Reflections

They are with me a lot today.

Much of my life from 1992 through 1998 was "Keep Up With The Jones's". Multiple jobs, multiple renovations, multiple cars all contributed to the ensuing problems. By the 1999 divorce and bankruptcy, I felt I could start anew. I was wrong.

From 1998, when the bottom fell out, through late 2001, I bottomed out. By the time the bankruptcy was discharged, evil had already taken hold. The best part of those next couple years was the Portage County fair.

Since 2001, I've been rebuilding. steadily. Lo and behold, after 2004's 13 discharge and then 2005's CSEA conciliation, I was on my way. 2006's independence from the oppressive employer who wouldn't pay me was another landmark. My subsequent job paid me 167% of the base I was making at the old grind. Too bad they couldn't keep up with Cleveland - but in all reality, it's Cleveland that can't keep up with the rest of the country.

Hence, I am on the threshhold of a new era. One that will surely carry me south and west of here, to a new state where business is rational and less political. Income will follow. I've already begun the process of license transfer.

Arizona, here I come.