I have an electrical contracting business, and our workload has been all over the place. Several weeks completely dead, several weeks slammed, some weeks with just a handful of service calls but no installations. Normally we’re pretty slow from January through March, but this year the slow hasn’t stopped. Anyone who says we aren’t in a recession is smoking the good stuff.

Yet I talk to friends in rural Colorado and Idaho, and they’re busier than ever.

In other unrelated news, locals emerge from jungle looking quite satisfied.