The last day in February is today and in some ways it's like the ending of winter. Here in the state we usually go by Dec 1 to February 28 as our winter, once March comes around we begin to think spring. Which means we go from icestorms and snowstorms to tornados and the rainy season that tends to flood the basement. Spring also means the forthcoming of birds, building their nest all over the foundation of the house and with the arrival of the dammed redwings divebombing anything that moves another sign of spring forthcoming.
This winter hasn't been the bitch like last year's was. Snow from Thanksgiving to April 1st, only to see it melt away by 10 inch rainfalls and contributing to the historic flood of last year that which I doubt we'll recover in this lifetime. Thankfully this winter after decemeber the training of snowstorms finally stopped and after a cold spell of 36 below one night this winter was much better getting around than last. No more repeat of 60 inches of snows and 25 inches of rain in may.
We been through a lot it seems, with a lousy economy done in by 6 years of Republican Me Myself and I's and two years of Nancy Pelosi and her in it for herself idealogy. And it seems like each and every company in town is following one another by laying people off left and right and the big idea is to include a one cent option tax. Funny how we wanted change back 2006 and we got it all right, but in the wrong direction. The flood didn't do shit for anybody but make most of CR a dark and creepy place where abandoned or unliveable houses remain and made this new government CR as inept as Moe Larry and Curly running this town. The Taxacrats keep trying to tax every damn thing they can think of, while the Republicants sit on their big fat merry go round and do nothing but bitch about how the Taxacrats got us into this mess. As I said before, 2008, Mother Nature did her damnest to destroy this Cedar Rapids but Kay Halloran and company seem to be doing a fine job of that themselves.
It seems that the only place that seems to be doing anything good is our friends at Kaplin University, formerly Hamilton Business College to which in this Great Depression 2, all you see everywhere is billboards for Kaplin, even e-commericals from Kaplin are online and on the afternoon television shows to which you will see no fewer than at least 10 commericals touting the wonderous things that Kaplin can do with you. I can't find a job cuz I got no expierence, got no expierence cuz I got no Job. I'm so tired, I hate my job bla bla bla. So, spend 5,000 more dollars per year to get a worthless two year degree like I did when I went to HBC, now Kraplin University. One year of worthless computer programming that didn't get me squat but a temp job that eventually became the job that I'm at today. Thanks to Kraplin University I'm now a Print Operator 2 and I owe it all to Kraplin University. RIIIIIIIGHT.
It's not that I don't care much for Kraplin or Kaplin but rather their commercials are so dammed annoying that you can't help but firebomb the damn place for flooding tv with their worthless rhetoric. The business world is cut throat and a two year Kraplin degree won't even get you in to even clean the fucking toilets at these places. And with the downturn of places to work, there isn't much to consider since they won't pay you more than 9 bucks an hour and you're paying back a loan for worthless courses. I'm sure Kaplin is alot better teaching things now than HBC did back in my day. Out of all the 35 computer programmers that gradurated, only one did get a job soon after while the rest of us ended up going the temp route or still work two jobs to pay off their damn debt to HBC. And so Kaplin has all this income to flood radio and TV and the net to promote their programs, to show dumbwitted 20 somethings about I CANT GET A JOB on these commericals and we all know these talented actresses and actors have never set foot into Kaplin. They wouldn't know Kaplin from Ebonics. But in this day and age Kaplin has all these wonderful programs that could make you become a security guard up at my place of work for 5000 a year, so you can make 7.50 an hour guarding our workplace.
And you'd think that in this depression and age we would get better workers?!? Seems like our temp pool gets dumber and dumber as the years progress on. Appently, somebody in the other department was smoking a joint in the smoke shack, another gang banger was drinking a 40 Oz in the parking lot. If that's the case, well if they came from Kraplin University, we're certainly getting our money's worth from these halfwits.
Perhaps Kaplin isn't that bad but then again, it's nothing different than what Kirkwood is putting out. And Kirkwood is probaly cheaper but one could probaly sue Kraplin for false advertising for not getting you that quality job in computer programming. But in this day and age, you're probaly laid off from computer programming since that none of the CEOs and big shots don't take their own pay cut for the sake of the company.
You're on your own. And that's the one thing that Kaplin doesn't teach you after you get your diploma from there.
