Street fund
In 2011 I found 70 pennies, 14 nickels, 18 dimes, 11 quarters, and a 5-dollar bill, for a total of $10.95, which brings my total for the past 15 years to $336.47. I am going to invest it in steel mills when I retire.
Books
In 2011, I read 108 books in the following genres
- 3 biographies,
- 10 children's books,
- 1 epic,
- 8 collections of essays,
- 28 graphic novels,
- 12 histories,
- 14 memoirs,
- 22 novels,
- 4 plays and
- 6 books for young adults
These are my favorites for 2011.
- A Prayer for the Dying (novel) by Stewart O'Nan
- Fire Season (memoir) by Philip Connors
- Lost and Found (graphic novel) by Shaun Tan
- The Tiger's Wife (novel) by Téa Obhreht*
- Ghost World (graphic novel) by Daniel Clowes
- The Iliad (epic) by Homer, tr. Stephen Mitchell
- The Sense of an Ending (novel) by Julian Barnes*
4 comments:
I still don't understand how you spot all that money lying around. Good luck on your investment of it!
Interesting selection of reading material.
I keep my eyes on the ground around places where people take their wallets out: bus stops, subway entrances, etc.
Just read this is the LA Times this morning. http://www.latimes.com/health/la-he-myturn-spare-change-20120102,0,3484940.story
Ooops. Sorry that didn't make a clickable link. here is a link
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