Got my mind on my money and my money on my mind.

In other words, I can't stop

• trying to figure out what the economic situation actually is,
• trying to figure out exactly how worried I should be about
  
• myself and the historian,
• my children,
• my mom and dad,
• my siblings,
• my bff, and
  
• how this will affect the election, as well as
  
• how on earth whoever wins the election will deal with all of it.

I made a new iGoogle page with a bunch of news and aggregators links. However: this way lies madness and obsessive page refreshing, so I also sorted through a bunch of possessions that it was time to get rid of (I think I could do this monthly, frankly), then made some excellent whole wheat bread and a good dinner, which we shared with singing son and his wife. What else is there to do?

This may shed a little light on the situation: