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J's favorite metaphor for her before-bed mental ritual is "closing her tabs," as if her mind were a cluttered internet browser with too many open windows that ought to be X'd out of before she might find peace and rest. It's an ongoing point of debate in our marriage that I have no problem opening (and leaving open) endless tabs on the laptop, while she prefers the cleaner look a browser that has maybe her webmail and one or two other tabs. Proving her accusation of me right (in practice, if not in principle) here's what I currently have open on my phone browser:

1) Ephemeria Alcuinus-the news (or "acti") in Latin, currently headlined by news of Donaldus Trump.
2) The BBC guide to how to cook a goose, which I think I opened up back before Christmas. Might be time to close this one.
3) 21 Reasons to Bust Out a Ramekin. The pot pie recipes look really good, and one of these days I'll get around to trying one
4) A list of tracks to The Idiot's Guide to Classical Music, because it was an excellent list of pieces that kids might be interested in. (If, of course, you fast forward to the good bits and only play them for 30-45 seconds.) Someday James and Owen might appreciate how much that CD shaped the path of the family career.
5) A recipe for simple crusty white bread from Seriouseats.com
6) An article about endurance exercises from the trumpet prof at University of Miami.
7) The Collins French-English dictionary. The last word I looked up, apparently, was "poinçonner."
8) The trumpetexcerpts.org page for Scheherazade.
9) A list of French verbs which use "être" in the passé composé.
10) "An Arundel Tomb" from Philip Larkin's poetryfoundation.org page
11) An interview with NT Wright from the National Catholic Reporter
12) A recipe for shaved brussel sprouts and bacon from electroluxappliances.org.
13) How to start a Roth IRA
14) Compare Vanguard Mutual Fund profiles
15) Blogger.com, which I have open because I did not bring a second book to rehearsal, and now have nothing to read for the next hour and a half