Greetings and welcome to today's random thought.
Well another pile of days has slipped by without a blog entry (sigh). Even now I don't have much to type about really. I took half a day of vacation yesterday and the wife took this opportunity to shop for my Christmas present. She took the son with her so the daughter and I took off to return some library books and dvds and to to a little shopping / looking ourselves. After getting out of our subdivision I realized I had forgotten my library card. I did not really want to back track and get it (and I do have a nice book I bought a few weeks ago to read) so I planned on just returning our checked out items. On the way into the library I saw 2 pennies on the sidewalk. I pointed them out to the daughter and asked her if she wanted to pick them up. I could tell that one of them was a wheat penny (1909 - 1958). When she handed it to me I was shocked to see that it was so old...
Even though it was over 80 years old, this penny is not worth much. Still it is exciting though to find old coins in general circulation. You have to wonder how many times this penny has been used over the years. How many things it has purchased or piggy banks has it sat in?
We did attend to Christmas parties in the last week (ABF on Saturday and one for coworkers on Wednesday). We had a great time at each one and managed to walk away with a 9 piece wine cork screw type kit that was pretty cool (I am quite sure it was a re-gift though) and the wife scored some Godiva chocolates (which she has subsequently hidden from me). Its only 5 days ‘til Christmas so she should be good for goodness sake! I will try to squeeze a few more blogs in before New Year's.
Thanks for reading my Random Thoughts.
Jon
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