Interesting web site: http://www.rulesforuse.org/,
what you’re allowed to do with currency in various parts of the world.
Besides spend it, that is.
The Bank of England has some pretty strict rules—and you have to
get written permission before slipping that fiver into the scanner,
or you’ll be in big trouble. (And be respectful of the Queen’s image,
please.)
The U.S. Secret Service isn’t so strict. The relevant legislation, the
Counterfeit Detection Act of 1992, needs revision, as it says nothing about
all-digital reproductions (e.g., images
on a web site). It’s all about hardcopy.
Jake & I went out to pick a few tomatoes—No, Jake,
only the red ones!—and came in with
thirty. That seems a pretty good haul for so late in the season.
The year’s total: six hundred and sixty-one. I doubt we’ll make
it to seven hundred, October being first-frost month. One good frost
and that will be the end of the tomato plants (which aren’t looking
too healthy as it is).
A rather large spider has set up housekeeping in the tomato plants.
I imagine it was most put out when Jake & I destroyed its web with
the garden hose.
Struggling with Money 2004: I tried to update the mortgage payments
to reflect the new escrow amount, but Money wouldn’t let me. If I
told it the changes took effect on November 1 (which they do), it
complained; if I told it the changes took effect today, it tried to
update today’s mortgage payment (which, having already been made,
probably shouldn’t be changed).
Jake likes to watch videos on the computer. (No, not that
kind; we don’t have any of those.) He calls them games: “I
want to watch the Day of the Dozer game,” he’ll say.
Sometimes I’m a bit slow to remember what he means.
8:00pm, and the temperature outside is 69° and falling rapidly.
The air smells of rain, though I don’t believe any has fallen this
evening.
Bought a half-dozen Gardner Dozois stories from Fictionwise last
night: after all those e-books I’ve downloaded (and in most cases
deleted unread), I actually paid for a few. Not much, only $4 for
the set, but it’s a start.
