We went to the Roger Williams Park Zoo today. I have gone to that zoo countless times in my life, most before I was 12 years old. It has changed quite a bit, but there are still some good old blasts from the past. It is still such a big and beautiful zoo, so much better than anything we have around here.

There's this bronze dog statue outside one of the gift shops. I must have sat on that dog for photo ops 100 times in my childhood, and if I dig through the house, I can probably find one. I sat my kid on the dog and holy crap, it was weird!

My childhood... meet my parenthood.

When I took Calculus in high school, my nerdy math teacher REALLY liked to toss around word problems about compounding interest. I don't know what it was about compounding interest that held his, umm, interest, but it was a bit of an obsession. You always knew it was coming when you saw a "Generous Uncle" word problem. As in, "Your generous uncle sets up a trust when you are born with $X..."

Well, if I had a REAL generous uncle, I would want him to buy us THIS. Please.