Poll #1065687
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When you find a discarded scratch ticket (not in a trash can), do you check if to see it is a winner mistakenly tossed aside?

<EDIT>That read be "check to see". Can't fix poll text.</EDIT>

For years now, the Canadian dollar has been growing stronger while the U.S. dollar has been growing weaker, with the U.S. Dollar dollar falling as low as C$1.0555 yesterday. Long gone are the days when traveling from the United States to Canada felt like winning the lottery in the currency exchange.

With the slump in stock prices and the now overtly worried fed things don't look to well for the United States. Add in the Chinese using threats of liquidating their U.S. debt holdings to ward off trade sanctions, I see no reason to believe that this trend will not continue. The Chinese threat, even if never acted on, demonstrates effectively the direness of the financial situation in the United States after almost 7 years of Bush's borrow and spend policies.

My prediction: Within the next 6 months, the Canadian dollar will surpass the U.S. dollar.

zarthon and purpleglitter came over Tuesday. zarthon made very yummy chili that fed me and merryperseis for several days. I see far too little of zarthon. I wish he'd come over more often.

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Yesterday dan4th came over. We discussed my conversation with Cyndi. He was very helpful. Again, I see far too little of dan4th. I wish he'd come over more often too.

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I had a very rough night last night and a rough day today. I'm going over and over all the bad things I've ever done and trying to accept them. What I'm really doing by doing this is driving myself crazy. Well, more crazy. I feel like a horrible nasty person not fit to live. Maybe Cyndi wasn't trying to help. Maybe she is just trying to torment me a new way. I don't know, but if that is her game, it is working.

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merrypersies took me out for Indian food at Punjab today. Spicy food always cheers me up. On the way back, I bought a lottery ticket. A few million dollars will be sure to cheer me up too.