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 I start a new job 10 hours from now, and this will result in a lot less content. 

The last job was at a car dealership, where the amount of work depends on the number of customers, which is why I, and many others, were laid off 7 months ago.

I never heard back from them, and unemployment runs out, so I was very motivated to get a job, and I was lucky to get one now, with only 3 months of unemployment left (there was an unexpected 4 month extention, as things never got better in the job market, in just the last 2 weeks, Regal laid off 20,000 workers, Disney laid off 40,000)

The last job was as a photographer at a car dealership, for 6 years, and it was great. As I was saying the work load depended on the customers, so there was time with nothing to do, for most employees there, the drivers who pick up or drop off customers in the service dept, the parts dept, the salesmen, the lube oil techs, there's a lot of people at a car dealership that have no work if there are no customers, and I had lots of time to add to the blog... and it was great while it lasted, but nice things don't last. 

I'll be getting back to factory work, repairing and testing stuff, and believe it or not, it's a pay cut. Probably because new hires don't get paid much at any job, no matter how qualified, over qualified, or desperately needed they are. It has been like that at every job I've had, you start getting bless than your old job, but get a pay raise at the 6 month mark the 1 year, the 2 year, and the 5 year mark. 

Or maybe it's just the glut of unemployed creating a moment when there's no reason to pay more than the lowest a company can, in order to increase profits and increase stockholder dividends. Stockholders always are a higher priority than employees, at every corporation I've worked for, Time Warner, Raytheon, Lockheed Martin, Solar Turbines, It's obvious, just look and see who gets catered meetings. 

Anyway, the new job means I'm no longer sitting in quarantine keeping busy adding to the blog, watching tv, and other stuff I'm working on, so, 9 or 10 less hours a day than the past 6 years of blogging. 

I think it's safe to say there will be no reason to look in a couple times a day to keep up. I won't be anywhere near half as much as I've been posting. 

As always, if anyone wants to hire me full time, and see me get out and roam around to cover events, museums, and random stuff on the streets, they can just let me know and I'll quit punching a time clock