My Time with the Times

                 So far reading the times has been quite an eye opening experience.  I’m not particularly used to reading the newspaper, but I really like the NYtimes.com format.  I can just glance at all of the big articles and see which one appeals to me.  Lately I've been following the battle in DC over the budget.  Congress can’t agree on how to handle the budget, so we may be facing automatic cuts across the board on March 1^st.  Obama is trying to reach a deal, but who really knows with Congress.  They’ll probably just drag it out until a week or so before the fact and then pass a deal that not only delays the problem, but also aggravates it.  I also check out headlines that jump out at me.  Sadly this usually brings me to murder cases and kidnappings.  I was happy to learn that the hostage situation in Alabama has been resolved peacefully.  I was also somewhat surprised to hear that the Post Office is likely to stop delivering letters on Saturdays.  They say it will save about $2 billion a year, but the article also highlighted that the Post Office is losing around $15 billion annually.  It just makes one wonder if we’ll even have a post office in thirty years.  I think I’ve missed a lot of the happier stories.  The tragedies just jump out at me so fast, that I don’t even notice “World’s Biggest Cookie.”  I would say reading the times hasn’t really affected my habits, except for the obvious new habit of reading the New York Times.