Go to sleep

My three-year-old is starting to transition out of naps and into a 7:00 fussiness that stretches each evening into long ordeals as we march towards bed.  Once he’s down, he tosses and turns for a while, finally working his way to sleep.  Because of my schedule, he’s often starting his day earlier than some other children his age.

Advice at the coffee shop

At a coffee shop, a man is talking with his wife about how he is “repositioning” their finances for the “crazy market we're in right now.” Then he proposed to:

• buy gold because the price is really high and lots of people are talking about it


• liquidate their stock and bond holdings, including retirement accounts, because they've lost so much money over the past few months


• keep cash at home instead of in the banks because "another one could go under at any moment, and who knows if it's ours?  And with inflation about to skyrocket, we have to be ready."

Strangely, he has no issue in using the Starbucks card to make the transaction - after all, when the Starbucks card is used to pay for coffee, you get a free shot of flavor with it.