Looking bad for the Short Bus

The last three people who were getting invited onto the Short Bus confirmed the would go. So Andy told me it is looking bad for me to go, but I did talk to him on the air and he said I can still show up just in case someone drops out at the last minute. I plan on doing that.

I got to work and I was supposed to work out with Jason today, but a meeting was called when I was supposed to be there. So I called Jason and let him know I was not going to be there. I went to the meeting. I found out one of the guys I work with had his father die last night. After the meeting I went back to work on the bugs we talked about in the meeting.

Around two pm I went with Terry to this employee's house to get his computer set up so he could get stuff off of it. But we were unable to do so, so Terry took the computer to his house. I drove Terry to the bus station in Bellevue. On the way Terry was talking about some of the problems with society. He was talking about the distribution of wealth and how it is way out of balance.

He talked about five of the top ten richest people are from the Walton family of Walmart fame. He said that when the frames made the constitution they had inheritance taxes to make it so the same people did not have all the money and different family's would be rich and not rich so there would always be new and vibrant people running the country. That is not the way it is anymore. He talked about the police are not there to fight crime as much at they are there to keep those who have the money from losing it. If you look at places like Seattle, LA, Detroit, Washington D.C., and other large cities there are already places where the police have no control. It will only be a matter of time before that spreads.

As America keeps shrinking the middle class the extremely wealthy will be close to losing everything to those who have nothing. I would think he is more or less talking about a class warfare. It was a pretty bleak picture. Our government and military rely on things made over seas. Think about that our safety is reliant on what is made outside of the country and made in places like China, Japan, and other places. That is not in our best interest.

I went back to work after getting some lunch at the Three Pigs. I ate a late lunch early dinner at my desk and got on G-Shack. I had about two-hundred and forty posts to get to ten-thousand. Richard was twelve away from getting one-thousand. People thought I would beat Richard. But he was so close I wanted to get closer to ten-thousand. I started to post and things were flying. It turned out that I got all I needed for ten-thousand. I posted a super long post acknowledging each person on the Shack I had interacted with since the beginning.

Then I went to THF to do my twenty minutes of cardio. I got on the elliptical trainer. I did my time on that and did some lifting. Then I went home and heated up dinner. I watched some TV before finally going to bed.