• A good time to stay in school

    Dad! I got into grad school! Wait. Dad?

    “I sensed a great disturbance….” (sitting unsteadily)

    Dad?!?

    “It was as if tens of thousands of dollars suddenly cried out in terror and were suddenly silenced.”

  • If the economy could speak

    The Guardian:

    The US economy shrank by 32.9% between April and June, its sharpest contraction since the second world war, government figures revealed on Thursday, as more signs emerged of the coronavirus pandemic’s heavy toll on the country’s economy.
    The record-setting quarterly fall in economic growth came as another 1.43 million Americans filed for unemployment benefits, a second week of rises after a four-month decline.
    The annualized figure is the largest drop in quarterly gross domestic product (GDP) – the broadest measure of the economy – since records began in 1945.

    The U.S. Economy:

    Looks like I picked the wrong week to quit unemployment benefits

  • Just Older

    Ugh. There’s more evidence – courtesy of the last 48 hours – that there’s a point at which growing older can no longer be graceful. My mother passed this point years ago. Although my father passed this point a couple of years ago, grace exists on a continuum – and it’s always possible to have less. This was on display earlier this week, at two different hospital emergency departments.

    There will be no adult beverages for me this evening. I need to be able to drive to a hospital if I get another call.