And Steph, at least you have contact with the outside world via work and Tim.

While Tim's been recovering, he hasn't had contact with the outside world much, either.

Guys, SERIOUSLY, I need him to go back to work like 5 days ago. We have literally never spent this much time together, not even on our honeymoon, and we might be about to murder each other.

His plan is to go back to work part-time tomorrow (today is 3 weeks since his surgery -- can you fucking BELIEVE that shit???), and I cannot fucking wait. It turns out that I've gotten really really used to not having another person around for at least 10 hours a day. And he's my favorite person, but man, I really need my No People At All time back.

That makes sense!

And right after that a coworker came by to talk about someone who is my age and about to become a billionaire! Oh, this world.

My office is abuzz with the news about Jeff Bezos selling $4 billion in Amazon stock (supposedly he needs quick cash for his divorce) and have all realized that $4 billion is too much money to even realistically understand. Like, I sold a BUNCH of my own Amazon stock when I was buying a house, but I can't wrap my mind around a lifestyle where I might need $4 billion in a hurry and getting it was no big deal.

I wish I was in a place where I had even 4 million dollars of amazon stock, much less 4 billion!

I knew I would crash from the whirlwind of the last month, but I hate to just sit for a whole day.....and yet, doing something else seems like a mountain.

You have to take a day sometimes. If for no other reason do it to keep your immunity from plummeting. You can't burn the candle at both ends indefinitely. The body will insist on taking a break.

We have literally never spent this much time together, not even on our honeymoon, and we might be about to murder each other.

Ha! At least now DH and I have our offices in different rooms in the house. In the past we actually shared office space too. For the past few years I have gone north for the summer, but mostly the last 32 years have been 24/7 for us.

I'm not sure I need to go outside everyday TBH. I am such an inside person, BUT, I need to do things.

I have now showered, washed 90% of the dishes, emptied the dishwasher, and picked up a few things. Oh and I ate. eating helps.

I am not going to turn on the TV until I complete my list, so that is my motivation.

4 billion $$ is too much. It's obscene.

I use ol' Jeff Bezos as an example when talking about "lies, damned lies, and statistics" in class. A couple of years ago it was reported that Jeff made $57 billion in a single year. I point out that his income alone increased the average American income by more than $100! What did you spend your share of that $100 on, I ask the students.

But of course the students didn't get $100 to spend. Jeff got all the $100's. That's why average is not a good measure of central tendency when you have a few outliers at the extreme. Average income (or average household income) doesn't tell us how people are doing.

On the other hand, Jeff's windfall didn't increase the median American income by a single cent. It usually takes a pretty broad economic benefit to raise median income. If you want to know how people in general are doing, choose the median.

That's amazingly clear, Rick.

I wish I was in a place where I had even 4 million dollars of amazon stock, much less 4 billion!

Billions really are immoral. Hil gave me this amazing bit on FB:

The example that I like best for that is that, if you earned $10,000 an hour, working eight hours a day, 365 days a year, and you'd started earning this money when the Declaration of Independence was signed, and you never spent any of it, you'd be almost a billionaire by now, but not quite.

May your birthday be more lovely to you and less stressful, -t!

I don't get any NO People Alone time at all any more. Or sometimes I manage a few hours.

What I really really want is a few nights, or hell just one night of just me and Matthew without his mom. When we go on vacation that is the only time we have like that. Sometimes she's gone for a few hours but that is it.

I miss truly alone no people time.