Saturday, October 29, 2016

Coins

This post will not be exciting. It's here mainly for accounting purposes. Some time ago I documented emptying my coin jar. Wow, that was 10 years ago! I didn't mentioned that soon after, we put them all in little rolls and took them to the bank. Anyhow, I just did it again, almost.

Some years ago, my lovely wife decided that it would be fun and educational for her and the kids to collect quarters from each state. Do you remember how they were gonna go from having one quarter to having 50 quarters with each state honored on one side? And how they would roll out each state one at a time? They would put them each in a little book and learn about the states as each new one was issued. Well the kids never got interested and most of us forgot about the whole quarter-state thing.

About 20 years later, my wife pulls down a box from on top of a cabinet and it contains a boat load of quarters and a bunch of paper tubes to hold them in.  She hands it to me and says "Deal with this". So I finish rolling them all up and, while in the mood, go get my big plastic coke bottle and go through the whole process with it again. To make a long story short, I deposited about $800 total and now I get to start all over again.


Monday, September 26, 2016

Sand Castles

This year's offering.  The tide was going out so I didn't see how it ended.


Tuesday, June 21, 2016

Scintillating scotoma

A few years ago, I was working in the lab when I noticed that my vision was going wacky. I wrote all about it on my blog which you can read here. Well, today I was reading In the Pipeline and one commenter mentioned fortifications hallucination. So I looked that up and found the wikipedia article, scintillating scotoma, which pretty exactly describes what I was seeing.  The Wiki article even has some pretty good graphics.

Now I have a little better idea of what was going on. I never did get a migraine and this never happened again.