Project: Pay Off Student Loan is in effect. I need some ideas that don’t involve work. I’ve decided on:

• gambling
• selling my least useful body parts to science (good-bye, baby toes!)
• manufacturing and selling cat merchandise
• entering any and every contest with a cash prize
• more gambling

The bank ripped me off 20 cents in my roll of laundry quarters today. Opened them up to do my wash and what did I find, but a lousy nickel in between the other coins. Sure, half the quarters they gave me were American, but when I’m using them for laundry, I’m unlikely to enjoy the exchange rate. Lousy bank! They’re a shifty lot. That’s the economy for you.

And that’s my old man rant for today.