Another late night

This time watching Law & Order with Al after So you think... Rabbitohs finally won in NRL which is good for my tipping. Currently in middle of huge chess game with an Indian guy of very similar rating - thought I was gone for sure, but anything could happen.
Knee OK, not bad. Looked after Cam N for a while today while ladies and girls were all watching Disney on Ice spectacular. At his age, my buddies and I would have been playing board games (maybe) or rolling around outside with guns playing army games (more likely). Cam and Dec were more into PS2, Nintendo, one board game (at my suggestion) and doing some unscrewing with a drill (under my close supervision). They seem on good terms but I guess you can't be besties with everyone.
Dec's cough is shocking and pretty hard to live with. Our throats are also a little sore which is not great. Friends rang us the other day to say they have swine flu officially - we'd seen them a few days earlier so it may or may not happen to us.
Al had call from her boss very recently where he intimated that he may be downsizing around September. He didn't actually say Al would need to look for work elsewhere, but Al is assuming the worst. In some ways, it would be good for her to get back into part-time or full-time work now before she spends too many years out of the labour market, but it's been incredibly convenient for her to work from home via the Web. She's already dreading a loss of playdates for the kids etc. Having them come with me to work/school could work out, but it would need a bit of thinking through. They'd get a 50% discount on fees, and the money we would need to spend on fees would be hopefully completely outpaced by the higher income she'd be making. It's the old story: do we go for income or do we go for lifestyle? Her great friend she was with today is an insolvency accountant who's just been given a $25000 payrise! Business must be booming for insolvencies... Anyway, I've tried to reassure her that it's early days in making these decisions (I hope). Let's take it one step at a time.
Never a dull moment!