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More money than even your ex-wife has

Money keeps getting "bigger". This guy wants more than I make in a month! Way more than a trillion! I would like to know if you make any other denominations for the funny money? If so, I would like to know about a One Hundred Googolplex Dollar Bill or just a One Googolplex Dollar Bill. If you have them, then how much for a 25 pack? Thank You. MY RESPONSE I will suggest this to our supplier. We get most of these novelty bills from a guy in Chicago who knows another guy in Chicago who apparently makes them in his basement. They have a more realistic feel than the ones we get elsewhere. I am kind of at his mercy, I had begged him to make some Sarah Palin money, could have sold tons of those. How much is a googolplex anyway? It sounds like a good name for an internet cafe.

Optimism is a bad thing

I got the new 2009 version of Quicken, I don't know where I got the idea that they would have made it more svelte, and it wouldn't have that annoying habit of reserving a big rectangle for the quicken logo in the middle of the screen, preventing me from doing other computer stuff while waiting (and waiting) for it to load. I mean, they could have made it a thing on the side instead, at the very least. Tried to sell the wife on a poor man's multi-monitor setup, which involves getting an old laptop do do the easy stuff on the same desk, but unfortunately she thought of an even cheaper version of that idea, which involves playing solitaire on the computer desk with a real deck of cards. Oh well, at least I get to cheat that way.

Welcome to Bedford Falls

My sister is concerned about her savings at Washington Mutual. I set her straight, her money is federally insured to 100 grand, and between me, her, and everyone on my street, except the Pederson's on the corner, couldn't come up with 100 thousand dollars. So it's not really an issue. I wonder how many other people do not know about FICA? I think it says something about that right on the bank door. I just looked and they have 176 Washington state WAMU openings posted at Monster.com - One of the openings is "Operational Excellence Black Belt" which is kind of cool, but how would they be able to lay that guy off later? You would get your ass kicked.

Recession? It's not a depression.

From "WebProNews"; Yahoo's Molly McCall at The Buzz Log reports that Yahoo searches have spiked in the past week regarding that rather unpleasant term. See, put it out there it just grows. She writes: "Over the past seven days, searchers propelled queries on 'economic recession' and 'recession' upwards. Lookups like 'last u.s. recession' and 'recession proof jobs' spiked. ..." ... See kids, you know how "recess" is when you go outside and the big kids take your lunch money? A recession is kind of like payback, all the bullies whine because nobody has any lunch money to steal, so they can't buy all the cool new toys that come out. Otherwise everything is about the same.