California continues to crumble. My son heard gunshots last night in our neighborhood. The schools are teetering on the brink of total dysfunction. It's blanketed in smoke, gray skies from mid-summer through Halloween regularly now. Ash falls on my truck like snow. Insane homeless people have become as common in the landscape as a shrub. My kids just walk by them now without batting an eye. Over $50B in the hole. Double-speak from the leadership on all things. Multiple gas taxes get passed by the voters, then the money is transitioned to something other than repairing the crumbling roads. In November the voters will pass a bill doing away with Proposition 13 for commercial real estate...Probably will increase the property tax for my golf club seven-fold.

I was handling the business of my father's estate over in Nevada the past several days. Took my son with me. It's a different planet when you leave California. People seem so much nicer. The sky is blue. The roads are smooth. The golf is cheap. The horizons are open. At work, they are working me to death - not hiring to fill positions of my colleagues when they retire - just having me do the work.

Yeah...going Galt soon. I'm the kid around the office so I can't help but smile...