I don't mean to nitpick, Tom, but is this really your plan?

I like this story on decision fatigue, if for no other reason than that it makes me feel justified in eating the same thing day after day—I’m saving up willpower!—and as a bonus offers a reason to eat when I want to improve my decisionmaking.

( Restrictive covenants, Jenny Holzer, unconscious reactions )

Raising children: 2.0 took two pairs of boxer shorts, mushed them together, and insisted they were a baby. But she also maintained that she was the daddy and that the baby had two daddies, so perhaps I haven’t failed as a parent.

( mortgages, discounting, food, suburban history )

I don't usually recommend fanfic, because I'm usually behind the curve -- if I've seen it and it's SV, anybody who might be interested has probably seen it as well. But Verism, if that's her name, doesn't seem to have an LJ -- correct me if I'm wrong, will you? And Luthor Detail and The 0100 were interesting short stories. The first is basically a sweet futurefic with a few very nice touches; the second is a crossover with "The 4400," though I don't think you need to know anything about the show for the story to work, and it starts off with the best observation about Clark's football playing I've seen and then goes someplace very different.

Oh, I am so far behind in my reviews. The stack on my desk is about three feet high. And the Deep Discount DVDs arrived today, tempting me away from writing ...

( A little bit of fiction: Sean Stewart, Kristine Kathryn Rusch, F. Paul Wilson, Guy Gavriel Kay )