GodsendJen

I noticed a little something extra on a $20 today.  It had several stamps in red ink.  One was a cute little red flower, the others direct you to "track" the money at the website Where's George.

Maybe I'm just gulible, but I went to the website and entered in my $20s serial number.  The person who "stamped" it had freed it from a Suntrust near my house.  I had gotten in either in change from a local merchant or from a teller at my Bank Of America branch down the road.  The concept is interesting. You can track any bill you want in the database and register to get updates on bills you've entered.  Of course you have to deface the currency in some manner hoping to instruct the next user to go put in some information about the bill as well.  I think having a life (and largely using my debit card everywhere) will probably be enough to deter me from marking up other bills that might come into my wallet...but it could be interesting to see where this little $20 goes from here.

For anyone interested their is also a Where's Willy site to track the currency of Canada. That site is tracking 1,716,693 bills totally $25,791,580 (Canadian). The US site tracks 84,295,862 bills totalling $472,849,798.

Now, can someone tell me who Willy is?  I'm afriad I know little about Canadian history.

In unrelated news I finally got out to a Braves game this year.  The game was sometimes exciting despite our loss.  That disapointment was offset by great company and fireworks.