First day as Mr Mom
My first day on the homefront has gone pretty smoothly so far, minus Vivi’s panic over being late for her first day of work over the issue of how to get the cadillac’s defroster working. The cadillac, as a car for older people, seems like an utter failure, as it is full of tiny little buttons and knobs and levers all over the place that make no sense whatsoever. It has simply the most user-UN-friendly interface I’ve ever seen in a car. It will take some time for Vivi to get a handle on it, I’m sure. Meanwhile, Jaime had a good day at school, and I had a pretty easy morning. Just a few minutes late in bringing him in, but no bid deal, and then back, home to do some programming for work. And finished off the near-term feature requests pretty easily. When I picked Jaime up from school, he was in a happy mood, and it is a bright beautiful day, so I took him to the playground and we played in the sunshine for about 40 minutes. What a day! Staying at home like this feels like a complete scam and I could almost feel guilty that meanwhile Vivi is shut indoors in some windowless office park hell, but then I remember, this all was her choice. So I’m just going to enjoy it.
Picked up some groceries for dinner tonight, got Jaime home, and he played with his choo-choos and watched the john deere tractor video for a bit before his nap. Now he’s napping and I am doing some laundry, did the dishes and cleaned the kitchen a bit. Things couldn’t be easier! Well, except the house is a disorganized cluttered mess that I really want to whip into shape, but I see there’s a big difference between doing the stuff that is simple to do, and doing stuff that is a bit of a head-scratcher. I mean, our biggest problem is that we have too much stuff for our small house, so where do you put all the stuff that is lying around? I’m not sure - Vivi was surely better at creating space for things than I am, but I’m determined to figure it out. Less clutter = more space = more relaxing living, I think.
On the market front, I see the stock market has raced nearly back up to it’s all-time highs. Oil made some strong gains and is trying to hold onto them, and gold has held at $740 - wow. That .5% rate cut has sent everything skyward. I’m not changing my tune about things - it was never my belief that I was calling or could call a market top, it is simply that there is bad news that has come and that will continue to come, and the downside risk to this market, IMO, outweighs the upside. I’d still get out now while you can. I diversified my own commodity holdings to include oil, swedish and swiss currencies, agricultural products, and natural gas. I thought I’d bought gold too, but I seem to be mistaken there - oh well. Maybe if there’s a sell off in it, I’ll try to buy in.
Well, I can’t avoid my duties forever!
