I was pushing buttons on my truck radio this morning and came across a new word that I'd not heard before. This new word is born of a time in our lives when recession, $4.00 per gallon gas prices and other generally depressing stories circulating in the news media have gotten to a point where it is so painful it becomes funny. You know what I mean...junior hitting Dad in the crotch with a baseball or skateboard punk doing a faceplant. The kind of pain that made Bob Saget a rich man on AFV.

In politics it is called "Spin". Take a position or a concept and "spin it" from a negative to a positive. Present it in such a way that it is more palatable, believible or acceptable. With that in mind I want to introduce you to a new Stupid Word. Here is the reality of the word..."un-spun" ...You can't afford to take a summer vacation this year because your credit card debt has reached an all time high. The value of your home that you have faithfully refinanced every two years, much to the delight of your favorite mortgage broker, has plumitted and can no longer be used as an ATM to fund your lavish lifestyle. The cost of filling your boat with gas has equaled the resale value of your SUV. The cost of a gallon of milk has exceeded the cost of beer. Whoops, bad example...cheap beer is always a good thing, the high cost of groceries is what I meant to point out. But the real point here is you can't afford to go away on vacation. Well, there is a solution to this delima. It is called a "Staycation". You can't afford to "vacate" so you "staycate"...at home...Don't cry honey, we saw Mickey last year...This year we're going on Staycation in the back yard. You can sit in the boat on the trailer and pretend sail or bounce on the trampoline with this ski rope in your hands and pretend wakeboard. Don't cry baby...Staycations are fun...You don't have to wait an hour after you eat before you can go pretend swimming under the sprinkler.