Quick post because I need to get to bed. Today was kind of boring at work. I was able to finish up my monthly inventory reconciliation that was giving me problems. It was all because the warehouse/processor was shipping material to the customer and not faxing me paperwork, so I had no idea they had shipped anything. Then they were rejecting material but not telling us why. I think I got it all squared away, and next month should be easier.

I watched the President's speech tonight, it only lasted about 20 minutes. He said some good things, talked entirely about immigration reform and border security. I already knew he was going to announce the deployment of National Guard troops to the border with Mexico to help out with building fences and/or walls, monitoring security equipment, installing different forms of detection of people trying to cross the border illegally from Mexico. He didn't say whether the National Guard troops would only be from the border states, or whether they would be supplied by other states too.

He also didn't say how long it would take to increase the Border Patrol by the 6,000 agents he said he wanted. Last time he asked for 2,000 and he got 200. Every day another 3,200 immigrants enter our country illegally along our southern border. I guess I'll just have to wait and see if anything he proposed really comes to fruition, and whether it helps the situation. One interesting piece of information I read today, our border with Canada is 5,500 miles long, the worlds largest un-protected border. Imagine if we had immigrants trying to cross that border like they do down south?