Funny Money

One of my recent concerns was that hyper-inflation will hit and that our currency will become funny money... The idea of using a wooden bill was first done by the German's whose currency was devastated after WW I. They knew the bills would quickly become collector's items, hence helping to stabilize the temporary wooden bills!

But this is no laughing matter... nothing involving currency ever is - especially counterfeit money. The US had such a problem with this that all 13 colonies publicized that if you conterfeited the money, you sould be killed. We've always been a county in favor of the death penalty (and this is before Texas was part of the US).

Odds and ends...

Okay, so I've mainly been ranting on here for the last few posts, so here's just some general (boring) life stuff. My landlord (and her co-landlord friends) managed to fire our worthless boab... but, replaced him with someone twice the price (I'm like WTF? I'm not made of money woman! - at least money I want to spend on someone who doesn't really do anything). I'm flying to Norway on Friday morning for a week of cool weather and hanging out with old friends.

I also had a realization that I don't know how to use my oven - this is something I need to figure out. My last attempt involved setting a paper towel on fire, sticking it in the oven and turning the gas on... that didn't work, so i need to try something else, but for some reason I keep having images of my eyebrows getting burnt off.

I got the second half of one of my required immunizations the other day - everyone should be proud, I didn't cry (much) when she stuck me.

I'm also out of milk, which is a bummer, because I really wanted a glass this morning. Now, even worse the tea boy hasn't come around with the morning coffee yet.

However, I'm in a good mood today - I've got plans to do some grocery shopping later, which means I'll restock on Cheez-its.

Sweet! The coffee has arrived!

Genius police judge execution-style shooting to be murder...

The death of Steve McNair (former quarterback of the Tennessee Titans) was ruled a murder today, as reported by CNN. I'm not sure why this is news or would come as a surprise - it's hard to accidentally get shot twice in the chest and twice in the head at close range without it being intentional... They still haven't said if his girlfriend was murdered, or shot him, then killed herself.
According to reports he had been at the bar for most of the evening... Note to self, if the girlfriend is cleaning her gun and says, "Honey, I really wish you'd spend the evening with me instead of going out to the bars." it should probably be taken as a serious hint.