice providers, they then halved their wages and started firing people who agitated. A rising tide lifts all boats, except the ones we sink with heavy cannon fire.

Liz got into a dispute with them over some other new policy and the family she was helping fired the company and hired her independently. That worked for a while, but obviously hospice jobs don’t last forever. So now she might be moving back to Chicago, or at least sending her cats there for safe keeping.

What do you think about jumping into the M.A. in education program at UMSL? Just a thought. If I had ten thousand dollars I could open a bar just up the street from Harvest. Location, location, location.