Lots of hits

You have entered 74,004 Bills worth $218,271
Bills with hits: 6,031 Total hits: 6,851
Hit rate: 8.15% Slugging Percentage: 9.26% (total hits/total bills)
George Score: 1,218.07
Your rank (based on George Score) is #325
(out of 52,031 current users with a George Score. [99.4 Percentile])
Your State Rank in Florida is: 23 out of 7,510 [99.7]
Your initial entries with hits have traveled a total of 3,118,272 miles.
They have averaged 463.3 miles per hit and 179.05 days between each hit.

I was surprised by a hit I had earlier today. The bill originated in Las Vegas, but was hit in Fort Lauderdale. At first, I thought that the bill had followed me home. I had spent the last of the Las Vegas-entered bills in the Salt Lake City airport. It wasn’t until about an hour ago that I realized that the hit was on a $5 bill, a few of which I had brought back with me.

I did get two hits in foreign countries. One was in Austria; the other was in El Salvador. Purple hits are hard to come by. I guess having spent bills in several airports recently helped.

In other news, I’m almost three-quarters of the way to six figures. I now have just over 74,000 bills entered, fewer than 2,000 of which have been entered this month. I’d have to get almost 200 bills tomorrow to break 2,000 bills this month. (Not an impossible task, mind you.) I’m $424 shy of $10,000, which would mean that I’d have to get at least some of those bills in fives. (Twos would be nice, though.)

My average dollar value so far this month is $5.24. The reason that I have such a high dollar value with so few bills is that I was entering a lot of twenties and hundreds in Las Vegas. (I don’t think I came across a fifty while there, but I did have cause to enter a ten.) I was aiming for smaller bills for a while, but I realized that there was little point since it was so easy to get change.

It’s getting late and I need to get some sleep. I’ll probably have a few more interesting hits in a few days.

6,000 bills and 860 counties with hits

You have entered 73,983 Bills worth $218,110
Bills with hits: 6,007 Total hits: 6,825
Hit rate: 8.12% Slugging Percentage: 9.23% (total hits/total bills)
George Score: 1,217.69
Your rank (based on George Score) is #325
(out of 51,862 current users with a George Score. [99.4 Percentile])
Your State Rank in Florida is: 22 out of 7,509 [99.7]
Your initial entries with hits have traveled a total of 3,091,761 miles.
They have averaged 460.8 miles per hit and 178.85 days between each hit.

I’ve passed 6,000 bills with hits, which I suppose is a good milestone to pass. Unfortunately for my hit rate, I’ve entered over 70,000 bills, which puts me at 8.12%. I also have 860 counties between the fifty states and the District of Columbia. It seems like the counties are harder to get now, which is understandable.

I have every county in Florida south of Alachua County, which is where Gainesville is. Alachua has plenty of hits, but I need three of the neighboring counties: Bradford, Union and Gilchrist. That’s the kind of stuff that gets me. I have 21 hits in Alachua, but they can’t travel over to any one of those three counties and get a hit. I’m sure that I have at least one in each county. It’s just that someone has to look at one of my bills and get to a computer in that county.

Yes, I’ve thought of going to Gainesville, but it’s a college town. They have malls and an aquarium, I think, but there’s no real reason for me to go there. It’s not like Orlando, which has Disney World. Aside from which, I don’t know that I want to make that kind of drive just to get hits. If I had to go to Tallahassee or Pensacola, I might consider going that way and planning on having lunch there.

All things considered, 860 isn’t a bad number of counties. 57 Florida counties isn’t bad considering that I only need 10 more.

Sick Day

You have entered 73,959 Bills worth $217,990
Bills with hits: 5,983 Total hits: 6,799
Hit rate: 8.09% Slugging Percentage: 9.19% (total hits/total bills)
George Score: 1,217.30
Your rank (based on George Score) is #324
(out of 51,753 current users with a George Score. [99.4 Percentile])
Your State Rank in Florida is: 21 out of 7,505 [99.7]
Your initial entries with hits have traveled a total of 3,071,730 miles.
They have averaged 459.5 miles per hit and 178.21 days between each hit.

I have 1,781 bills entered so far this month. I have a few large bills to break, but with the month ending so soon, it looks like most of the bills I’ve entered this month will be in Las Vegas. The bronchitis has really kept me indoors.

I had taken a few sick days before going and am taking one today. I’m not really in any condition to go to the bank and get change. Tomorrow or Saturday, I may go over to the bank or to the casino. (I haven’t been to the casino since getting back from my trip.)

The hits from Las Vegas seem to be waning. I haven’t seen any in the past day or two, but I did get one in Freeport, Grand Bahama Island. I don’t get many foreign hits, but my proximity to the Caribbean means that many of my foreign hits will be there. (The single most hit foreign country is Canada with 20 with the Bahamas rank second with 16.)

That’s all for now. At least one good thing came about from being sick: I can catch up on my writing. I may even post a few reviews on Epinions.

You have entered 73,954 Bills worth $217,850
Bills with hits: 5,952 Total hits: 6,758
Hit rate: 8.05% Slugging Percentage: 9.14% (total hits/total bills)
George Score: 1,216.69
Your rank (based on George Score) is #330
(out of 51,685 current users with a George Score. [99.4 Percentile])
Your State Rank in Florida is: 22 out of 7,497 [99.7]
Your initial entries with hits have traveled a total of 3,053,813 miles.
They have averaged 459.4 miles per hit and 177.75 days between each hit.

The hits from Las Vegas keep coming. I was a little worried that the casinos wouldn’t get them back out, but people are commenting that they’re getting them from the casinos. I got one today from the Tropicana. They’re getting out pretty fast.

I posted pictures from the trip, viewable here. It’s not all of them, but they’re some of the ones I think are among the best. I saw people out there with digital SLRs. I almost wish I had brought by D50, but it was probably best that I didn’t. I have several lenses and I would have wanted to bring them all. That would have meant having to drag around a pretty big bag of stuff. I could have gotten away with the Sigma 28-90 and the Sigma 10-20, I suppose. I don’t remember any situations where I would have wanted to use the Nikkor 35-135, but I probably would have if I had brought it.

I also got a Canadian hit. I don’t have many of those. I always find it odd that people will get the bill so close to me and take it far away like that. They do seem to be a registered user, so it is understandable. They may have understood that I’d want the far-away hit.

Then there's this hit. It looks like they’ve gotten one of my bills before. I don’t recognize the profile, but I don’t always look at all of them and it’s possible that the profile’s changed since I last looked at it.

Anyway, three entries in four days is a lot for me. That’s all I have for now.

More on Las Vegas

You have entered 73,951 Bills worth $217,800
Bills with hits: 5,939 Total hits: 6,743
Hit rate: 8.03% Slugging Percentage: 9.12% (total hits/total bills)
George Score: 1,216.47
Your rank (based on George Score) is #329
(out of 51,627 current users with a George Score. [99.4 Percentile])
Your State Rank in Florida is: 22 out of 7,496 [99.7]
Your initial entries with hits have traveled a total of 3,045,490 miles.
They have averaged 459.1 miles per hit and 177.65 days between each hit.

I’ve been getting more hits from the Las Vegas trip. Here's another one that seems to have come from the airport. I was going to post links to two hits from the same person until I got another set of hits from the same person, this time four.

I also got a hit from someone in the chat room. He was waiting until 10:30 to tell everyone. (Somehow, I knew it was me.) This is at least the second person in the chat room I’ve gotten a hit from, the other person being my george parent. (For those that don’t know, a george parent is the person who’s bill got you started if that’s how you found out about the site.)

My george parent is also one of at least two regulars in the room whose bills I’ve hit, the other person being Wattsburg Gary, the person with the highest george score and the most bills entered. I have this odd feeling that I’ve hit bills from others in the chat room. I’m sure if they see this, they’ll let me know.

You have entered 73,829 Bills worth $217,575
Bills with hits: 5,919 Total hits: 6,720
Hit rate: 8.02% Slugging Percentage: 9.10% (total hits/total bills)
George Score: 1,216.11
Your rank (based on George Score) is #326
(out of 51,602 current users with a George Score. [99.4 Percentile])
Your State Rank in Florida is: 20 out of 7,495 [99.7]
Your initial entries with hits have traveled a total of 3,026,305 miles.
They have averaged 457.7 miles per hit and 177.85 days between each hit.

Not two days back and I got three hits from the Vegas trip. This was the first hit. I’m pretty sure it was a direct hit, as I spent a lot of bills in the MGM Grand, but I was staying across the street. It’s entirely possible that someone took it from the Tropicana and walked it over to the MGM.

The second one was indirect. I guess it got to see more of Vegas than I did. I’m not complaining, though.

I’m thinking that the third bill was spent at an airport. It was entered late on my last full day in Vegas and I know that I spent my last bill from the trip in the Salt Lake City airport. (I spent none of my Vegas-entered bills outside of an airport; I ate breakfast at Las Vegas’s McCarran Airport.)

It’s interesting, though, how I got a hit at the MGM and I got a hit on a bill that I got from the MGM so close together. Some might say it’s coincidence, which I’m generally not amazed by. (This is due mostly to a strong belief in math.) I’m hoping that I get many more hits in and from Las Vegas.

Back from Vegas

You have entered 73,707 Bills worth $217,365
Bills with hits: 5,910 Total hits: 6,710
Hit rate: 8.02% Slugging Percentage: 9.10% (total hits/total bills)
George Score: 1,215.93
Your rank (based on George Score) is #327
(out of 51,614 current users with a George Score. [99.4 Percentile])
Your State Rank in Florida is: 21 out of 7,492 [99.7]
Your initial entries with hits have traveled a total of 3,016,311 miles.
They have averaged 456.7 miles per hit and 177.69 days between each hit.

I’m back in Miami. It’s good to be back, but I was just getting used to being in Las Vegas. I actually thought about doing a blog entry in Vegas, but the laptop I had wasn’t really meant for typing. Also, I was too busy getting bills into circulation. (That should be read as gambling.)

I now have 1,265 bills entered in Las Vegas. (1,255 in 89109 and 10 in 89119.) This is more than I have entered in my work ZIP code of 33181. The only two ZIP codes with more bills entered are 33161 (67,517) and 33180 (3,900), which are my home ZIP code and Aventura, respectively.

I did get to meet the fellow georgers that went to Las Vegas. I think I would have been better off staying in the Imperial Palace, mostly out of practicality. (If you do stay at the Tropicana, I found the Garden Café to be better than the buffet. It ended up costing about the same or less and had better food.) I didn’t realize how great the distances were in Vegas.

In Miami, a difference of 100 in house numbers equates to one block, so that 345 N 1 St is between 3rd and 4th Avenues. This isn’t necessarily true in all places. Add to that that one block may be longer or shorter. When I saw that there was a difference of 300 or 400 in the addresses of the two hotels, I incorrectly assumed that the two hotels were much closer than they were.

I also learned to stay away from the table games. For my purposes, slots were much better. I got more game play per dollar. I got to play roulette, which I had wanted to do, but you can go through money pretty quickly.

On a related note, if you plan on playing the slots, sign up for the players’ card. I was advised by several people to sign up everywhere I gambled, but this may prove to be a hassle. I actually signed of at Circus Circus and never used the card. At the very least, you should sign up at the hotel where you’re staying.

All things considered, I’d say it went pretty well. It was a bit strange being on my own for a week. Vegas is definitely better with friends. I managed on my own, but it is nice to do things with people, and there are things to do in Vegas other than gambling. I’d definitely want to go back.

You have entered 72,433 Bills worth $209,694
Bills with hits: 5,841 Total hits: 6,628
Hit rate: 8.06% Slugging Percentage: 9.15% (total hits/total bills)
George Score: 1,214.44
Your rank (based on George Score) is #327
(out of 51,409 current users with a George Score. [99.4 Percentile])
Your State Rank in Florida is: 23 out of 7,471 [99.7]
Your initial entries with hits have traveled a total of 2,977,440 miles.
They have averaged 456.0 miles per hit and 176.33 days between each hit.

Well, I won’t be at a hundred percent when I go to Vegas, but I will be going on Wednesday. It looks like everyone else going will be arriving Thursday, which will give me a day to rest. I’ve been managing at work, so I should be able to manage to go out with everyone. I’ll probably need some Dayquil, as I only have a few days’ pills left for the cough. (I’ve been able to manage at night without them.)

I won’t disclose exactly how many singles I’m bringing out, but I’m bringing plenty. I’m also bringing some larger bills for several reasons. One, I don’t want to carry too many singles. Two, I want to be able to enter some bills out in Las Vegas. I will probably change my default ZIP code to that of the hotel to make things easier. The point of having a default ZIP code is to avoid errors in entry. One side effect is that I will be number five in the state of Nevada. The fourth-ranking person has a George Score of 1,214.53, which is just above my score.

And so, in a few days, I head out to the City of Lost Wages.

'Your Bills' Summary Statistics - Hide
You have entered 72,286 Bills worth $208,945
Bills with hits: 5,768 Total hits: 6,546
Hit rate: 7.98% Slugging Percentage: 9.06% (total hits/total bills)
George Score: 1,213.17
Your rank (based on George Score) is #329
(out of 50,843 current users with a George Score. [99.4 Percentile])
Your State Rank in Florida is: 20 out of 7,449 [99.7]
Your initial entries with hits have traveled a total of 2,926,915 miles.
They have averaged 454.1 miles per hit and 175.08 days between each hit.

This is going to be a short post. I haven’t been feeling well the past few days, but I wanted to at least post something, especially considering that I hit my hundredth bill two days ago. I also entered over 3700 bills last month, valued at $12,278. That’s a record on both counts.

Because of this cold, I had to take the day off from work. I barely have enough energy to stamp the bills I have, let alone go into work. I’ve also been coughing a lot, which makes me pretty much useless. My manager told me to take the day off.

I’m hoping that I’ll be well enough to go to Vegas next week. I should be, considering that I’m getting a little better. I should be ok.

That’s going to be all for now. I’ll have another post when I’m feeling better.