My new toy

[susandennis]

I just Paypal'ed pounds for the first time. I guess I've never bought anything from another country with PayPal before but I needed to reward clever code and so I clicked on the Paypal button and voila! I'm spending royal coinage. It reminds me of the first time my Dad used an ATM in a foreign country.

I think we were in Germany and he stuck his card in and punched in his secret code and got marks and got a technology buzz that lasted for days. There are whole parts of the German countryside that to this day carry the soundtrack of my father's joyful amazement. 'Did you see that they had MY name on the screen??!! And the machine knew I didn't want U.S. Dollars!! It's amazing! Did you see that?'

He later got as far as the fax, technology wise. He stopped short of the computer - never could figure out why that was a good thing and died before he did. But, I digress.

The poundage was caused by mock2's LiveJournal Toys. It's way too much fun and so interesting.

In my next life, if I can't come back as a rocket scientist in a supermodel's body (who is also aellia's granddaughter), I'm going to code jockey so I can create cool stuff like this.