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After I was through rolling up all those pennies, I figured I might as well roll up the rest of my coins. I had a lot more than I thought, and it added up to a lot more than I thought it would.

How much does this look like?

Would you believe that is $177.50 in just coins? I guess I don’t use as many coins as I thought I did. They usually sit in my pocket and get tossed into the dish at the end of the day. Over time, this adds up to a lot of money. I was most surprised that I had $70 in quarters alone. I gotta go hit up an arcade…

I was cleaning my room last week, and I found a whole bunch of change all over the place. I keep a little dish on my desk that I toss coins into when I empty my pockets at the end of the day. I also have an old basket that I stole from Quizno’s that I used to keep coins in that I found while cleaning.

I figured I would roll up the coins to get a bit more organized, and I was surprised that I had over 1000 pennies! Having one thousand of anything is a lot, but when it’s money, it seems a lot more exciting. Here’s what $10 in pennies looks like:

I have never really liked tea. A lot of friends I went to school with and a lot of my current coworkers are big tea drinkers. I’m actually not a fan of any hot drinks, really. I like a bit of hot chocolate here and there, and I’ve gotten into the coffee lately at work, but I’ve never been the type of guy to drink hot drinks.

I recently read an article about tea’s healthy benefits, with all the flavonoids and antioxidants and stuff, so I decided I would try it out. The only tea I’ve ever really had was iced tea. At my work, we have this fancy Flavia machine that makes single serving coffee and tea. I don’t really think the drinks it makes are great quality, since it’s pretty much just instant coffee/tea. But it’s decent enough to get by.

While I was cleaning my room the other day, I found a bunch of fancy teas I got from this crazy girl I know. I’ve decided I’m going to do a little experiment and try a different tea on different days to see if I like any of them. The teas I have are all jasmine green teas and fancy stuff like that. They are produced by Choice Organic Teas, and they look expensive, so they are probably fancy, proper teas.

Over the next little while, I’ll try out these fancy teas, and we’ll see if I become a tea connoisseur.

My new favourite website of the week is sleeveface.com. The creators describe it as:

“one or more persons obscuring or augmenting any part of their body or bodies with record sleeve(s) causing an illusion”

Basically, people take pictures of themselves or others, while holding up a record sleeve to cover up part of the image, creating a neat effect like this.

It’s a pretty simple idea, but I’m impressed at the quality of a lot of them. Some are very clever, some are straightforward and some are just plain weird.

There’s a lot of neat angles and perspectives used in some of the photos, which creates some pretty cool effects.

It’s a cool, creative idea, and it’s well executed. I suggest you check it out.

I didn’t sleep very well last night because I kept having nightmares. It was the weirdest thing. I woke up 3 or 4 times all sweaty and kinda freaked out. Each nightmare was almost the same as the last, and they all involved something or someone trying to kill me.

In each dream, there was some invisible force or something that was keeping me held down in my bed. It was one of those weird cases where I woke up in my dream, but I was really still sleeping in real life. I thought I was awake, but I was paralyzed and couldn’t untangle myself from my sheets or get up out of bed. The whole time, there was this feeling of impending doom and a sense that I was facing my death.

My very last nightmare of the night started out the same way, but this time I was able to sit up, only to see the Grim Reaper sitting at the foot of my bed, with his long, bony finger pointing at me. I recall trying to punch him and yell, but I was paralyzed, just looking at this dark figure pointing at me and not saying a word.

When I awoke, I was freaked out, but I had a sense of relief that I wasn’t dead. I’m counting on it just being my imagination going crazy while I slept, but is there a hidden meaning? Was I visited by Death himself?