Things started going down hill after I got fired from my job as Cage Cashier at one of the casinos in Laughlin Nevada. I was glad to get out of there. I had a lot of trouble with my Head Cashier. He always came to work with a bad attitude and took it out on me. I wasn’t alone very few people like him. He told me one time “I know everything and you know nothing”. What kind of attitude is that for a supervisor? The department heads would talk to him from time to time and he would get better then a month or so later he would be about the same. So I was always uptight and upset, it was not a good environment to work in. So When I got fired in the fall of 2009 I was happy. I got on unemployment and looked a little for a new job but mostly took it easy. I didn’t have much but it was enough to live on. After a few weeks some of my friends remarked on how much more relaxed I was since I got out from under that Head Cashier. In the beginning of 2011 I knew my unemployment was ending and I started seriously looking for a new job. Bullhead City Arizona was depressed. Most of Bullhead worked in the casinos across the river. The casinos were slow and laying people off because of the economy. There were no jobs. The only thing I was looking forward to was my sister Arlene’s and her husbands Gail’s 50th anniversary party in August. Other then that I didn’t care weather I lived or died.

Then 1 of my friends decided to get the gang I hung around with 40 years ago together for a reunion. So in March I took my tax return and went to California to spend the weekend with old friends. It was fun. I also took some time to visit some relatives I had not seen for a long time and some new additions I had never seen.. I took some pictures for me and some for a memory book I was making for Arlene and Gail’s Anniversary. I put pictures of all her family (parents, siblings, children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren in it. I was going to put Gail’s parents and sibling in it too but never got those pictures. I also added all the Arlene and Gail stories I could find in it. When I gave it to them they loved it.