Back on the chain gang

http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-cover22-2009feb22,0,2705204.story
Interesting and helpful with actual information which I can find. Unlike certain websites run by government agencies.

The upshoot is that if I keep filing forms with correct information then I should be fine.

However, it appears that filing to reopen a claim is either (a) a mystical experience, and the process that can be told to me is not the True Process or (b) so obvious and simple that everybody already knows and why would you need to explain such a thing?

We Have Questions!

And it's not even Friday!

My mom has a friend who says she's getting paid unemployment benefits to go to school through NAFTA and that I should hop on that train. What research I've done so far indicates that this is not for me. Does anybody have a confirmation or a denial?

Has anybody had experience driving a truck with an automobile hitched behind? Is it full of suck? Do you hardly notice so long as you don't have to back up?

Adult content and pondering

So there's this commercial. And it bugs me a little. It's that MacDonalds "We sell coffee" commercial where the guy wanders through his day blearily mumbling "Don't talk to me. I haven't had my coffee yet." And everybody backs away in quiet reverence. "Oh man, yeah, no coffee. We'll just wait until later." And I have this thing about the exalted status of coffee in our society, probably because it tastes like hot mud and smells like something got left on the stove too long. So I wondered. What if it weren't the holy Coffee that he needed in order to function, and instead he threw up his hand and dismissed people saying "Don't talk to me. I haven't had a blow job yet."