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It's not a very valuable collection...if I was lucky I might get $10 from the whole thing. Still, it was interesting to look at and hold those odd-looking coins and know that somewhere around the world they're as normal to some people as penny, nickels, dimes, and quarters are to me. Or used to be, since some of those coins are no longer valid with the introduction of the euro and such.

Check with an appraiser?

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Nah, I know they're not worth the effort...for one, if they were worth any money my father wouldn't have given them to me.

In any case, official weigh in today! I've lost six pounds in the last month...about the same as when I unofficially weighed myself last week, but adjusting to a new work schedule was hard and the time I was exercising before I usually ended up napping last week. >_>

Yeah, sticking to a schedule is hard, but you gotta do it!

I have to be at work at 8am. I'm not usually even awake at 8am, much less doing anything productive. >_>

Sleep earlier, wake up earlier, and exercise after work but before dinner.
Trust me, I have problems sticking to schedules as well, let's do this together.

Schedules are a big pain to look forward to. 

After all the bloodshed and destruction the Iraq war has caused, from both my own UK perspective and I am sure the feeling is the same for Americans, it is looking like Nouri Maliki will win the national elections and remain as Prime Minister. A result that surely won't be good for Iraq. It also brings about another reminder of what the purpose of the invasion of Iraq was and was it worth it.

This brings an interesting topic to the discussion.

Corruption is a major thing to watch out for and with one gaining control...

Unless, of course, on NS.

Maybe that's why you're back is in such bad shape. O_o

In any case, after cleaning some stuff out, I found a small coin collection that my father had given me about 10 or 12 years ago. I thought it would be interesting to identify the coins, so, after about an hour on the computer looking them up:

3 - Aladdin's Castle Arcade Tokens
2 - American Penny (1946, 1956)
1 - American Buffalo Nickel (Unknown Date)
1 - Bahamas 1-Cent Piece (1971)
1 - British 2-Pence Piece (1977)
4 - Canadian 1-Cent Pieces (1975, 1976, 1981, 1982, 1988)
1 - Canadian 5-Cent Pieces (1960, 1983, 1985)
1 - Canadian 10-Cent Piece (1988)
3 - Canadian 25-Cent Piece (1975, 1977, 1979)
1 - East Caribbean States 10-Cent Piece (1986)
1 - Generic "Wizard Troll, jumping for joy" token (1970+)
1 - Jamaica Half-Penny (1966)
2 - Japanese Yen (1946, 1991) (I think, using websites to translate the Japanese script and date format)
1 - Mexican Peso (1983)
1 - Missouri Sales Tax Receipt Coin (1930s?)
1 - Singaporean 1-Cent Piece (1981)
1 - Spanish Peseta (Authorized 1946, Issued 1952)
1 - Saudi 10 Halala Coin (Islamic year 1392 / 1972-1973)
1 - West German (Bundesrepublik Deutschland) 10 Pfennig (1982)

That's cool, I'm a bit of a collector myself. I've probably sunk a few paychecks worth into my collection. I've got a Morgan Dollar, a Victorian Crown and George II sixpence among a lot of other stuff (American and British mostly)

As you will all get to know, I am very interested in foreign affairs.

It is worrying to see the Hindu Nationalist Narendra Modi being elected as the Prime Minister of India. A man whose election victory will definitely mean India shifts to the right. A man who also has serious questions to answer about his role in the deaths of more than 1,000 people in the Gujarat religious riots in 2002.

How do you keep up with the political news, Stark?

How do you keep up with the political news, Stark?

Everyday I (try to) read the Independent or the Guardian and extensive use of BBC News. 

Well, it's because you're becoming my one and only source to the political world.

But there was that whole thing where the supreme court found him not guilty in relation to the riots of 2002... And he has answered a lot of the questions posed to him about them...