Bill pictures

You have entered 80,745 Bills worth $235,133
Bills with hits: 6,620 Total hits: 7,531
Hit rate: 8.20% Slugging Percentage: 9.33% (total hits/total bills)
George Score: 1,228.83
Your rank (based on George Score) is #302
(out of 52,623 current users with a George Score. [99.4 Percentile])
Your State Rank in Florida is: 21 out of 7,631 [99.7]
Your initial entries with hits have traveled a total of 3,479,078 miles.
They have averaged 469.6 miles per hit and 185.46 days between each hit.

I uploaded the pictures I mentioned before, but I’m just now getting around to posting them here. Things have been a little hectic and strange with the store having closed last week. (I still have one or two issues unresolved.)

The first picture simply says to boycott Jane Fonda. It seems that there are a few groups that don’t like her. Of the first few returns on Google, one had to do with not liking liberals and another having to do with Viet Nam. I really don’t want to get into politics that much here, so I’ll leave that one alone.

The next one is of a bill stamped with FairTax.org. The site seems to call for a national sales tax. I’m not sure I completely support that, but I can see where the appeal is. Again, I don’t want to get in to every political debate I come across, so I’m going to post the link and let you decide.

I also came across one that just has LUX with a red rectangle around it. I don’t know what this is. If there were a few more similar ones, I’d say that people were stamping it’s travels or something, kind of like how people put stickers on suitcases. Does anyone know if it has a meaning beyond Luxembourg?

The last one comes from Janet somebody. I can’t make out the last name. It was handwritten in pencil, which makes it more difficult to read. This is another one of those bills that I seek explanation for.

That’s all for now. I know that there was something else I wanted to post. I know it will come to me later.

You have entered 79,017 Bills worth $231,717
Bills with hits: 6,541 Total hits: 7,441
Hit rate: 8.28% Slugging Percentage: 9.42% (total hits/total bills)
George Score: 1,227.31
Your rank (based on George Score) is #285
(out of 52,646 current users with a George Score. [99.5 Percentile])
Your State Rank in Florida is: 20 out of 7,617 [99.7]
Your initial entries with hits have traveled a total of 3,438,086 miles.
They have averaged 470.1 miles per hit and 184.57 days between each hit.

I haven’t been writing here a lot lately mostly because I’ve been busy closing the store. We had to make a final deposit, which wasn’t big per se, but I brought in some twenties to swap out for the coins and small bills. I did this mostly as a security precaution. Two of us had to take the deposit over and I didn’t want the person taking the deposit over to have to walk in with a ton of change. Even though we did it at the night depository, someone would have to count all of those coins.

I also wanted to get the small bills, which I noted were the last that the registers saw. If you hit one of my bills, you may see a user note referencing Wolf 1390. That’s one of the bills that I entered. The store closed a few days ago, but I didn’t get around to entering the bills until this morning. I had been going in early and getting home very late, so I didn’t have much time to enter them. The funny thing is that the next time I refreshed, I ended up with exactly 79,000 bills entered. (I’ve entered a few bills since, so it won’t reflect in the stats at the top of the page.)

I also got a hit with a user note referencing Belmont Park. I have a lot from Gulfstream Park in Hallandale, mostly because I spend so many there. With a little work, I could have a thing going with all the major race tracks.

I’ve uploaded the pictures that I mentioned a few posts ago. I may post them one at a time or I may just link to them. It’s not easy posting links directly from Flickr, so I may not post my stats if I do it that way. (What I may do in that case is to make a normal post and do a picture post directly after.)

No more job

You have entered 78,734 Bills worth $230,667
Bills with hits: 6,485 Total hits: 7,378
Hit rate: 8.24% Slugging Percentage: 9.37% (total hits/total bills)
George Score: 1,226.40
Your rank (based on George Score) is #303
(out of 52,717 current users with a George Score. [99.4 Percentile])
Your State Rank in Florida is: 22 out of 7,603 [99.7]
Your initial entries with hits have traveled a total of 3,405,676 miles.
They have averaged 469.5 miles per hit and 184.02 days between each hit.

It’s official. The store I work at is closing.

It’s kind of sad considering that this was the first real, permanent job I had. It’s also the job I had that allowed me to find out about Where’s George and enter so many bills. Yes, I know I would have found out about it anyway, but I may have grown bored with it if I didn’t have steady funding to back it up.

I’m going to miss the people I’ve worked with. There were a lot of people, may of which are no longer with the company. I’ll remember a lot of the regular customers, but not all of them fondly. (There was a sign that my friend’s parents had in their house. It read along the lines of, “Everyone brings joy to this house, some by coming and others by leaving.”)

It’s not very likely that I’ll be transferred, as there seem to be more employees than positions. I’ve been asking people if they know anyone that’s hiring, but everyone is worried about being laid off themselves. It’s a tough economy.

This blog doesn’t bring in much money, nor have many of my other endeavors. I may write on Epinions to bring in something and I will have unemployment to look forward to, but I have to find another steady paycheck, so if you know anyone’s who’s hiring…

Red-faced George

You have entered 78,632 Bills worth $230,537
Bills with hits: 6,473 Total hits: 7,364
Hit rate: 8.23% Slugging Percentage: 9.37% (total hits/total bills)
George Score: 1,226.20
Your rank (based on George Score) is #296
(out of 52,761 current users with a George Score. [99.4 Percentile])
Your State Rank in Florida is: 21 out of 7,598 [99.7]
Your initial entries with hits have traveled a total of 3,395,496 miles.
They have averaged 469.0 miles per hit and 183.84 days between each hit.

As predicted, my state rank is back in the twenties. I’m not surprised. I think everyone refreshed.

I’ve been finding a lot of interesting bills lately. This is the only one I have uploaded to Flickr so far. I know that this one is a little boring. Taking a magic marker to a $1 bill like this doesn’t take much effort. (There weren’t any markings on the back, although the ink seemed to bleed through.) I’ve seen more creative designs.

I’ll be editing and uploading others later tonight. Some are more political while some are harder to figure out.

You have entered 77,985 Bills worth $229,066
Bills with hits: 6,410 Total hits: 7,288
Hit rate: 8.22% Slugging Percentage: 9.35% (total hits/total bills)
George Score: 1,225.04
Your rank (based on George Score) is #293
(out of 52,626 current users with a George Score. [99.4 Percentile])
Your State Rank in Florida is: 19 out of 7,586 [99.7]
Your initial entries with hits have traveled a total of 3,360,998 miles.
They have averaged 469.1 miles per hit and 183.17 days between each hit.

When they opened a Five Guys Burger and Fries in Aventura Mall, I decided to have lunch there. I like their food and I have to think that getting bills into circulation at a mall is always a good thing.

The total comes out to $12.38. I give the cashier $13.08. She hands the eight pennies back to me. I try to tell her to keep the 8¢. What does she do? She puts the pennies in the tip jar. If I had given her three pennies, I could understand. When both amounts end in eight, it’s a little obvious.

I don’t know if she didn’t have much experience with a cash register or if it was that there was a line, but I don’t think she realized what I was trying to do. Since there was a line, I didn’t argue. I wasn’t going to make a scene over such a small amount of money.

In other news, I made it up to #17 in Florida. I got knocked back down to 19, but that’s ok. I expected it.

I’m probably going to go back to Five Guys. (Maybe even today.) If I get the same woman again, I’m not sure that I’ll bother with the pennies.

Dilemma

You have entered 77,387 Bills worth $227,993
Bills with hits: 6,389 Total hits: 7,266
Hit rate: 8.26% Slugging Percentage: 9.39% (total hits/total bills)
George Score: 1,224.62
Your rank (based on George Score) is #297
(out of 52,848 current users with a George Score. [99.4 Percentile])
Your State Rank in Florida is: 19 out of 7,579 [99.7]
Your initial entries with hits have traveled a total of 3,349,873 miles.
They have averaged 468.9 miles per hit and 183.03 days between each hit.

I’ve just passed 900 counties. By Where’s George standards, there are 3,142 including the District of Columbia. This means that I’m at roughly 28.686%. My next milestone will be 1,000, which would put me near a third. (1,044 would be exactly one third.)

I’m also still hovering above 20th place in Florida. I broke 300 overall, but I don’t know how long that will last. As I said before, overall rankings tend to fluctuate more than state ranks.

On a side note, I have an interesting math question. (I think it would fall under game theory and I don‘t know if there’s a definite answer.) My store is closing, but I don’t know when the exact date is. I want to use the time to get bills into circulation, but I don’t want them deposited and I don’t know if I’ll be there to swap them back out.

If I keep going until the bitter end, I get the maximum number of bills into circulation, but I know a lot of bills will get deposited. (For those wondering, deposits containing large quantities of marked bills tend to draw unwanted attention to the site, thus possibly resulting in account termination.) On the other hand, if I stop depositing now, I miss out on all the days that we’ll eventually be staying open.

The best scenario would be that the last bill we hand out is the last of my marked bills. Not having a crystal ball, I have no way of knowing how to time it. The question is: When should I stop swapping out bills? Should I play it safe and stop now? Should I go to the bitter end? Or is there some trick I can use to tell when to stop?

Any responses would be appreciated.

Top Twenty in Florida

You have entered 77,287 Bills worth $227,893
Bills with hits: 6,379 Total hits: 7,255
Hit rate: 8.25% Slugging Percentage: 9.39% (total hits/total bills)
George Score: 1,224.45
Your rank (based on George Score) is #301
(out of 52,796 current users with a George Score. [99.4 Percentile])
Your State Rank in Florida is: 18 out of 7,574 [99.8]
Your initial entries with hits have traveled a total of 3,344,734 miles.
They have averaged 468.9 miles per hit and 182.87 days between each hit.

I’ve hit 18th in Florida, which is a new high for me. I’ve been bouncing between 19 and 22, mostly as a result of people not refreshing. It looks like that’s what’s going on now. I’ll probably end up back down at 20 or below soon, depending on who refreshes and when. There are at least 3 people that could knock me down to 21 if they all refreshed at once.

I’m also at 301 overall. The Where’s George site has a top-user list, but it only goes down to 201. According to the Bank of Frank, it will probably be a bumpy ride. My George Score is within a point of several users. In fact, the last time that the site indexed my score, it had me at 299, so I have been in the top 300.

I’ll have to wait and see if the top-20 rank holds.

Jumbo Buffet Redux

You have entered 77,242 Bills worth $227,554
Bills with hits: 6,357 Total hits: 7,227
Hit rate: 8.23% Slugging Percentage: 9.36% (total hits/total bills)
George Score: 1,224.05
Your rank (based on George Score) is #310
(out of 52,789 current users with a George Score. [99.4 Percentile])
Your State Rank in Florida is: 21 out of 7,570 [99.7]
Your initial entries with hits have traveled a total of 3,328,317 miles.
They have averaged 468.7 miles per hit and 182.60 days between each hit.

Tonight, I had to take care of dinner for myself. I don’t like making stuff, which is why I prefer restaurants. It’s been a while since I’ve been to Jumbo Buffet. The last time I went, they refused my marked money. I had actually considered keeping large, unmarked bills with me for that purpose.

Before going to dinner, I went to the casino in Hallandale. I left with 25 singles, two marked fives and a marked $20. I was debating whether or not I should spend any of them in the casino. If I spent the singles, I knew that they’d be in circulation, leaving me with a safe bill to spend on dinner. On the other hand, I could put a twenty and a five into a machine, leaving me the marked singles. If I was wrong, I’d have to pay by debit, which is what I had to do.

I figured the safe thing to do was to keep all of the remaining bills. If the waitress refused the marked money again, I could give her the twenty and get change. (It would have been nice to have a fifty or hundred.) It’s been so long, I think that they’ve had enough turnover that few employees would recognize the bills. If the manager’s still there, though, he may have to remind everyone. I have this vision of me going there again and seeing a wanted poster on the wall saying that I’m banned from the place.