Packing!
I remember when Crystal got me the little fridge magnet of this:
It was a good year for Rice Pilaf, harvested almost nightly in the microwave at Joss... and who can forget that night, when the sky over Joss beach was like neon pink and purple:
Yep, that's Chicago, and that is probably the best my digital camera could do at the time :-) It really was that color -- this is no editing, no nothing, the sky was absolutely incredible!
Ah, those fun times packing... so sad to leave! So happy to start a new life :-) And what about that old Silver Certificate $5 bill? Still worth $5, although at the time, if my CPI is correct, would be worth something in the neighborhood of $75... so that's what you get for keeping hard currency around... and why haven't those crazy existential Frenchmen (and women!) gotten on the dollar bill as this symbol of all things other-worldly -- I mean, society agrees that a piece of paper is worth something and so it is, and it maintains this imaginary value and is expanded about 10 times the actual physical "specie," as it were, because the banks only keep about 10% of what they have as deposits as physical currency... all I know is that I want my $5 in silver!!! And imagine if they had gotten $5 in silver back then, and kept it? It would probably still be worth that $75 today... Eh bien!
It was a good year for Rice Pilaf, harvested almost nightly in the microwave at Joss... and who can forget that night, when the sky over Joss beach was like neon pink and purple:
Yep, that's Chicago, and that is probably the best my digital camera could do at the time :-) It really was that color -- this is no editing, no nothing, the sky was absolutely incredible!
Ah, those fun times packing... so sad to leave! So happy to start a new life :-) And what about that old Silver Certificate $5 bill? Still worth $5, although at the time, if my CPI is correct, would be worth something in the neighborhood of $75... so that's what you get for keeping hard currency around... and why haven't those crazy existential Frenchmen (and women!) gotten on the dollar bill as this symbol of all things other-worldly -- I mean, society agrees that a piece of paper is worth something and so it is, and it maintains this imaginary value and is expanded about 10 times the actual physical "specie," as it were, because the banks only keep about 10% of what they have as deposits as physical currency... all I know is that I want my $5 in silver!!! And imagine if they had gotten $5 in silver back then, and kept it? It would probably still be worth that $75 today... Eh bien!
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