Congrats to the happy homeowners!

I think George Washington [link] looks angry, much like Willow's parents when she was getting ready for the (dream) play.

Really, after the last few years, can you blame him? I bet the Hoover and Coologe coins will have them grinning from ear to ear, though.

As would Nixon's, if not for fear that he'd rise from the grave for revenge on anyone depicting him in an unfrowny state.

Daisy Jane - is it a mini wire?

No, he's short haired. Here is is [link] and here [link] one more of the boys and my girl Maxine [link]

They've got the name of the guy who shot up Trolley Square last night, and he's described as "trench-coated Sulejmen Talovic". I know it's horrible, but I wish his name had been something like Tom Smith or something. And that he'd been wearing a local college letterman jacket. Now I have to listen to people make assumptions.

I want the dollar coins to take so badly. I really like them. I just don't understand the public's resistence.

Re: The Goldmans: I think they're just trying to make sure he doesn't make any money off the death of their son--which sounds like a sad mission, at best. But there are parents out there who have to go back year after year to make sure their child's killer doesn't get paroled from prison, too. It may be the case of that's the only thing they can do to respect the memory of their child. It sounds emotionally exhausting, no matter what.

Person's house catches on fire. Insurance company says that the last payment was applied to someone else's account so person has not made their insurance payment. WTF!?!

Oh, a lawyer should be able to help. If a person has proof that they made a reasonable effort to pay their premiums they should be legally covered for insurance purposes. It sucks that they have to fight it, but it's a winnable battle.

Of course, my niece made her car insurance payments on time and when she got into an accident, found out her car insurance company was filing for bancruptcy. Since she was at fault in the accident, she was legally liable for the entire amount of the accident--$14K. She had to file bancruptcy as a result. They sought relief from a fund each state sets up to cover situations like that but their are never enough funds to cover all the situations. Part of your insurance premium payments goes into state funds.

It's been a steady, freezing rain from 1:00 p.m. today. It's just cruddy.

I want the dollar coins to take so badly. I really like them. I just don't understand the public's resistence.

Me too! I'm just going to be incredibly cheesed off if it's the fugly presidential coins that finally succeed. The Sacajawea coins are so pretty! Apparently it's too much to ask for one, just one, piece of American money that doesn't make the baby Jesus frown and blurp up His last feeding.

They've got the name of the guy who shot up Trolley Square last night, and he's described as "trench-coated Sulejmen Talovic". I know it's horrible, but I wish his name had been something like Tom Smith or something.

Sounds like a Serbian or Bosnian name.

Me too! I'm just going to be incredibly cheesed off if it's the fugly presidential coins that finally succeed. The Sacajawea coins are so pretty!

I thought so, too! DH used to play quarter limit poker. The only exception was if you had a Sacagawea dollar, then they could say, "Sac it to me!" and raise the pot by $1. DH used to bring us home lots of pretty Sacagewea dollars.

I just don't understand the public's resistence.

Because pretty money, or coins for dollars, is too much like those furriners, and therefore UnAmerican, you silly commie pinko you.

Sounds like a Serbian or Bosnian name.

AKA, in Utah, "one of them damned foreigners who are wrecking god-fearing American life as we know it, and I bet he's an illegal, too."

No one will follow up to see if he was born in this country or not, because it's much nicer to settle back into the easy chair, mutter discontentedly, scratch your belly, and thank God for making you a superior person.

Can I go home for Mardi Gras now? I don't just want to leave for the day. I want to go back to Louisiana, get as debauched as I possibly can and make up for it for 40 days.

I have a project that is about to kill me with it's nitpickiness. It's like "Here, go through every page in this case and figure out what's wrong. Now, here's the other 717 you need to go through. Can you have it done end of the day tomorrow? Also, we changed something yesterday, so you'll have to go back and fix those too. Cheers!"

No one had anything to say about the puppy? He's at least as cute as anything on Cute Overload (still overlord in my head). I may be biased though.