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LOL Actually, we're having a nice day here, and I may take a walk. While seeing what used to be a wooded area that has now been bulldozed to make room for more houses is depressing, the overall effect of the walk should make depression less likely for me. If I don't get back to posting, I wish you luck in job hunting this week. If you get an interview, I'd spare them the theory about people enjoying depression. Admittedly, I'm horrible in interviews, but I don't think that theory would help you.

Yeah, I'm with ya, there is an area that used to be a meadow that is now being bulldozed and houses built on it, kind of depressing at my end too. Man this place has sure changed, even from 1985 and a lot more from what I remember of it in 1970. Then again, where I work at, the corporate headquarters for one of the divisions of a major shipping company, used to be clear and if that wasn't there, I wouldn't have a job so I have to take things in context. B-)

North of me in Cranberry, PA, it used to be so rural, my cousin lived there, would have been a nice place to take my .22LR rifle and go shooting but not now, it is so built up, traffic is murder, malls everywhere, you can't swing a baseball bat without hitting a building. I remember when I worked for a truck rental company, we had to run cars up (we did some work for the car division too) to the hotels in Cranberry, it was a circus there even in 1989/91, it is three times as bad now. To get to rural and small town America, I'd have to go as far as Zelinople or Butler, PA. Come to think of it, I remember my grandmother telling stories where her uncle bought a Model T for $13 a month and he used to take her and some of her family up north to Mercer to see some relatives up there. She remembers that U.S. Route 19 was paved up to Zelinople and beyond that, it was a dirt road.

Yep, it's sad to see everything become so crowded. I wish we could go back to a time with fewer people. On the positive side, I had a pretty good walk. I should have taken my binoculars because the birds were very active. I saw numerous yellow-rumped warblers, an orange-crowned warbler, an eastern meadowlark, some cardinals, some mockingbirds, and a big raptor that I didn't see well enough to identify. I saw some other species as well but couldn't identify them without binoculars.

Bill