I'm still here. For now. With a raise. Not a let's-go-out-and-celebrate-raise, more like an
ok-now-I have-enough-money-to-pay-the-con-ed-bill-and-phone-bill raise. Not even. I understand the any raise is good. I understand that I could be way worse off. I also understand that no way does the raise begin to cover all the OTHER increases lately: maintentance, insurance, etc. etc. As Iris DeMent says "easier is getting harder every day."