I think all you folks are wonderful, from kos on down.  In less than a week, we've all banded together to find enough cash to pay the salary of a very funny guy who manages to combine snark, fart jokes, and just enough seriousness to keep us gasping.

I know there are contributions still making their way via the USPS, so we'll have more than enough to pay for one year of Bill's salary, plus his healthcare costs, and perhaps even a few extras, which will be richly deserved.

But what I want to know is, now that we've got his salary taken care of for a year, what do we, his bosses, want to have him do?

This weekend as I carry a pager for my job and have worked at least eight hours dealing with whatever happens when it goes off, we're celebrating Labor Day.  I was thinking about work, and my own family's history, and whether or not I am better off than my grandparents were.  Specifically my mother's parents, since we were closer to them growing up than to my father's parents.

Superficially I am better off.  My spouse and I own a home (with the bank), and we've got a lot more house, in a high cost of living area, than they could have managed at this point in their lives.  We have plenty of money to spend after paying our bills, and we're both in high-paying careers- my grandparents were teachers.

Follow me below the fold to read more about them, and more about why I'm not sure I'm better off.