Offspring Update-

Well, kids; ya gotta love them. I suppose. I've seen both my boys today, one of them is standing here in my living room right now. Its the youngest that's here at the house. He has turned my carport into a Geo Tracker depot repair facility- just today and he figures the repairs are going to carry through the next 2-4 days, which means he is staying over, eating from my fridge and overloading my laundry machines. He's unemployed, so he has the time to work on the car and his plans include a new front axle, new brakes and calipers and a turbocharger installation, complete with an entirely new exhaust system that may or may not get the catalytic converter and his Cherry Bomb muffler reinstalled.

Yeah, he is going to pressurize this high mileage motor with somebody else's homebuilt turbocharger system...

Once he gets all that done and the oil cleaned up out of my carport- then he's going to start looking for a job again. Seems that even though his boss at the Honda store was a pretty laid back guy, he still didn't tolerate repeated tardiness and the boy was sent packing. And he owes the boss $100 to clear his tool truck bill so he can get his tool box unransomed! But he is signed up for 1 class at the University, "You Can Survive College", and he paid for that himself so he's at least doing a little something right.

The older boy's unemployed as well, we just found out about that last night and had dinner with him tonight. He was working at a telephone assistance and reservation agency for a bunch of the big hotel chains but then he got too busy assisting other employees to help his own customers so they sent him packing. And he was broke enough after paying his bills to not have gas money to go job hunting. So tonight I bought dinner and slipped him some grocery and gas money so he can get out to find another job.

He had also been broke up with and now back together with the girlfriend so I hope he has solved the problems in that department.

What is it with these kids anyway? Neither of my two care much at all if they go unemployed and I just don't understand that. Youngest told his mom that he went camping for a week after getting fired since he needed a break after working hard all summer! Imagine that, all summer! Both of these boys are perfectly capable of working and doing very well, but they don't want to. The oldest almost looks like Charlie Manson with his hair all blown out and a chrome stud sticking out of his chin and green ear gauge plugs showing out from under the died hair. I wouldn't hire him to work at 7-11 if it were me doing the hiring but he doesn't think his appearance makes any employment difference.

All this just goes so against my experience and beliefs that its hard for me to accept. From my days in high school I have almost never been unemployed. I'll bet the total number of days of unemployment I've had since I graduated HS is less than 45. I always either had another job already aligned before leaving a job or I got up every day and job hunted until my unemployment circumstance changed. Its just what a guy did when I was growing up. My boys do not share that same ethic and I find it really frustrating.

But, they are both healthy and seemingly in good spirits so I guess I shouldn't complain too much. As long as the oil and grease gets cleaned up out of my carport!