And the leader sings bass...

Amusing musical commentary on The Hobbit trailer.

Here's the real trailer.

Instant cash rewards...

Love it when fate has an instant payback.

For the task of cleaning up my bedroom, I found a wallet I'd used when travelling last year. Inside was $120.00 in cash.

Bonus! Tidy bedroom and money!

Hawkeye and Methos...

I used the rather small picture of the cover of Avengers: Hawkeye - Solo TPB that was in Marvel Previews #101, and framed it for my wall. It took the place of the picture of Peter Wingfield that was by the kitchen, and now that picture is in the bedroom.

I love rearranging my art.

More serendipity...

Another discovery of lost treasure, and nothing this time to do with cleaning up.

I have had a tendency, all my life, to lose jewellry. Cheap or expensive, it doesn't matter. I stopped wearing rings entirely because of that - there was a pearl ring my mother gave me when I was about twelve that I still grieve. Some family heirlooms, too. Earrings tend to fall out even if I have doubled the catchpiece, or added the little plastic bits.

Necklaces generally stay on, unless they break. So I like to wear them.

So I had a gold necklace I'd bought last January in the Caribbean. I noticed one day that the catch was loose. "I'd better get that fixed before I lose it," I said to myself. But I didn't take it off. By the end of the day, it was gone. I had nothing to replace it with.

That was about four months ago. I hoped it would turn up in the apartment, but... no. I'd been out and about that day, on the bus, to various places. I assumed it was gone forever.

I found it just now, lost in the cushions of my favourite chair.

First money, now this. What will I find next?

...Too bad I haven't lost any million-dollar bills recently.

Can I spare a dime?

I found more money this morning. In wiping the water from my bathroom floor after showering, I found a dime.

First, $120.00 in bills. Then a gold chain. Now a dime. Okay, I know that finding a stray coin on the floor isn't particularly rare, but I'm hoping to encourage this trend.