24 June
The Raccoon and I have become obsessed with the new quarters.
You know, the quarters each commemorating the fifty states? The first time I heard of it was from the Not Quite Daily Whatever, but soon afterwards I started seeing the quarters themselves, as did The Raccoon, and we started studying our change as though the Holy Grail was in our pockets.
We were wondering why we'd only seen Pennsylvania and Delaware, and finally I looked it up on the web and found this!
"Bad news."
"What?"
"It's a ten year program!
"O no, we're gonna have to be staring at quarters for ten years?!"
So 1999 is Connecticut, Delaware, Georgia, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania, but so far only New Jersey, Delaware and Pennsylvania have been struck.
I don't know if I'll be sick to death of this by 2005 or something, but right now I love the treasure hunt aspect. If my Da was alive he'd be getting proof sets, as he collected coins, but I prefer circulated coins. They aren't as valuable, but they have more personality!
By the way, if anyone sees some sort of cardboard holder with spaces for all fifty quarters, let me know! I don't see anything over at the mint site.
So yesterday on Journal L someone mentioned that he had dead journals on either side of him in Open Pages, so I decided that I had been putting it off long enough and started cutting a swath through the ring.
O the dead journals! O the missing rings! O the people who moved their journals and never told OP!
I got through the first 300 and popped a bunch of them into the queue to see if they want to fix whatever it was that was wrong, and dumped a bunch of others. My personal favourite was one that I added last 28 August and whose most recent entry was last 21 August.
Being added to the ring was the thing that made her stop journalling!
It also just goes to show exactly how long it's been since I've gone through that section of the ring!
The other day I was walking to the van and I passed this very tall hedge with a space in it, and right before I got to the space a puff of smoke came out, you know, like someone smoking a cigarette.
Then, one second later I hit that spot and...no-one was there! And I could see all the way into the walkway thing, and there was no place for someone to have ducked away.
I can only assume that the Invisible Man is real and lives in my neighbourhood.
Will basketball ever end? God I hope the Knicks lose, everyone around here will be impossible if they win.
Today's horoscope:
Your thinking is more original and inventive. You focus on future possibilities and plans. Contact with friends or a new interest is possible.
One year ago today:
"O David, you're gay for heaven's sake!"
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