Yesterday, we found out that Cici's Pizza was not only closed but disappeared from old Kohl's Plaza. We dealt with a heartbroken six year old, and I do mean heartbroken. So we went to the Mounds Mall Pizza Hut. The wife remembers they have a buffet. The wife thinks buffets work better with the kids and I do not. I kept my mouth shut. Hard enough to get the youngest to eat anything. After that, I had to deal with a wife who thoroughly pissed about Pizza Hut's pizza slight acquaintance with edibility.
Eating in a lot - worst time of the year to be practicing law and Christmas presents sucked up the rest of the money. I notice the old Penguin Point has a sign announcing an American Indian restaurant. Seems to me that sign has been up for a month. So maybe Tandoori chicken comes to Anderson? Not seeing much progress at the store, though. If it does open and stays open, then maybe we will see that Anderson is not such a hamburger town.
The kids keep agitating to go back to The Pitt on 19th Street and MLK. Anybody else been there? If not, get yourself there now.
We have a new pizza place at Madison Avenue and 5th Street. Good pizza - not that watery sauce on top of soggy dough that is Art's Pizza. Had their pepperoni and I got to say it is damned good pizza. Sorry about that, I have been having Twin Peaks flashbacks the past two weeks.
Any resolutions for the New Year? I must lose about forty pounds but I have been resolving that since July. Not having much luck. Stop bleeding so much red ink from the practice. Working on that, too. Just wish what I see going on in the wider economy did not keep me on the brink of depression. Reading stuff like Top economist says America could plunge into recession in the London Times helps not one bit.
Robert Shiller, Professor of Economics at Yale University, predicted that there was a very real possibility that the US would be plunged into a Japan-style slump, with house prices declining for years.
Professor Shiller, co-founder of the respected S&P Case/Shiller house-price index, said: “American real estate values have already lost around $1 trillion [£503 billion]. That could easily increase threefold over the next few years. This is a much bigger issue than sub-prime. We are talking trillions of dollars’ worth of losses.”
If the article correctly calls this a bubble, then that is two bubbles in ten years? What is going on? Where are the calm heads of finance - snorting coke like rock stars? I know there is a lot of money out there that needs to go somewhere but the need to make mega-bucks out of handling that money seems to attracting greedily stupid pinheads.
Would like to have seen Ockomon sworn in. Still waiting for the landlord.
I guess I shot my off to the wrong person when I told Tim Lanane that I did not see much difference in how Ocokomon would lead on economic development. I got to remember that not many people read what I write and so I took myself out of context. Which seems a bit surreal when I write it like that. My point remains and I will be willing to be called on this - if I am still around in a year. Ockomon will follow the trend started by Smith taking us away from the automotive industry. There will be a difference in style and emphasis but the worries of some that electing a Democrat meant a return to the days of Lawler and reliance on Detroit will turn out unfounded.
On the other hand, the armed robbers keep running about and I seem to have come in sort of with two of them. Last Thursday, the kids and I were leaving Wing On Inn after lunch when this police car started cruising around the parking lot of the old Mark Motor Inn. Later, I found out someone hit the Low Bob's Tobacco Store. (By the way, Wing On Inn has a buffet but it also still has its regular menu. That leaves it, China House in the T Way Plaza - or the Big Lots Plaza or the Hills' Plaza, Golden House on Meridian Street, and the Chinese place on the west side as the only sit down Chinese places in town that is not solely a buffet. Wing On Inn has the best buffet in town - food is not as cold but then it is not a mile long buffet either. Check these other places out - each one has good prices and most of them have been in Anderson longer a lot of other businesses).
When an armed robber hit Harvest Market on Columbus Avenue, they had a police car with its lights on in the parking lot of Los Compadres. That is the Mexican grocery at 38th and Columbus. (If you want to find the stuff to make real Mexican food at home - go to Los Compadres. They also have Pepsi in glass bottles. They fascinate my step-kids who were born after glass soda bottles went the way of the white buffalo.)
Muncie has a similar problem. Bandit robs VP overnight. Maybe the same people have got the same idea: pretend we got a gun, get some money and pay the rent. I do think this is the better economy touted by Mitch Daniels.
The landlord showed up. So I am going to call an end to this post. Ia m sure it will have to be a better year. If the value of Indiana keeps declining, what will Mitch Daniels have to offer for sale? The auctioneer in chief needs some thing to sell (see TDW's Still For Sale: Guv Says He'll Try, Try Again To Pawn Off The Lottery), so he better pump our value this year.
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