Some Good News

Amidst all the doom and gloom of late, a few positive things happened on Monday. I covered a somewhat positive story today and friend got himself a really sweet job.

My friend Pete Souza, a talented photographer and a super nice guy, was named as Barack Obama’s White House photographer. The White House if familiar territory for Pete, he served as Ronald Reagan’s photographer during his second term in office. Pete will do a great job documenting Obama’s historic presidency. Congratulations Pete, the position is well deserved. A story about Pete and the new job can be found here.
The second thing isn’t as exciting as that, but it was nice to cover something related to the economy that wasn’t bad news. Since people have all but stopped buying new cars, auto repair shops are seeing a surge in business. It makes sense, people would rather invest 600 or so dollars to maintain there aging car instead of dropping a bunch of cash and taking on a payment for a new one.
I visited a couple of repair shops, both were filled with cars. There were lots of cars in for tune ups and oil changes. Tires were also popular. Fred, one of the owner’s of San Rafael Firestone, apologized that the shop was a little messy. He said it had been too busy lately for the guys to give the shop a good cleaning. Seemed like a good excuse to me.