Jobs and that search took a big ‘ol back seat during those days (see previous post, “Life is Good”),  and then Christmas and visits to my parents and hers immediately followed.  The trip to Cincinnati was good.  I saw Larry (the Old St. George guy I have mentioned before) and he bought me lunch and made me a cup of some top notch coffee,  and we spent about 4 hours talking job hunting and such.  NPR had a feature on unemployment that we heard on the way up to Cincinnati on Christmas day,  and we talked about some of that,  and how things are so different now— that all the companies once thought to be so dependable and spelled “security” are dropping like dominoes,  one after another.