What happened?

Once again today I am doomed to spend 7 hours doing mindless repetitive tasks that a computer can do in 30 seconds, if of course the computer knew how. It used to, but it had some kind of brain fart which IT calls “fixing things” and now it has forgotten. I know I have no right to bitch, after all Wall Street is having what my friend in investments calls a “meltdown”. He doesn't say it quite that calmly however. I mean, he's not a man who yells, but I imagine him sitting with a day's growth of beard in his $500 suit, tie loose, shaking his incredulous head back and forth. It does indeed look like the end of the world from up close so I'm trying to find prospective today. As I told him, “We've been through some crappy times before, some much worse than this.” I hope that's true, but I'm really not certain the US economy has even been in deeper do-do. Good thing I never put my sights on getting rich.