The sun is shining through a very light haze. It's very quiet,
the only sound audible (by me) is the infinitely patient humming
of the computer. Presumably it was in one of the crowded subway car 
in which I commuted to the hearing last Thursday, I contracted a very
mild upper respiratory infection which has manifested itself only
by sore throat, hoarseness and a tracheal cough. No fever. Interestingly,
it's the slight tonsillar edema that causes the discomfort when I'm
recumbent, and disappears almost completely when I'm up and about,
the converse with what goes on in my legs: an interesting corroboration,
for what it's worth, of the principles of cardiovascular dynamics.

I agree that we should provide the children with cars, and that almost
surely another one should be bought. To be considered: new or used,
style, model, financed from funds in trusts of Mommys and mine or yours,
or mixed, maintained primarily by myself or by "professionals", registered
in whose name, yours, Laura's mine or one of the children, parked primarily
in the left side of the garage or in the driveway. All of this has
significant financial, insurance, legal and intra-family consequences,
which need explicit or implicit consideration.

I am open to all solutions, - but my preference, because it's financially
most advantageous, is that I should purchase a used car guided by strictly 
economic criteria, that Rebekah, Nathaniel and Benjamin should share
the red 2011 and the blue 2005 Minivans; that you and I should share
the newly acquired second hand car, the 1997 green minivan and the
1995 blue Nantucket minivan. The threshold issue is whether Rebekah
wants "a car of her own", an arrangement which would be relatively more
expensive.