Vacation time

Dare I say that all three of today's bowl games were entertaining?  Shame BGSU lost, but Toledo defeating a team from a power conference...well, that is good for the MAC, at least.  Not that I had the TV on all the time, but while I was doing stuff here and when I was out and about...  anyways, today was a good day, not as productive as I wanted, but... we expected that.  Finally caught up on J!, went in the attic, got some stuff down for donation (one nice thing about running a food pantry, a ready place to take stuff), got some other things ready for the trash and to give away, watched a brief documentary, off to the gym, to my sister's for leftovers, and then home for some catch-up on work.  I do need to watch more stuff, do more work, and try to clean more of the house, but... I guess I am off from work, so I can do... more work?  Yes!

One bit of good news -- I crossed my 50 book threshold, and am now at 51.  Rah.  50 was Prisoners of the Japanese -- about the POW experience in WWII -- and 51 was When McKinsey Came to Town, about the role (poor!) they have played in all sorts of crises and catastrophes.  In each case, I was all for immediately stringing them up, which may be extreme, but not completely so.  In the meantime, I moved on to 52, the new -- and sadly timely -- biography of Rickey Henderson by Howard Bryant.  I just started, so he is still in Oakland in high school, but it is interesting so far.

Inflation was the cause, not the result, of the ‘hot’ labor market, research shows | CNN Business
Dare I say this is correct -- namely, that as firms had to staff up after the pandemic, they had to hire people, and on top of already higher costs they had to pay more in wages.  And yet...I can't help but think that part of the surge in the labor market was due to the fact that people had to go back to work to cover all of these higher costs -- that, or they went out and got new and better jobs, so people at the bottom at the wage scale saw a boost as they filled those roles.  On the other hand, though, lots of costs were due to material scarcity, and someone have seen that coming.  That they did not is why will we have a President Trump again, and I guess that is...ok?