I would think the conclusions reached by the analyst in this article are overstated. But I do believe concern will continue about the ongoing collapse of the US Dollar currency in future months with the Euro perhaps getting to 1.75 and other currencies internationally gaining additional strength. Will OPEC refuse to take US dollars for payment ? That is getting to be a distinct possibility, but no action on this matter will probably occur for several months. This is a very complicated issue and all the ramifications of the continuing collapse are not easily recognized and fully understood by the American public and the elected leadership throughout the nation. One thing for sure is that the American standard of living is destined to continue to decline noticeably for most citizens.
http://www.upi.com/NewsTrack/Business/2007/11/19/forecast_us_dollar_could_plunge_90_pct/4876
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Saturday, November 24, 2007
My Week in Review: 18-24 November
The Life and Times of Yours Truly for this particular week.
Sunday 18 November: I had to work today which was kind of a downer as I missed being able to watch Sunday afternoon football while leisurely reading my newspapers. So it was the full day of work and the extra money will definitely be a plus. I awoke around 8:15 am and after breakfast, I made it over to King Soopers for the weekly grocery run. I will have to get over to Walmart for part two of this run on Tuesday. It was a cloudy breezy day with temperatures climbing into the mid 60s after a morning low barely below 50 degrees. We have one more day of significantly above normal temperatures on Monday as we are forecast to be amazingly and incredibly near 70 degrees before it gets back to a routine more normal as below normal temps are forecast through next weekend and some light snowfall will happen. I got home in time to watch the last two reports on 60 Minutes and then tuned into the Patriots' dismantling of the Buffalo Bills on SNF. I had some carrots and a chicken sandwich for dinner and worked on my blog and surfed into the late evening, watching the news, the FSN Evening Highlight Show, and the alltime great classic film "Casablanca" before going to bed around midnight, as I have three full days of work still ahead of me.
Monday 19 September: I awoke before the alarm clock and readied myself for a full day at work. It was a crystal clear day with light to medium winds and temperatures setting a record by climbing to 70 degrees. This is more than 25 degrees above normal and even the morning was warm as we set a record for a maximum low temperature. All this comes to an end crashing down by 40 degrees by mid afternoon Tuesday with 4" of snow after sundown with strong howling north winds beckoning in a Canadian airmass which will dominate the climate in the region for the next several days. We got about four months or so of this to look forward to but hopefully the projections of a warm mild dry winter will bear out so these cold waves will strongly be the exception rather than the rule through March into April. I got home after 5:15pm and watched the news, worked on my blog, surfed the web, talked to Todd on the phone before he heads to Utah for the long holiday, watched the Broncos whip Tennessee on MNF, had Lipton Parmesan Noodles and butter bread for dinner, and headed off to bed by 1o:45pm as I was quite tired.
Tuesday 20 November: Once again I awoke before the alarm clock and got a little extra headstart on the day. It was another full day at work. The day started out with clear blue sunny skies and no wind but cold as the front came through around dawn. It never got much past 35 degrees and the clouds arrived by 2pm and snow falling by 7pm with 3-5" expected overnight. After I got off work, I went over to Walmart and got some more groceries to keep me stocked up on nonperishibles for another month. I also got myself a pumpkin pie to savor in the coming days. After I got home I had a salad and a sandwich for dinner, watched the movie "Dick Tracy", and caught the Avalanche game against Calgary (yet another decisive road loss). I caught the 9pm news, surfed the 'net, worked on the blog, and went on to bed around 10:45pm.
Wednesday 21 November: A strong taste of winter was apparent today as I awoke to see about 3" of snow had fallen overnight. Fortunately it was powder so it could be swept off the windshield without any scraping of ice. It was doggone cold too and it never warmed up as we topped out at about 25 degrees with despite sunshine aplenty after 12 noon as skies cleared. I worked all day and a little extra as the business closed early tonight at 6pm and I stayed on through and got out about 6:30. I went over and got myself a bottle of wine and headed home out of the cold. Fortunately with this kind of storm the wind dies off so its not any colder than it is already. I had a salad, a can of chili, and some butter bread for dinner. I watched an episode of the TV series "Pushing Daisies" (its kind of bizarre) and just surfed through the news and really did not pay attention to what was on for the most part. Since it was a longer than usual day at work, I ran out of fuel before 11pm and went to sleep, comfortable in knowing I get two straight days off to relax and enjoy some peace and quiet.
Thursday 22 November: I awoke around 10am on this holiday. It was a clear cold day as temps only climbed into the low to mid 20s after a low around zero. I had some oatmeal for breakfast and watched the Packers/Lions game. After the game ended I watched half-interested some movies and just relaxed as I did not want to watch Al-Qaida's team, the Dallas Cocaineboys play the hapless Jets. Brother HBL called and wished me well. I then got into watching a 1991 movie with Hume Cronyn and Fred Savage entitled Christmas on Division Street about a homeless man befriended by a teenager. Then surprisingly I got a call from Brant inviting me over to join him and his family for dinner. I had understood that they would be going out of town for the day but they changed their plans and decided to stay in town. I headed over around 6pm , enjoyed a wonderful tasty feast with all the fixings, engaged in some nice conversation, watched some of the Avalanche game after seeing both football games were routs, and headed home around midnight on a bitterly cold night. I checked my email and blog and saw my thoughtful youngest sister LAC left a warm caring message. I went to bed around 1:15am.
Friday 23 November: Eating that great dinner Thursday night let me sleep deeply and uninterupted until after 1oam. I awoke and watched the Colorado/Nebraska game and kept up with Delaware/Delaware St. I switched over to the Wyoming/Colorado St game after 12noon, listening to the play-by-play on radio with Dave Walsh and Kevin McKinney of the Wyoming radio network (two great guys I met a number of years back) and kept up with Louisiana St/Arkansas. After that I watched the remainder of the Texas A&M/Texas game. It was mostly cloudy day and still cold as temperatures reached the mid to upper 20s with virtually no wind. We finally start to warm up on Saturday and melt the 2" of snow still on the ground and elsewhere including the bed of my truck. As day turned into evening I had some pumpkin pie for dinner and a little later I had two chicken patty sandwiches. I watched the Hawaii/Boise St football game which was entertaining and well -played as most of the games this Friday had favorable results. I started to watch the movie "Casino" before going to bed around 1am.
Saturday 24 November: A full day at work with a starting time one hour earlier and the workday did not finish up until after 5:30 pm. After having to deal with the hassle of getting out of downtown because of the Christmas Parade closing streets and disrupting traffic, I then went to the post office to mail my electric bill and pick up the mail. In that mail was a card for Thanksgiving from youngest sister LAC and she enclosed some recent photos of her daughters. It was very kind and thoughtful of her to send me this as I largely get no mail except utility bills, bank statement, and lots of junk mail that sometimes contains coupons for free food. After I got home around 6:15, I rested and watched some college football (Kansas/Missouri; Auburn/Alabama; & Washington St/Washington), and listened in to the Wyoming/Wichita St basketball game on the radio. It turned out to be a warmer day with sunny skies and temperatures reaching over 40 degrees after three straight days below freezing. Some more snow did melt but there is still a good quantity that still is sitting in many places and the streets have ice on them in areas where the sunshine is limited. I realized I went all week without going out for a meal I had to pay for. So I ate in at home once again as I had a salad for dinner and some cream of mushroom soup. The long day resulted in me being quite tired so I went to bed around 10pm after I surfed and caught up on my email, websites, and blog.
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Sunday 18 November: I had to work today which was kind of a downer as I missed being able to watch Sunday afternoon football while leisurely reading my newspapers. So it was the full day of work and the extra money will definitely be a plus. I awoke around 8:15 am and after breakfast, I made it over to King Soopers for the weekly grocery run. I will have to get over to Walmart for part two of this run on Tuesday. It was a cloudy breezy day with temperatures climbing into the mid 60s after a morning low barely below 50 degrees. We have one more day of significantly above normal temperatures on Monday as we are forecast to be amazingly and incredibly near 70 degrees before it gets back to a routine more normal as below normal temps are forecast through next weekend and some light snowfall will happen. I got home in time to watch the last two reports on 60 Minutes and then tuned into the Patriots' dismantling of the Buffalo Bills on SNF. I had some carrots and a chicken sandwich for dinner and worked on my blog and surfed into the late evening, watching the news, the FSN Evening Highlight Show, and the alltime great classic film "Casablanca" before going to bed around midnight, as I have three full days of work still ahead of me.
Monday 19 September: I awoke before the alarm clock and readied myself for a full day at work. It was a crystal clear day with light to medium winds and temperatures setting a record by climbing to 70 degrees. This is more than 25 degrees above normal and even the morning was warm as we set a record for a maximum low temperature. All this comes to an end crashing down by 40 degrees by mid afternoon Tuesday with 4" of snow after sundown with strong howling north winds beckoning in a Canadian airmass which will dominate the climate in the region for the next several days. We got about four months or so of this to look forward to but hopefully the projections of a warm mild dry winter will bear out so these cold waves will strongly be the exception rather than the rule through March into April. I got home after 5:15pm and watched the news, worked on my blog, surfed the web, talked to Todd on the phone before he heads to Utah for the long holiday, watched the Broncos whip Tennessee on MNF, had Lipton Parmesan Noodles and butter bread for dinner, and headed off to bed by 1o:45pm as I was quite tired.
Tuesday 20 November: Once again I awoke before the alarm clock and got a little extra headstart on the day. It was another full day at work. The day started out with clear blue sunny skies and no wind but cold as the front came through around dawn. It never got much past 35 degrees and the clouds arrived by 2pm and snow falling by 7pm with 3-5" expected overnight. After I got off work, I went over to Walmart and got some more groceries to keep me stocked up on nonperishibles for another month. I also got myself a pumpkin pie to savor in the coming days. After I got home I had a salad and a sandwich for dinner, watched the movie "Dick Tracy", and caught the Avalanche game against Calgary (yet another decisive road loss). I caught the 9pm news, surfed the 'net, worked on the blog, and went on to bed around 10:45pm.
Wednesday 21 November: A strong taste of winter was apparent today as I awoke to see about 3" of snow had fallen overnight. Fortunately it was powder so it could be swept off the windshield without any scraping of ice. It was doggone cold too and it never warmed up as we topped out at about 25 degrees with despite sunshine aplenty after 12 noon as skies cleared. I worked all day and a little extra as the business closed early tonight at 6pm and I stayed on through and got out about 6:30. I went over and got myself a bottle of wine and headed home out of the cold. Fortunately with this kind of storm the wind dies off so its not any colder than it is already. I had a salad, a can of chili, and some butter bread for dinner. I watched an episode of the TV series "Pushing Daisies" (its kind of bizarre) and just surfed through the news and really did not pay attention to what was on for the most part. Since it was a longer than usual day at work, I ran out of fuel before 11pm and went to sleep, comfortable in knowing I get two straight days off to relax and enjoy some peace and quiet.
Thursday 22 November: I awoke around 10am on this holiday. It was a clear cold day as temps only climbed into the low to mid 20s after a low around zero. I had some oatmeal for breakfast and watched the Packers/Lions game. After the game ended I watched half-interested some movies and just relaxed as I did not want to watch Al-Qaida's team, the Dallas Cocaineboys play the hapless Jets. Brother HBL called and wished me well. I then got into watching a 1991 movie with Hume Cronyn and Fred Savage entitled Christmas on Division Street about a homeless man befriended by a teenager. Then surprisingly I got a call from Brant inviting me over to join him and his family for dinner. I had understood that they would be going out of town for the day but they changed their plans and decided to stay in town. I headed over around 6pm , enjoyed a wonderful tasty feast with all the fixings, engaged in some nice conversation, watched some of the Avalanche game after seeing both football games were routs, and headed home around midnight on a bitterly cold night. I checked my email and blog and saw my thoughtful youngest sister LAC left a warm caring message. I went to bed around 1:15am.
Friday 23 November: Eating that great dinner Thursday night let me sleep deeply and uninterupted until after 1oam. I awoke and watched the Colorado/Nebraska game and kept up with Delaware/Delaware St. I switched over to the Wyoming/Colorado St game after 12noon, listening to the play-by-play on radio with Dave Walsh and Kevin McKinney of the Wyoming radio network (two great guys I met a number of years back) and kept up with Louisiana St/Arkansas. After that I watched the remainder of the Texas A&M/Texas game. It was mostly cloudy day and still cold as temperatures reached the mid to upper 20s with virtually no wind. We finally start to warm up on Saturday and melt the 2" of snow still on the ground and elsewhere including the bed of my truck. As day turned into evening I had some pumpkin pie for dinner and a little later I had two chicken patty sandwiches. I watched the Hawaii/Boise St football game which was entertaining and well -played as most of the games this Friday had favorable results. I started to watch the movie "Casino" before going to bed around 1am.
Saturday 24 November: A full day at work with a starting time one hour earlier and the workday did not finish up until after 5:30 pm. After having to deal with the hassle of getting out of downtown because of the Christmas Parade closing streets and disrupting traffic, I then went to the post office to mail my electric bill and pick up the mail. In that mail was a card for Thanksgiving from youngest sister LAC and she enclosed some recent photos of her daughters. It was very kind and thoughtful of her to send me this as I largely get no mail except utility bills, bank statement, and lots of junk mail that sometimes contains coupons for free food. After I got home around 6:15, I rested and watched some college football (Kansas/Missouri; Auburn/Alabama; & Washington St/Washington), and listened in to the Wyoming/Wichita St basketball game on the radio. It turned out to be a warmer day with sunny skies and temperatures reaching over 40 degrees after three straight days below freezing. Some more snow did melt but there is still a good quantity that still is sitting in many places and the streets have ice on them in areas where the sunshine is limited. I realized I went all week without going out for a meal I had to pay for. So I ate in at home once again as I had a salad for dinner and some cream of mushroom soup. The long day resulted in me being quite tired so I went to bed around 10pm after I surfed and caught up on my email, websites, and blog.
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