No, turns out it isn't.

        Last week I wrote a post pondering if it, meaning some of the more stringent difficulty of late, were over yet. Turns out they are not. Still supporting four sick little kids, a sick wife who is spending far too much times trying to make others' lives easier and trying to maintain my work and school schedule. Just when you think you have everything in a row, you catch a high and inside fastball right in the earhole. The crap keeps piling up. The air conditioning went out on my car this week This might seem to be a summer problem, and it would be, if it wasn't 90 this week in SoCal. My good friends are moving away this week as well, and I'm swimming in a sea of depression watching them go. I feel like I'm sinking.
        Of all the more valuable things I have learned, I am coming to realize even more as I get older, that there are times in life when hope is dwindling or gone, there are few great things on the near horizon and the suck just keeps coming. You can't quit and you can't stop, so all you can do is lower your head and plow ahead, taking the hits and hoping they don't knock you down more than a little. Business is the same way at many times. I read a book called, "The Dip", that really was about this very thing. You either keep going, or you quit. And you simply can't quit some things, at least not easily, and you can't just do nothing, so you pack up and keep moving. That's all I have this week. My head is down and my eyes are closed, and I'm just plowing on.