As mentioned, not all rices are equal...kids were deployed to Korea for a long time. Basmati and jasmine are game changers, as is a simple rice cooker for like $30.
Well, Hemingway, said (in Green Hills of Africa) that the GAN was Huck Finn; all novels after that were somewhat derivative, and may have been true when he said it.
Lots of good ones mentioned; would include:
The Sun Also Rises Hemingway
Horseman, Pass By McMurtry
One Flew Over the Cuckoos...
Why? Not challenging your decision, just curious. They're sitting on record amounts of cash; do you think they're waiting for a major downturn as the S&P 500 is at a pretty high Price/Book value?
If a financial advisor is over 60, ask them why they aren't retired by taking their own advice.
And let's face it, there's luck involved. If you hit retirement age in 2000 or 2008 and had most of your money in equities, that was just bad luck. Of course, that wouldn't have been prudent...