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My brother and his wife are educators with a little over 25 years in the system. My brother got his masters over summers and holidays in some accelerated program about 5 years ago and has gotten 2 promotions in management since then. He told me that if he teaches 2 more years and then he and his wife retire.
They will receive 10k a month plus healthcare for life.
They will be 49 or 50 when they retire.
When he first started teaching, and told me what he made. I remember thinking, I couldn’t live on that. He should find a better job.

Now I wish I’d had the foresight to look ahead 25 years

I haven’t watched network television in years. Unless it’s a sporting event. I would imagine all of their numbers are way down.
When my television is on, I’m normally watching one of the streaming apps. I watch good movies and series. I take that back. I watched the history channel some. Still love American pickers and a few other shows.
Use my phone for news

I looked up the ice age subject about 6 years ago. Of course Noaa popped up. I distinctly remember it saying 8000 years to the next ice age. I guess maybe it said 8-10,000. I looked again before I typed and it just says 10,000 now. Not sure what changed.
Obviously climate changes. With or without us.
The majority of deserts were once oceans.
Much of the worlds land was once covered in glaciers.
I read a book written by Obama’s undersecretary for Science, US department of Energy called “Unsettled”
I highly recommend reading it.
Spoiler alert. He says there is nothing we can do about climate change except, Maybe we can slow it down by a fraction.
It would be much more practical to start devoting the trillions of dollars being spent fighting climate change on preparing our world to endure and exist with the inevitable.

I will try the banner thing shortly, I followed the other steps and the screen would eventually say error. It was shortly after we got the email, so I thought maybe the system was overwhelmed. I do my actual upgrade May 6 at 11:50 am. The picture of the stadium would pop up then error popped up right afterwards.

Can we add Jaw dropping and bombshell !?

I’ve actually spent a couple of years locked up.
It is relatively comfortable and safe compared to what I’ve read and heard about the old days.
Every person in CCC in Caddo parish gets an IPad. They lay in their bunks all day and watch movies. And I can assure you that it is COLD. Inmates complain nonstop about how cold they keep it in there.
Now head over to Plain dealing to the Bossier Parish pea farm and you don’t get the luxury of A/C. When it’s hot, they put a giant fan in front of the dorm. It takes very little time to adjust to the heat.
My home didn’t have air-conditioning when I was growing up. As a matter of fact, no a/c in elementary school and my high school didn’t get air-conditioning until my sophomore year. I’m 55 years old to put that in perspective.
Red River Parish jail was probably my favorite. You had more freedom than most jails and they fed you a lot better.
CCC you’re locked down about 22 hours a day with two other guys in a small Cell. Unless you get in programs dorm, which is considered a privilege. That’s the one for people who say they’re trying to sober up. Then you get out of your cell a lot more.
Pea farm in Plain Dealing you’re in a big wide open dorm with 50 other men so there’s a lot more to do. You can play cards and dominoes and watch TV and work out all day.
Red River Parish, They let you go out and work on the farm and you actually get to wear a T-shirt and blue jeans instead of a jumpsuit you can have tobacco products, watch TV and a use microwave oven
Sure it all sucked and I would’ve rather been free. But I did the crime so I did the time.
You did see a fight every couple of weeks or so.
I learned that if you mind your own business, don’t gamble, and don’t touch the TV. You are relatively safe in there.
Probably the worst part was just listening to all the low IQ people ramble on and on and on. It seemed like they would never shut up.
Oh, and all the budding rappers beating on their lockers for hours on the end was annoying AF
You’d be amazed, how much a person can read. That was my favorite escape.

I have rambled quite a bit here. One of the more shocking things to me was listening to guys talk and they would start a story and use the phrase “when I come back”. They knew they were coming back to jail some day.
Or I would listen to them talk about how they were going to be better criminals

China and Korea does sound dumb. To be honest I was in my early 20’s with a wife and 2 in diapers. Working a lot of hours and going to school full time. So I somehow missed that. I was happy that he balanced the budget for a year. Our national debt stopped growing. I wrote a paper in college about the spiraling national debt and how something had to be don’t about it or we were going to go bankrupt. I believe is was 4 trillion at the time. I sure wish our government would have continued to balance the budget and it was still 4 trillion. It would have hurt, no doubt. We wouldn’t have as many billionaires and some other countries would have had to take care of themselves. It’s going to hurt a lot worse eventually…..

Slick Willlie grew on me. I believe that he thought he was helping our country

I paying $36,000 per year for 3 company trucks, have to carry 1,000,000 in coverage and $6000 a year for 2 personal vehicles full coverage. $5800 homeowners, $9500 warehouse ins, $65,000 general liability for my company more if we have a busy year. Plus work comp based on monthly payroll, $18,500 for life insurance (i bought it later in life so am considered high risk)
I was raised by an attorney, Grandfather was an attorney and I’m all for Tort Reform

When I was a teenager, a friend of mines Dad used talk about life. He told me I would come across people “that were so stupid, that they thought they were smart.” I’m 55 now, probably the age he was when he told me that. Boy was he right.