Map out your local homeless before they do

With the seasons changing as they do each year, the migration due to weather and job scarcity increases to more temperate areas like Jacksonville.

I had contact with two different families, one coming from Seattle and another from Boston, both having the same issues of inability to find work as well as preparing for another hard winter affecting family members' health problems.

Although the agencies in the area attempt to assist as much as possible, there's the masses still unaccounted for that are off the scale. Meal lines, labor pool lines, medical clinics, all of them are already beginning to see the increases during the hours of operation that otherwise go ignored.

Until someone gets offended at what's outside their front door regularly.

I'd give it another month before more of the uneducated business owners downtown start throwing up the idea of barcode scanner usage on the homeless again, similar to what was proposed to fingerprinting for food five years ago.

Things you can do

If you're getting new office furniture, donate the old stuff to people reintegrating back into homes. Getting on one's feet isn't easy. Most people don't have filing cabinets, folders, and the rest of the stuff that really most people need in keeping track and dealing with this, that, and the other stuff in their lives.

The other option is letting people use doors on their backs set on cinder blocks, not being able to find papers put somewhere when needed, and being back on the streets once more....

....all for the want of a table, the house was lost!

The 'Anonymous' Comment you may find

People are people. Some nicer than others. Some not. Recently I've been getting a large handful of posters commenting 'anonymously', most replying out of ignorance and not knowing anything about the blog or the writer behind it...but the majority pretty much just simply ignorant.

For them I offer this list of top term life insurance companies. May they find their needs better filled elsewhere.

For the rest of the readership, last week ushered in another mass scare involving Swine Flu. Texas one of the first reported States closing schools, followed by numerous others throughout the country. Florida itself had two confirmed cases as reported by media on Friday.

Our Vice President went as far to say something along the way of avoiding closed confined spaces such as airplanes and subways. On the other hand I saw nothing in regards to closed air spaces such as jails, shelters, or other congregate living areas targetted for the poor.

I've also seen no sign of masks worn or dolled out. Maybe it's early, or maybe they're using those nifty noseplugs you can't see that I saw in Batman Returns...you had to look close to find them...they were in his nose...obviously.

When ya get a job, ya can get some of da bling

Howie Mandel...Youtube.com...and Buy.com. It's always pretty when he pushes a sale.

But unlike his million in a briefcase; which has dwindled to a half a million...and where did all the models go; he's getting better quality time in 30 seconds rather than minutes, in my opinion.

On a scale of 10 this time around, I'd give him a '7'...but not for lack of trying. He simply didn't ask me or any homeless cohorts to be included in his video.

That was a joke.

So when you end up getting a job, need some 'pretty pretty'...go give 'im a click. Tell him John sent ya...and he should have gotten 'MY' bling on.

Trust me, I can use all the prettyness I can get these days.