Writer's Block: Who will you be?

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Have you any idea how difficult it is in these parts to find a suitable peaked cap to convert to a Fifty Mission Crush so I can cosplay Blackhawk or the Sky Master? I've been trying for YEARS.

The Nightmare That Stole Christmas

...or Santa Claus Has Left The Building.

The smallest of the three Christmas-All-Year-Round stores on Route 66 is history and another business is moving in. Noticed this on my way back to Rather Manor after visiting Aleks in hospital. (More about him later.)

The economic pundits are saying the recession is over on Wall Street and the recover will filter down to Main Street in a quarter or two. Well, what I see is that small businesses are still failing, and people are still being put out of their jobs, and there is no relief for the desperation of the workers whose jobs are in a precarious day-to-day state.

The pundits are counting on the Christmas buying season to pull everybody through. It won't work if nobody has money because nobody has income.

Aleks

Saw him a couple hours ago. The hospital moved him from the semi-private ward to a ward upstairs where he has his own room; it's quieter and cushier. His nurses were sponge-bathing him when I arrived so I had to spend an awkward quarter hour waiting for them to finish and set him in a more presentable manner. And then there was some sort of glitch with his equipment while I was reading to him. It was resolved quickly, but I was partly scared and partly horrified. But these people know their jobs and he's very well cared for. I read him an article from the weekly newspaper, the one he had been reading himself as often as he could. But his state seemed to be more sleepy this time than it was in the previous time I'd seen him. I don't know what to make of that.

FP

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