Very few establishments will take children, which is quite unfair. There’s no reason Pat or James couldn’t perform useful labor for pay.
Sometimes you can get away with it in the summer but I would like to rent one right now for a few days and they are all in school.
Oh, yes there is: Obama.
Not that that's a good reason, but it's turned out plenty potent enough for me. I managed to hang on in Silicon Valley right through the depths of the dot com bust, and then through the bleak months of the recovery that wasn't, but Obamanomics finally got me.
As of Monday — for the first time in over seventeen years — I'm unemployed.
BUT...I'm bulletproof today, because Ashira Rose was born last night! Woo-Hoo! Piccies when I get 'em off the cameramabob.