Come on Japan!

What a world. I'm listening to a news program on radio Japan when a story comes up about Japan's general economic free fall. Apparently they have the highest public debt of any industrialized nation in the free world. This has lead to an increase in suicides and as the business year comes to a close they expect a rash of further suicides as their economic situation is expected to get more serious. Their government is currently trying to drum up interest by offering bonds to foreign countries, but the amount of interest in them depend on whether or not the Japanese government can convince foreign investors that they will be the key to solving Japan's economic crisis.

The report also claimed that last year there was something around 36,000 suicides (don't hold me to that. I believe it's what they said) which is up from around 33,000 in 2008. I looked it up and last year America reported around 33,000 suicides. Consider that their population is less than half the size of ours and you get the general idea of how serious the problem is. Currently their government is running an add campaign that includes TV spots and billboards to help stem the expected tide of fresh suicides. Kind of shocking.

So I opened on a downer and now I'll segue into this. I praise God for helping our family out right on time and just how we needed it. First off my uncle is doing much better. He will probably be in the hospital for another week, but he is in much less pain and will be back to eating solid food soon enough.

Then the Lord blessed us financially. We did not know how we were going to pay this month's rent as we were several hundred dollars shorts. On top of that unemployment had some sort of processing error with my payments and I was unable to receive a dime of benefits for nearly two months so things have been more tight than usual. Well today just before our rent came due nearly eight hundred dollars was deposited into my account giving us what we needed to pay out rent. As if that isn't enough I am getting nearly 400 dollars back on my tax return and will get to keep a hundred dollars of it so drinks are on me when the money comes in.

Now all I need is a place that will actually hire me.

As those that follow me on Facebook might have caught I'm thinking that learning Morse code is kind of like having some one stab you in the brain with a stick. Without the radio to sort of filter out most of the harshness of beeping it can get on your nerves to sit down for 10 minutes at a time listening to random beeps. Well more to come. Just thought I would share my good news with ya'll.

My 5 year old niece wrote and directed this with my help.