Happy Chinese New Year! “Gung Hai Fat Choi!” It’s the year of the rat! If anyone wants to give me red envelopes with cash in them, I would gladly welcome them.
Speaking of cash, I got a “Where’s George” dollar bill yesterday. If I can, I always enter them into the system at www.wheresgeorge.com. It’s kind of fun to see where the bill was. This one hasn’t travelled very far. The stamp on it says “Towson, Maryland”.
I got this dollar from our chapel offerings yesterday. I forgot to bring lunch, so I needed to eat something out of the sandwich machine. Yes, yes, I know it’s gross. But it keeps me alive. And I had to have something besides the banana I stole. Anyway, I only had a twenty in my wallet, so I went to Martha, who keeps the offering money, and asked if she could change it. I got one $5 bill and fifteen $1 bills. I plan to put it back into the offering next week to send it along.
Then after school, Tyler, one of my former students who is now in high school, just happened to be in the building and just happened to be talking about Where’s George, and I just happened to be there. He said he was the one who stamped this particular dollar. Isn’t that cool? It’s not as cool as last week’s Rocky IV coincidence, but it’s still pretty cool.
What was last week’s Rocky IV coincidence, you ask? I don’t remember because I didn’t write it into my memory archive. But I’ll ask Michele. She’ll remember.
I’ve entered the dollar into the Where’s George system. You can see it HERE. Not much there yet, but click the “profile” icon of the initial entry. It’s Tyler! I like his answer to “People generally consider me…” Hehe.
I never knew about that!! This reminds me of geocaching(http://www.geocaching.com/), something I’m dying to do, now that we got our GPS.
Ha! When I read your “Rocky IV” remark I thought, “Huh? I am going senile?” Then – whew.
What kind of sandwich did you get?
By the way, did you know that today is the 7th?
How old are you today Brad?
I got a ham and cheese on “pretzel bread”. It tastes okay, except the ham was weird and the bottom piece of bread was soggy.
I am 37 years and 364 days old today. Woo hoo!
OK – let me try to explain the Rocky IV coincidence:
I came in one morning last week and told Brad that my son David had “pinned a Russian” at wrestling the night before. Brad proceeded to ask, “Which Rocky movie had a Russian in it?” As we were speculating about that, a former student, Hunter, came in to visit. He’s huge! We chatted with him for a while, then the school bell rang. While Brad was doing devotions in advisory, some student said (out of the blue), “You know that Russian from Rocky IV? Well, that kid Hunter out in the hall looks just like him.” Brad freaked out and found me after advisory to share this crazy coincidence. “Get out!” I said as I shoved him a little. The end.
AAARRRGGGHHHH!!! Don’t tell a banker about defacing money!! We don’t care that it can still be used, you’re marring our beautiful currency. Pardon me while I go wipe my tears out of my eyes.
And don’t even get her started on devaluing our beautiful currency. It’s not pretty.
I can just see Karla, sitting home at night, knitting a new batch of currency for us all to use, crying because she knows its fate…