Late this morning, I shelled out $2,595 for a new central air conditioning unit.
I'm going to go cry for a little while now.
You know, I was just going through my wallet, and I realized that I have three ten dollar bills that are all entirely different. There's a ten with the small face of Hamilton, there's a ten with the large face of Hamilton, and there's a ten with the new color-coded large face version of Hamilton.
All of which got me to thinking. . .
If there was ever a time that was ideal to be a counterfeiter, this is it. I mean, cashiers nationwide have been inundated with so many different versions of U.S. currency over the past several years, you could probably pass them Monopoly money and they'd think it was just the latest iteration of the government's attempt to stamp out counterfeiting.
I find it all deliciously ironic.
Melissa and I decided over the weekend we're going to get married in Rome. Just a little ceremony. Since neither of us wear jewelry (except I wear a watch for practical purposes, and a necklace, pretty much out of habit) we've decided to buy a couple of inexpensive jobbies while in Rome, which we'll maybe display in some sort of wedding memory display box or something when we're back home. We're tentatively slating this for sometime in 2007.
I love being non-traditional.
My driver's license lists me as 6'2". That is not correct. That is two inches too tall. Which is weird, because they measured me when I renewed my license. Then again, I wore some pretty thick-soled shoes back then.
I'm just a hairy hair shy of 6'. Like, so close to 6', there's probably only a millimeter keeping me from the 6' foot mark. With normal shoes on, I'm 6'1".
In case you were wondering.
Doug says: http://baltimore.areaconnect.com/crime/compare.htm?c1=Baltimore&s1=MD&c2=Rochester&s2=MN
Ryan says: Rochester wins in the rape arena!!! Go us!
Doug says: I saw that. That's disturbing.
Ryan says: Rah, Rah, Rape-Chester.
Doug says: Put that on a banner and hang it.
I'm going to link to this coin collecting site for beginners, because I just received an e-mail from some guy who saw my coin collecting blog post from awhile back and asked if I'd please link to his site. So there, I did that. It's the least I could do. I've been experiencing an insane spike in traffic lately, and figured I may as well spread the wealth. Good luck to you, oh coin collecting guy.
UPDATE: Oh, and Rick's feeling lonely, too. And he just contracted syphilis, so send him some good karma, m'kay?
Yes, I'm still alive, and yes I'm still a horrendously slacking blogger. Deadlines at work and all. That, and it's summer, and who wants to blog when it's nice out?
Although I did spend about an hour on Saturday deleting comment spam, which I think counts as blogging. By the way, comment spam is getting WAY out of control. It's irritating as all hell, to be honest.
More later, you know, when I find time, and if it's not nice out.
