A Week of Funerals

The blog post was still showing "Skeletons from the Closet".

This was the week of funerals.  Aretha Franklin had an eight hour funeral on Saturday where President Clinton spoke and Stevie Wonder and others performed.  There was a whole lot of frensiac gospel singing.  Detroit was Aretha's home town.  And of course Mc Cain had three funerals.  One of them was back in Arizona where Joe Biden spoke.  Paul Ryan spoke at one.  In today's funeral President Obama spoke a bit self cousciously and trying to make with the humor.  George Bush gave the best speech of those who spoke today.  Henry Kissinger spoke and he has really aged.  But then again it's been a really long time since I've seen him on TV, like maybe forty years.  Lieberman spoke and they sang a few hymns.  It was an uplifting experiance in that cathedral.  Of course all of this eulogizing and celebrating of lives has kept president Trump out of the headlines.  There will be plenty of time to get back to that next week. 

In terms of my personal finances this is the first time in almost exactly ten years where I haven't had my back financially up against the wall.  I'd like to keep it that way for a while.  That billing arrangement I may have mentioned went through and my personal checking account is no longer tapped for internet expenses.  Otherwise I don't have that much to say today.