A Year of Blogging: October 29, 2011

October 29 is 'Hermit Day'. This is your chance to leave the world behind and spend it in quiet seclusion. Sometimes I feel like a hermit. There are some weekends that I come home on Friday night from work and don't leave the house until I go to work on Monday morning. We all need quiet time. And if that quiet time is a whole weekend, there's nothing wrong with that. Erich tries to be a hermit. If we had the means, we'd be living on a farm with 40 acres or so, with no neighbors close by. He would be quite happy if from our house you couldn't see another house. He does not have a cell phone because he doesn't want to be found. Seriously. He's not really a people person, and prefers to be alone at home than to be surrounded by people in public. Maybe someday his dreams will come true! October 29 is a significant day in history as well. On Black Tuesday, October 29, 1929, the Stock Market crashed. More than sixteen million shares were traded on the New York Stock Exchange that day. Billions of dollars were lost. The stock tickers ran hours behind because they could not keep up with the volume. Black Tuesday was the start of the Great Depression. It is important to remember this day in history so that history does not repeat itself.