Friday was bike to work day. For me it is often bike to not work day. I participate in the activities but take the day off. You can go here and see pics taken by the WABA crew. I am in one of them. Can you find me?
Update with a hint: It is the second half. I am wearing a yellow jersey and if I didn’t know it was me I am not sure I would have recognized it.
We see in the news now that the medical companies are on board for getting medical costs down.
Are any of you as skeptical as I am?
Let me just go back to basic economics. Since there are so many people out there that extol the virtues of capitalism why don’t we go with a quote from the free market philosopher himself.
“People of the same trade seldom meet together, even for merriment and diversion, but the conversation ends in a conspiracy against the public, or in some contrivance to raise prices.” Adam Smith
Are you familiar with the country song by Suzy Bogguss called “Letting Go”? It’s a drippy song about a child moving out and the parents letting go. This post is nothing like that touching song.
This is about Andrew coming up with an idea for moving out. He just let his parents in on this idea last week. He wants to buy an old cargo van and live in it on the street. Not quite homeless but almost.
I think that I showed great restraint when he presented this plan. I am showing great restraint as I write this.
He has researched this on the web. He says he can get a gym membership for a place to shower. He will live on non-perishable dry goods and eat out.
I told him that we should put this out as a poll so his siblings and family and friends could weigh in.