New Years 2010

For the past twenty years, we have quietly retired for the evening by 10 o'clock on New Year's Eve. Haven't missed a thing. The moon is full, the fog is thick. The world is in total chaos. It's cold enough to put a log on the fire and watch whatever on TV. We may be able to stay up long enough to watch the ball drop in New York City.

We have a full and blue moon tonight. A blue moon is the second full moon of the month. Interesting and very unusual that this falls on New Years Eve.

So what changes do we have to look forward to in 2010? Perhaps the toilet paper will shrink in size even more than it has in 2009. Costs will rise. Our brand labels are disappearing in the supermarket. Gasoline prices are still rising. My retirement stash has not grown in three years. No raise from the pension fund. Texas retired teachers are in trouble. No raise from SS. But the cost of Medicare has gone up. What to do; what to do.