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Acronyms are part of living in a complex society.  This IPhone application will make it a little bit easier.  Just punch in any acronym and the acronym-omatic will tell you the most common uses of that acronym.  Some examples:

• POTUS    President of the United States
• MOC        Member of Congress, Mount Olive College or Make Out Club
• PCV         Peace Corp Volunteer or Positive Crankcase Ventilation
• PVC         Poly Vinyl Chloride or Premature Ventricular Contraction

You can have this idea.  I estimate it is worth a few dollars.  Billions of Iphone applications have been downloaded.  I checked there is not an acronym decoder available for IPhone yet but there are some acronym dictionaries available on other platforms.

There is a great explanation of President Obama’s budget on YouTube

It uses pennies.

This is my attempt to embed it:

I am helping Nurit manage her parents through the labyrinth of medical, personal and societal choices that aging invariably makes one face.  It has caused me to start a new section on my blog called AGING.  I have also realized that there is a need for a new profession called Senior Options Counselor.

A Senior Options Counselor would help a family find the best available care and services for their seniors.  Every case is different but here are some questions we need advise on:

• We need a driver who will escort Nurit’s mom to the door at both end of her journey.
• We also need help convincing the In-laws that they can spend some of their money to live comfortably.
• When is the right time to sell the house and move to assisted living?
• Are there facilities nearby where two seniors who need different levels of care can live together?

Senior care is going to be a larger and larger cost to our society.  Trained people with experience and resources will be able to provide an important service as Senior Options Counselors and make very good money doing it.

When you are hurt or have an operation you are often given Physical Therapy (PT).  It seems to me that many older people who have to adjust to new physical constraints also need Mental Therapy (MT).  How about that: I invented the new career and the acronym at the same time.

MT is different than Psychiatry.  It helps you adjust to the present situation with simple exercises.  It deals with just issues related to the change in circumstances.  In other words it is PT for the mind.  Plus MTs are available and don’t have the stigma that psychiatry has to many people.

Inflation got a little bit out of hand in Zimbabwe last year and they printed this One Hundred Trillion dollar bill.

I bought mine on ebay for $3.00 plus postage.

I hope that Federal Reserve Chair Ben Bernanke has one as a reminder of what happens if he doesn’t do his job well.