Almost famous…

Just once I’d like to get my picture in a publication for something I did that worked.

A couple of months ago I got my picture and story in MSNBC.  Why?  Because I’m failing.  More specifically because I am a small business owner who was hit very hard by the credit crunch.

Today I got my picture taken again, for yet another publication.  Again, because of my impending failure.  The fact that I’m about 4 days from surprise unemployment is just icing on the cake I guess.

I don’t want to be known for my failures.  Lord knows there have been enough of them in my life.

My youth was riddled with them.  My parents could be nothing but disappointed in me.  Repeated the 7th grade, dropped out of the 9th, broke a few laws, went through a few marriages, etc. etc.

It took a while.  It’s said that the longer you go in the wrong direction, the more effort it takes to correct your course.

Well for the past 15 years my course has been “corrected” and no-one has noticed.  But one damned stroke of bad luck and suddenly I’m famous?

Damn