Which was my advice when the August employment numbers were released.

Same today.There are some days when something significant happens. Today like September 7th wasn't one of them. If either August or September had been up 300,000, that would have been significant. But not 100K and change.

Another non significant day was Debate Tuesday.Nothing happened then either.

I'm in it and am being surprised.

Surprise 1.I'm trapped.When I reached the bottom limit of the coverage gap as it is officially known I figured that as  one way of offsetting the escalation in copays I'd save the Medicare Plan D premium by  simply withdrawing  from the plan for the rest of the year.

Wrong,When you're in you're in . For the full year.

Surprise 2.Not all copays are created equal. When I prepared to pay  one of my newly escalated copays today the druggist said

o "you'll  be able to have these on Oct 10".

o Me " Need em now "

Stood waiting for Sir Richard Strahan                                                                                                                    

 Sir Richard, longing to be at 'em     

Stood  waiting for the Earl of Chatham

An 18^th century verse on a battle which didn’t occur when it was supposed to as each  of the two British commanders waited for the other to make the first move.

Roy Jenkins quoted it to Prime Minister Callaghan in hopes of  persuading him  Britain should join the common currency.

Breathe.

The only conclusion with respect to the election that we can draw from this report, is that there  are 95,000 fewer people who might be furious with Obama because they can't find a job for which they ,understandably,may blame him, .

If it had been a gain of , say,  150,000 sure that would have been better: there'd have been an additional 55,000 fewer people who might have ceased being furious.But 95,000 was better than a poke in the eye with a sharp stick as my old granny used to say.