a little levity

Mom reads aloud from a book - the second law of thermodynamics:

S2 - S1 = q/T

and the author's paraphrase: "everything goes to hell unless you prop it up."

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Earlier, with the financial guy, we chatted about traveling in Spain and Portugal.

"I don't remember much about that trip," I confessed. "I was fourteen. I spent the whole time in the back seat with my headphones on, listening to Duran Duran and trying to imagine that I was somewhere doing something really cool."

Financial guy responded, without missing a beat: "Little did you know, you were."