I'll never stop being fascinated by airplanes, so I'm interested in both of them, but realistically, $60,000 is as far away for me as $120,000. Explanatory dialog follows:

Me: as far as concerns money, I should have been an Engineering prof or a Business Administration prof.

Snarky daughter: But dad, what about all the industry competing with the U for the services of somebody good at Latin?

Me: YEAH, RIGHT!

Happy, resignedly happy, with the 150 I've got.


"The most beautiful thing on earth is the sky above it." -- Joanna Fink