Happy New Year to you and yours. I’m pretty sure I received the evilest gift possible this Christmas and it’s taken me a week to fully appreciate its underlying malevolence. This is something Dalcy and I received from – surprise! – Father Varnt. I sometimes don’t think he’s as pious as he makes himself out to be.
The box bills the product as the Digital Coin Counter Container – and yes, it features a digital display, counts coins, and then contains them as well...though not very good. Dalcy tends to pick up every blasted penny she finds so we have little stacks throughout the house. I fed into this new machine what the display said was fifty cents. Peering through the container, I sensed it wasn’t fifty. Starting over with an empty container, that same handful of pennies now equaled thirty-two cents. I know the economy is bad but come on. So I grab another fist full of dollars (great Clint Howard movie – check it out) and start shoving the pieces into the slot. Quarters. Dimes. In the midst of this Dalcy brought up Eisenhower dollars but I don’t think anyone remembers those. Anyway the grandkids were flushing coins through the thing when I started hearing metallic pings. I was dismayed to see through the plastic siding that most coins were now bypassing their collection tube and landing on the interior platform. In the midst of all this fun the batteries died so I still have no idea how much coinage we have lying around. I don’t think the collection tubes can be fitted with coin wrappers so someone could count and wrap coins at the same time so I question this product’s true usefulness.
There’s a resolution for 2012 in all this: cleaning out the house. We’re not hoarders but we tend to keep things a bit longer than needed (ask me sometime about our 1984 visit to Paducah).
I’ve got the news on as I write this and I gotta ask: is anyone else disgusted at the sight of animated bears frolicking around with bits of paper stuck on their backside? Is the pope catholic? (The answer is “yes”!)
I’ve been eating this zaatar stuff since for about a month now. It’s got this tangy zing that really goes good with vegetables.
Found a box of string in the closet while putting away Christmas decorations. Might see if I can sell this stuff.
After a week of televised national concerts celebrating Christmas I see there are a few national concerts celebrating the new year on the tube in the coming days. I wonder how many shows some of those choirs do this time of year, plus practices. Not familiar with many New Year's songs so I may check one of these out. (Hugh Jackman, the guy from the House Doctor program, is singing in one of them now, so...eh.)
We’re due over to friends for polsole in another hour. It’s supposedly a good luck thing. It’s also a Central American thing. I guess your luck is good until December 20.
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