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...

 Getting ready for 2025 I can't believe it's almost 2025. It seems like it was just the 1980's! I must really be getting old now. Where are all the flying cars? I saw the movie Back to the Future and Marty traveled to October 21, 2015, and there were flying cars and all kinds of modern things. Where the hell are they? That was over nine years ago! I can't even find a 1980's cafe! We do have some modern things that people were dreaming about back in the 1960's, like running water. Ha ha ha, yes, I'm kidding the really old people! I was born in the 60's. Back then they dreamed of things like "universal translators" so you could talk to anyone. Now we do seem to have some things that can do that. I know Google Translate can translate languages for me.  Look at this!  Amazon.com : Language Translation Earbuds, 3-in-1 Translator Earbuds 144 Languages & Accents, Translator Device Translation Earbuds Real Time fit iOS & Android for Travel Busi...