The main reason I’ve been so gaga over online election coverage this past week isn’t the election itself.

I’m going through a tumultuous time here at (the highly mortgaged) MISCmedia Towers.

My father is dying. My mother is wearing herself out taking care of him at home, and has finally admitted such. We’ll be sending him to a residential facility, as soon as we can find one that’s not prohibitively expensive.

The cost of caring for him, plus some bad decisions to buy dot-com stocks, have seriously hurt the family’s liquid-asset situation. My parents and my brother own a lot of stuff (a minimansion, antique furniture, collectible cars), but the selling off of these assets has, in the current economic situation, gone slowly.

My brother’s naturopath practice has foundered. He’s barely affording the continuing-education courses he needs to keep his license.

And, as I’ve hinted at in the past, I’m currently not earning enough from freelance gigs to pay my mortgage, let alone the deck of credit cards I’ve been living on.

I’ve scoffed at the Bushies’ insistantly certain attitudes. But I may need to learn such an attitude myself.

I definitely need a source of material income. If you know of any paying jobs or gigs out there (no all-volunteer offers, please!), lemme know.

If you can lend me some time on a Wintel PC, long enough to brush up on by MS Office skills for the sake of admin jobs, lemme know.

If you know of a decent but non-life-savings-depleting residential care facility in the tri-county area, lemme know.

And if you just want to remember my parents in your thoughts, that’ll help too.