Last night I finished up a 4 day road trip to Meridian to install new PCs for a company that has their home office there. It was an unbelievable crappy situation. I was told by management to only migrate company approved applications and some people had loads of programs that I wasn't supposed to migrate. The fatass top Data Processing guy there couldn't bother to give me a list of printers, IP addresses and the required drivers.

Last night at the Jamison Inn, a hotel that caters to working people with extended stays, I met a whole lot of people who were doing basically the same thing as I was: there's no work at home so you have to go get it.

I saw a special on the history channel about the dust bowl days of the thirties. The term "Dumb Okie" meant anyone from Texas to lower Minnesota who went West in search of opportunities because an extended drought ruined the heartland and turned it into a near desert.

Is this a recovery? I don't think so. The people that I talked to weren't making a killing. They were just getting by.

I look at the corporation that I worked for and the new migrants and see no difference in character.

Except for the lazy prick that ran their data processing department. He was the in-law of the local branch manager. I doubt that he would have to energy to make it on the road. It takes drive and some aggressiveness to get the good gigs. He couldn't keep up with me.

I just wonder how much worse is it going to get before it starts getting any better.