Archive for March, 2009

ACT 20 cent coin (and 867 and counting)

Tuesday, March 31st, 2009

Ok, so I haven’t got a record number of coins, up to 867 now but this week I did get one I haven’t had before. There are quite a few different coins (all the different Australian 20 cent coins) and I don’t have every one yet but today I got an ACT Centenary of Federation [...]

Almost forgot the progress a update

Wednesday, March 25th, 2009

So I had a couple of extra sources this week
-My friend had another 87 coins at work
-And started feeding me some more at the pub
-And my wife started keeping a few for me now.
-And of course, I still manage to pick up a few. And event more that normal when I do work travel, which [...]

Random Goals - Breaking down big tasks.

Wednesday, March 25th, 2009

When you’ve got a long task ahead it’s nice to break it up into smaller tasks. So I’ve started up a little page of random goals. As tall as a human? tree? Have you got any other suggestions? Wonders of the world? Buildings?
So if you have any pictures and heights/weights of random things send them [...]

Cash Bonanza!

Saturday, March 14th, 2009

So my friend was a little more excited about my 20 cents than I expected and turned up last night with 166 20 cent coins in a bag. So that brings my total to 839!

So believe it or not, I’m not alway proud of my nerdy endeavors. Say like collecting 20 cent coins and creating a website on it. It’s kinda nerdy (yes believe it or not) so I don’t always tell all my friends. But with a bit of social lubricant, a few beers, 2 G&T’s and some [...]