Are you ready for Christmas? I'm not. And to top it all, Eric's boss hasn't given him his paycheck yet. WTF? Who does that? If you are running a business, you pay your employees when they work. We have kids and expenses. He has already taken a pay cut..and now this crap. The state of the economy has really hurt a lot of people. Right now no one is having any work done on their houses until after Xmas, which sucks if you are in the construction business. After this job Eric is doing is finished...he probably won't have any work until after Jan. 1st. Fortunately he has a few prospects to keep the family going until then. But it does make finishing shopping for Christmas and paying the bills hard. At least I have already bought a few gifts. This sucks...