So today it was announced that the debt clock has officially ran out of digits to track our national debt. I’ve seen the debt figure before online, but I was astounded to see that each family’s share is currently ~$86k.
The Durst Organization says it plans to update the sign next year by adding two digits. That will make it capable of tracking debt up to a quadrillion dollars.
Now that is surely some positive thinking, setting the clock up for showing a potential a quadrillion dollars worth of debt?! 
Because if there weren’t any, there are some things that would never get done. Taxes for sure. Ugh, the thought of needing to do them. Time is ticking and I need to get on the ball. I always dread doing them because of all the sorting papers, finding papers, etc. Hopefully I’ll have the motivation in the morning to get everything together and run them by Jackson-Hewitt. Every year this sort of thing happens. I always end up not getting them done until almost the last moment possible. I think I hate them that much 
At the last county election, a local tax called ‘SPLOST’ was voted on and approved. It is basically another 1% tax that is tacked onto the sales tax, which is supposed to be for improvements on our local road system. Since then, I have seen nothing at all be improved. A couple of years ago, our county did a county-wide waterline project. During this, they had to saw up strips across the road to get the waterline across, and when they were done w/ that they poured these strips w/ concrete. Well since then, all of these have sank down. I would have assumed that the many thousands and thousands of dollars that this new tax was going to be bringing in would have been used to repave some of these roads. Wrong! Continue Reading..
So I’m going out there. And I’m going to do the best I can. People are going to get in my way. Things are going to bring me down. But I’m going to keep going. I’m going to reach as far as I can, for every thing I’ve ever wanted. And I’m not giving up. Because that’s what you do when your dreams are more important than your fears. You go out there and ignore the odds. You focus on one thing—that your dreams come true.
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