day 4

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Accomplished: Sasha gets a pony! Yanek, being ten, is jealous. Also, Sasha rats Yanek out for jumping out o a hayloft, but there's no consequence because the ponies have arrived.

I don't know anything about ponies, it appears, despite the fact that I did some research. In 1900 would the ponies have walked ten miles from where they were bought or would hey have been brought in a trailer, given that (1) the Duke is a tentative modernizer and likes automobiles and (2)this is not a well-paved or advanced country?

I will figure that out later. I will also have to gloss over details in pony care and children's riding lessons though these will be plot points. How did I fail to do that research in the last two months when I knew this was coming up?

How did it get to be eight-thirty? I had to take a nap, yes, but it was seven-forty-five a moment ago before I started browsing for scrubs to wear to work.

I'm going to the doctor today! I am an insured woman! Soon I will have a referral for my leg pain! And answers for my skin things!

Tomorrow: Yanek also gets a pony. It's an afterthought, but it's a pony.

And after that, Yanek goes to the Duchal palace and is mistaken for a serving boy, which is not the part of being there that is the most traumatic.

the cost of a house

In 1977, the nice fellow and I bought the house I live in for $46,900. We both made about $4.75 an hour.

Ooh, looky:
In 2010, the relative worth of $4.75 from 1977 is:
$17.10 using the Consumer Price Index
$14.00 using the GDP deflator
$15.50 using the unskilled wage
$17.60 using the Production Worker Compensation
$24.10 using the nominal GDP per capita
$34.00 using the relative share of GDP

In 2010, the relative worth of $46,900.00 from 1977 is:
$169,000.00 using the Consumer Price Index
$138,000.00 using the GDP deflator
$153,000.00 using the unskilled wage
$173,000.00 using the Production Worker Compensation
$238,000.00 using the nominal GDP per capita
$336,000.00 using the relative share of GDP

So in order to meet the conditions that the nice fellow and I encountered in 1977, our kids would have to be making something like $16 an hour each and they would have to find a house worth something less than $200,000.

That might be doable.

This is not what I started out to say.