hey zig, i've been trying to zag through your posts this evening.
Do you meditate at all? It sounds like you have a lot of beans jumping around in your head and you could use some time to calm it down a little!
I'm not sure why some people seem to get concrete suggestions and others don't.
I don't have any suggestions as scheduling kid time is not my area of DB expertise.... but I think it's good that you were firm that you wanted to talk about the scheduling tonight.