The Rollings Stones edition of the Best of Money Carnival at Wealth Pilgrim chose my post on a Monte Carlo estimator for retirement planning as the #3 post for the week.  Thank you for your confidence in my code.

And, yes, I know my post title is a reference to the magazine and not the group.

I also enjoyed the #2 post on Save Money (and Water!) With a Rain Barrel from fivecentnickle, especially after watching “Extreme Bathrooms,” last weekend on the Travel Channel.  My five-year-old son and I both loved it!  One of the featured bathrooms used collected rainwater to flush the toilets — a great idea — and I started scheming on how to collect the rainwater (typically at ground level) and pump it up to be above the second floor.  Of course you could use an energy-guzzling electric pump, but I thought of the recumbent exercise bike I bought when I was pregnant.  I could reconfigure the bike to pump water from ground level to a storage tank in the attic, right?  I ran the idea past my better half, who rolled her eyes and gave me “the look.”  I have to admit that it wouldn’t make a lot of sense to install such a system in Massachusetts where the thermodynamically stable state of water is solid almost half the year.  After all, it’s the middle of June, and I’m wearing a sweater.