Tot

tot
verb. Usually "tot up." To add up numbers or amounts. To accumulate something over a period of time. Also a noun.

"What are you doing?" David asked, leaning over her shoulder and peering at the monitor.

"Totting up our nest egg," she replied.

He was silent, eyes still on the screen. She added a number to the list she had made on a notepad, then logged off of the online brokerage website and navigated to another. David made no comment as she consulted her password vault and logged in on the new site. After a minute or so, she added another number to her list, then logged out. Turning her attention to the numbers she had written, she began to add.

When she reached for the calculator to verify her work, he spoke again. "If you die, what am I going to do about all this? I don't know how to use the computer and I don't want to learn, but everything we own is tied up with it somehow!"

Without looking up, she answered him. "Ask our son for help. Or my brother. Or your sister. Anyway, I'm not planning to die anytime soon. It could be years before you have to deal with this stuff, if ever."

He didn't feel reassured by that.

Definitions adapted from The New Oxford American Dictionary, Oxford University Press, Inc., 2005 (eBook Edition, copyright 2008), and from Webster's Seventh New Collegiate Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam Company, Publishers, Springfield, Massachusetts, USA, 1965, depending on which is more convenient to hand.