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 Good Afternoon Folks,we started the day with some nice weather, but now it is rather dull outside, with an odd spell of rain - time to stay inside and do some armchair model railroading. My Mom is still very weak - there is no improvement. I am afraid, that she has lost her will to fight. What eats me up, is, that we do not have enough money to pay for the gas to go there. No news about that job, I am still condemned to wait for the hopefully positive answer. That would certainly help a lot to get things moving in the right direction. At the moment I just have a hard time to see the light on the end of that big black tunnel I am in.Garry - people never learn! There has been many attempt in history to form currency unions and all of them failed after a short time. A currency union without a political union is doomed right from the beginning. Countries like Greece, Portugal, Spain and Italy never played by the rules set forth in the agreements. As a result, we Germans have to pay the bill - like always in the last 55 years. Germany is the biggest payer into the coffers of the European Union and much of our national debt (in fact, all of it) can be owed to that. We did not only have to shoulder the tremendous cost of the unification with East Germany, but also pay for the development of the countries I mentioned earlier. Germans are no people to take their wrath on the roads, like the French do. Lenin once stated, if the Germans were to make a revolution on a train station, they would buy platform tickets to be able to enter. Hitler was elected, because people were tired of the fighting between the Reds and the Browns in the streets of Berlin in the 1920´s, fostered by a weak government and the economical crisis following the Black Friday. Without "Outside Help" of the Allied Forces, we would not have been able to get rid of him, despite the over 100 attempts. The fall of the Berlin Wall was also not caused by the declared will of the people of East Germany, but a result of the weakness of the former Soviet Union and Gorbachev´s address to Honecker to just help himself, if things were getting to be rough. So we just end up paying. Some see this as continuing reparation payments ... [:-^] No idea, where this will all end. The European Union and the Euro are as dead as the Dodo, but nobody dares to say that, as long as Germany is still able to pump money into that system. But for how long?We have to open up the list of missing people - PC, Keith, where are you?Zoe, I´ll have a glass of milk, please.  Edit:Todd - is this the one?<img src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/99/Plymouth_Roadrunner.jpg" mce_src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/99/Plymouth_Roadrunner.jpg" width="700" height="405">
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