Memories

Remember when you were a kid and your parents taught you that as you made your way in the world, if you came across something that seemed too good to be true, it probably was?

No?

Good.

Then send me all your money. I promise you that i'll get rich, and you'll never see a dime.

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A surprising phone call

I'm waiting around the house for a service tech from T/W this morning to look at why my internet service keeps crapping out for hours at a time, and the phone rings. It's an automated call from my bank, verifying that i tried to purchase $2000 worth of "telecommunications" equipment using my debit card.

Which of course i hadn't. So the charge didn't go through. One purchase that did go through, though, was a $50.41 charge at McDonald's in Gonzalitos, Mexico.

I'm utterly appalled. Hope you enjoyed your Big Macs.

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In case you were wondering

Ever wonder how much money there is in the world? Not bank accounts and 401(k) and that stuff, but real hard cash money.

Found this at the bottom of an article about the new five dollar bill.

The government is only about one-third of the way through the redesign of the $100 and hopes to have that process completed by this time next year. Extra effort is going into the $100 makeover since this bill represents more than 70 percent of the $776 billion of currency in circulation, two-thirds of which is held overseas.

So, i can't tell about the rest of the world, but in the US, there's about $225 billion in folding money out there, about $150 billion of that in hundreds. How much you got on you?

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