Welcome to 2025!

 Welcome to the second week of 2025! What a fantastic year this has been so far! And by fantastic, I mean most people are still trying to figure out what the hell is going on. The world has become a crazy place. I think most of this crazy started during 2020 with the whole "COVID" thing. That's way in the past though, and this blog is supposed to be about 2025.  Here in 2025 it's suddenly really hard to find good employees. Actually, it's getting hard to find any employees at all. No one wants to work anymore. And the few people that do want to work, seem to want to just show up and get a paycheck. They don't want to do anything! Is this a real thing? What the hell happened to our society that made all these people so lazy? Here in the lovely US the state of New Jersey passed a law that went into effect January 1, 2025. This law now states;  Teachers in New Jersey will no longer be required to pass a basic reading, writing and mathematics test to be eligible f...

 Welcome to 2025! We survived New Year's Eve. At least, I did. I was up watching tv to see the new year arrive. I watched a local television channel so I could see the new year come to Las Vegas. Was it fun? Not really. It was just news casters at casinos going on and on about how fabulous everything was on the Las Vegas Strip. It looked crowded and noisy to me. A lot of stupid people getting drunk who will be found all over hotels passed out in hallways later on. They don't show that part on television.  Anyway, what does the new year mean to me? I spent a bit of time thinking about a few things that we lost. Computer things, really. For 2025 I found something I wanted. I would like a brand new Apple Mac mini with the M4 CPU chip! Those look so neat! I won't be getting one because I don't need it, and there would really be nothing to do with it the the Mac I'm typing this on can't do. I can't just toss out this iMac because it's old! The M4 chip has a l...