Daily Irritations and Other Thoughts

I decided to try my hand at this while wondering how to vent my frustration with those little things in life that I find irritating if not down right perplexing. Althought this didn't start recently I have to credit Charles Jaffe, a columnist at Marketwatch.com, with making me give this serious consideration. He wrote a column about how an oil firm that just reported BILLIONS of $$$$ in profit for the prior 3 months had been hounding him for a credit card payment after the check went astray during delivery. He had an avenue to vent his frustration and let the world know what he had experienced - I didn't. Not that I have a beef with any oil companies at this particular moment but it relates to many other firms that I do have relationships with.

I actually have a bit of envy for the oil companies. When I was a youngster I thought I would be RICH if I could come up with an idea that garnered me $1 from every American. (As with most Americans I had/have a very American centric view of the world that sometimes imposes limits.) I never came up with this idea but I was reminded of it when I saw that 2 of the big oil firms had earned $19 billion between them for the prior quarter of the year. That translates into their garnering $1 from every person on the planet for 3 months in a row. In reality they garnered a lot more since that was strictly profit but in my originally theory of getting rich that $1 was profit as well. This has truly expanded my horizons and made me realize I must think much bigger going forward.