Happiness

I am very happy Sophie is home. I guess it was today the owners came down and found her. They must have called me shortly after getting home. I bet they were excited. I figured the high water would bring her out in the open. Thank god for the high water, eh?

Bad news for Country Coach employees in Junction City. They may close permanently, leaving about 800 people without family wage jobs. Coos County just laid off 22 road crew workers, which is 22 more families without a family wage job.

There just don't seem to be many jobs out there. Well, there's fast food and convenience stores, if you want a minimum wage experience, but it is hard to support one person on minimum wage, let alone more than one. You'd think with all the downturn that rent would go down. Rent takes a huge chunk out of people's paycheck, sometimes half of it or more than half, if you're minimum wage. Why isn't rent reflecting the general economy and going down when so many people are having trouble paying rent I wonder. Maybe because of the mortgage crisis? More demand for rentals?

I suppose when people start vacating rentals for inability to pay such high rents then rental rates will drop. And what is up with utility rates rising, when salaries are going down and jobs are vanishing? What is up with that?

This woman I"ve known awhile, rents rurally. It's a run down shack actually. She's paying more than $600 in rent. The property is junked, too, nothing to do with her, but from the landlords shit and she has to pay that kind of money to live in a run down shack. She took it because she has an old dog and some old cats and I guess there was no deposits charged, which is why she could get into it.

But that place should be renting for $350 tops. I bet she also took it because a shack beats living in some apartment complex, a couple floors up with nothing at all to look at or do, but stare at walls, when not working. She likes to have a garden and go for walks in the country.

Anyhow, I think my whole role in the Sophie thing was some guise by the cat gods who have me enslaved, so Suzy and little Feather wouldn't die out there. I think the god of all doesn't like to see a little kitten starve to death out there, unloved and alone. I like to think that anyhow.

I don't think the god of all would be very happy with those who dump little kittens out to die. I think god of all would or does, if possible, put those sorts of souls through as much hell as possible, at some point in their lives, like I like to think god of all does to all abusers of things smaller or less powerful than they.

I like to think these things anyhow. I like to believe in ultimate justice and karma and that good will tromp evil in the end. Especially, in this case, when a willing cat trapper, intent on creating a happy ending for a lost Siamese and her people, spent some long cold interesting nights in her car, and instead saved a desperate young adult and a starving sad kitten.