Rant #2,484: Old Days

This black cloud that is hanging over me seems to have no intention of leaving anytime soon.

The latest sprinkle on my wonderful world of unemployment came late yesterday afternoon, but hopefully it will have a happy ending.

Our oven broke, just plain broke down. It does not work anymore, or at least the oven part doesn't, as the burners do work.

But when you turn on the oven, it should just light up, but it doesn't. There is also no smell of gas, so I am hoping that it simply needs a cleaning by a professional. We do clean the oven, of course, but there may be some gunk in there that we do not know about that is preventing the thing from lighting up.

Sure, in the grand scheme of things this is really minor, but if we need a new oven, that is at least $400 out the window.

Let's hope that it is a minor infraction, and that after being looked at, it can be fixed.

This is what happens when your world become literally four walls and you are under a dark cloud.

I simply wish I was under the cloud that Gerrit Cole is under right now. He signed a huge contract with my beloved New York Yankees that will pay him something around $37 million a year for the next almost a decade. I am sure that right now, if his oven went out, he could buy a replacement just like that.

I guess it is nice to feel wanted, and making about $1 million per start kind of makes one feel good, doesn't it?

Me, I am currently making about $70 a day from unemployment, before taxes, of course.

Kind of makes me feel like time has passed me by.

Maybe Cole could use me has his caddy, if he even needs one.

But enough about the maudlin aspects of my life ... isn't there anything happy to talk about?

Well, I look in Yahoo News, where only the top and most important news items are covered, and I see that another seemingly elderly actress is posing in a bikini, showing the world that she still has what it takes at the ripe old age of 55.

Actress Teri Hatcher is the latest over the age female personality to pose in a bikini to show how youthful she really is, or how youthful she thinks she really is at least.

I have to wonder about these women, who don't want you to stare at them but want you to stare at them.

And they think that posting a picture of them in a bikini on social media--or in this case, as a major news story on Yahoo News--will somehow invigorate their dormant acting careers.

Maybe I should take a page from their book, and pose in a bikini on social media to get my dormant work career back on track.

I mean, in their own way, aren't they trying to do exactly what I have been trying to do--interest those in their industry who think they are one foot into the grave to give them a chance?

And age 55? Poof, I was that seven years ago, and it isn't old by any stretch of the imagination.

And neither is 62 for that matter. If Teri Hatcher wants to pose seven years from now when she is 62, go right ahead.

The problem for me is that in seven years, I will be 69, and the only good thing about 69 is--no, I am not going there.

And what's the use, by 69 I will probably be sitting in the same leaky boat I am in right now, but by then, I will most probably be officially retired.

Well, that is something to look forward to ...

Or so I have been told.

But coming back to 2019, let's fix the oven first.