9/4

There has been thousands of people come past our house via the water in the last couple days, and more with probably some of the same again, going by again this morning. With gas as high as it is I'd say there are a hell of a lot of rich folks and/or some plain folks that aren't very worried about tomorrow or about having anything stuck back to help dampen the drudgeries of old age. I would think one could do a lot of more exciting and safer things elsewhere on the money that's spent riding up and down the lake.

If you look at a 50/60 thousand dollar investment in a boat that begins losing value the minute you accept ownership and then buy that three dollar per gallon gas to make it go, you've got a huge losing outlay. Add storage, winterizing and all the other necessary incidentals and the word dumb begins to glow with stupid doing a slow intermittent flash.

Now think about it: If a person owns a boat, he can hope to use it about seven months out of the year is he crowds both ends a little. Say he makes it to the boat every weekend, which he won't, but say he does, that would be about 28 days. Then he spends everyday of his two week vacation with the boat, which he won't, would be another 14 days. A total of 42 days out of 365. Starting to look a little dumb? If he was to use the boat for four hours each of these days he would accumulate around 168 hours use. Figuring only an average available daylight usage time of eight hours he would use the boat for a grand total of 21 days. Not counting anything else, taxes fuel etc, on a $50,000 boat, his cost per day would run him around $2381 per day of use. If he kept it for five years before updating it would still cost him around $476 per day. The stupid word is beginning to flash a little isn't it?

And the big deal for most, is to just pull a couple of kids on a tube of sorts, up and down a dangerous cove trying to dodge all the other idiots doing the same thing as well as the huge twin engine jobs zipping in and out. Makes for a pretty dangerous outing I think. I've lost my interest in thinking about this but I have enough left to ask, how many safe Six Flags, Disney Worlds and all the other forms of entertainment can a family participate in for $10,000 per year. I'd bet a full years entertainment wouldn't even cost the $10,000 leaving quite a bit to poke away for drudgery dampening in later years.

This boring waste of time is due to the fact we find ourselves old, without a job and in a poor financial state but still may or may not be the true feelings of the writer. The math may be a little off too but if I want to send a note near every day, something has got to be typed. Nothing is nothing whether it be a blank page or something typed by me but there could be no expectations in a blank page. Life without any expectations of some kind would be a sorry thing indeed.