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I hope you all had a happy and safe 4th of July holiday, for those of you who were able to celebrate it. I read in the news that many places in the states had to cancel their fireworks shows because of the depression. We were planning to go to one here in Anderson, but the parents got into another one of their moods in which they'll make plans for something and then not do it. Instead, we went down to Iva to buy fireworks of our own to shoot off, and got probably more than we ever have because they were so cheap. I was startled by how wildly the prices of fireworks varied this year. Earlier in the week, I was able to pick up a bargain bag at the fireworks stand in the Wal-Mart parking lot for $20. That same $20 got me a whole shrink wrapped set of various fireworks, and then some in Iva.  We had a lot of fun, and even the parents got involved in actually shooting off the fireworks, something they've been doing rather infrequently since my brother and I have gotten older. To help celebrate, we also saw the new Transformers movie, Revenge Of The Fallen.

Now, Revenge got lambasted by reviewers, globally. I do not think I can remember a film that was so universally hated by critics (I'm pretty sure that the Star-Wars prequels had some decent reviews, though it probably depended on where you looked). Honestly, I can see why the critics hated this film...but I still found the movie to be rather enjoyable. Micheal Bay makes some really odd, questionable directing decisions in this film, and they will be immediately obvious to anyone who takes their movies seriously. But if you can look past the editing decisions and other mistakes of filmmaking, it's still a pretty awesome sequel to a movie that blew all the expectations right out of the water. Transformers fans will probably love it, and casual viewers will most likely enjoy it too. Serious movie watchers, on the other hand, are probably better off seeing something else.

Oh, and by the way...Linkin Park? They're definitely going alternative.

Not sure if I mentioned it in a recent post, but I've been told that I can work at the Vocational Rehab indefinitely. This is good in the way that I'll be earning money until X time in the future. It's bad in the way that it isn't an actual job; no benefits, no vacation, not enough pay to really live on...Just enough to get me by. I really need to try and do better than this, but I don't have much of a choice right now.

And the depression just keeps getting worse. I'm hearing now that the US Postal Service will be the next business that we'll lose. They're closing thousands of post offices, and if Federal Express and other mail transport services can't shoulder the load, in the coming months we'll probably be looking at a shipping crisis. That'll be fun to live through. :/  You know, when I was a little kid, I once predicted that we'd have another Great Depression, although I never dreamed that it'd ever actually happen. Come to think of it, I did make other predictions too, which also came true, but none of those were of any great significance. In any case, I know that the one we're going through now is not on the same level as the first one was, if only because for having lived through the first one, we made legislation to prevent such a thing from happening at the same extent. The system may be horribly broken, but we've still got those safety nets.

Anyhow, I'm doing ok, and actually having some fun out here. The situation isn't progressing so much as it is changing. Things are changing. Hopefully for the eventual better.

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