Here’s a Slate article I read about on a personal finance blog.? I like Dickens, though I prefer Hard Times to A Christmas Carol. “Facts, facts, facts.” (I even memorized the first page or so of said book for an Honors class requirement. Pretty sure, I only remember the first two lines at this point. I’m getting old and my brain has atrophied.)

This morning, I slept in until 9 o’clock, lazed around, dragged the spouse to Costco (though I had to bribe him with Indian food to get him to go), watched the season one finale of Heroes, and ordered Veronica Mars season three from Amazon. All in all, a productive day. Now I shall surf the interwebs and chortle as the spouse talks to himself with his new headset. He’s hogging the gaming PC to play online games.