Soyuz TMA 22 is in orbit, I worked today, and a new restaurant I like.

 The Soyuz TMA 22 spacecraft is in its final hours of it's rendezvous chase of the International Space Station, having completed thirty orbits of the earth, and is closing in on the orbital complex. I've heard of no problems with the spacecraft, and the crew is up now and in the last few hours of its approach and the first few hours of their second day in space.

 I also worked for Century Link on Tennyson and 38th Ave today. Got six hours today, and it was actually a normal fall day, chilly but no killer cold breeze, and sunny and nice. It was an easy workday, with my partner slow paddling eastbounds, and I worked the north-south traffic, waving northbound and southbound traffic around the lane closures, and stopping left turners who could not see around the Century Link van.

 Cat, the man from Century Link and I finished around 1 PM, and I went to catch the bus to go home,when I saw this Mexican restaurant across the street and decided to charge the battery in my laptop and cell phone there, and get something to eat and some coffee.

 This place is called Javier & C, and the food was good, the decor is modern yet rustic, and the waitress was hot and easy on the eyes. She is a younger woman going to college for a nursing certificate, and boy, is she a HOTTIE ! Too bad she has a boyfriend, and too bad I am too old for her too. If was thirty or even twenty years younger, I would be all over her like a rat on a cheeto. It Sucks to be older and fat dumpy and disgusting, I could be such a good man to a hottie younger woman who just had to have me and who had to "save"me. Oh, for that ! Youth is wasted on the young.

 I had a green chili burrito, cinnamon roll, coffee, lots of coffee, and water, and it went down well. I am stuffed and could get along very well not eating till tomorrow morning, I am that full. So my lunch//dinner/supper is taken care of till the morrow.

 Now I have to go home to a cold place, because Xcel turned the power off at Tom's yesterday, and he has no lights or heat, but still has hot water suprisingly enough. So  I boiled some water for coffee this moring, and made some Chili from a pound of ground beef, and ate that before I got the phone call from Joanne to work where I worked at today. Fourteen hours of work so far this week, and I have an assignment for tomorrow at 37th and Tejon for Quest/Century Link at 8:30 AM. Thank God ! - it's been a terrible year financially, and this whole year will be a wash financially I'm sure. So much for the Middle Class life, I fear it's gone like a hook torn off a fishing line by an underwater snag.

 My perception of the Great Depression of the Twenty First century is that the post World War II boom is gone, the various real estate, tech, dot-com, and other speculative booms are long over, and there is no boom other than the Bakken Oil Field in North Dakota and Saskatchewan that pays boomtown wages to skilled, unskilled, and entry level workers all, but that's it for the US and canada. The bottom is out of the barrel, and most of us are struggling to keep our heads above water financially, and many many people like Tom, Cat, and others are suffering terribly from the worldwide depression that is clearly here.

 So today was a respite from the gloomy financial situation I and many others are going thru. I enjoyed the time I spent at Javier & C's, and hope to come back, if for no other reason than to see the hot younger waitress again.