We Are Going To Need A New Sign Soon

The National Debt Clock in NYC (I think it is on 44th St right off 6th Ave. or Avenue of the Americas for you non-NYers) went past the $10 trillion mark this week in part because of the bailout package, requiring them to add another digit to the clock. It is one of those things that you tended to look at without even noticing if you walked past it everyday, as I did for years. You really didn't want to look at the part that made it very personal - your family's share of the pie.

Several years ago the building it was on was torn down to put up one of those block long skyscrapers. So they moved it. And guess where it wound up for a new home?






A building that houses an IRS office. I guess they are keeping track of how much taxes we are all eventually going to have to pay to zero out that clock. Somebody's gotta pay someday.

We Love Living in Texas, But...

Yesterday evening my wife and I went our church for a meeting and then to dinner with a couple of friends. We wound up being the last table at the restaurant and finally took their hints that they were trying to close. So we left.

We went to a local Starbucks for a coffee. After a while, one of the people who worked there came by and politely told us they would be locking the door in 9 minutes. So we left. Then we talked in the parking lot for a bit.

We love living in Texas, but this would never had happened in NYC.

We closed a restaurant and a coffee house.

We were home, letting the dogs out for the last time that night.

And it was 10:30pm.