Seen a lot of those billboards while riding around town. I think they’re supposed to boost my morale or something but they just make me nervous. Who is paying for them? How are they paying for them? What are they trying to sell? Happy days are here again, I guess.

My neighborhood coffee shop is a vacant storefront now but the empty place next door, that sold used baby clothes, is under renovation. I think it’s a restaurant that’s going to sell something fried. I wonder if the owners know that a D&D and a bakery that was heavy on the sugar both opened and closed on this street within a couple of years.

The Dow is better, if the employment picture improves we will really be on our way, and I won’t have to worry that the billboards are someone’s sense of irony.