Excuses and Other Stuff

by Luke Sidewalker on April 3, 2010

“They seek him here, they seek him there, they seek that rascal Sidewalker everywhere…”

Where have I been? There have been a number of hypotheses circulating the internet. Rumors abound! I had died of food poisoning after eating my Nachos a la Sidewalker watching the Superbowl. I had unwittingly bent down to pick up a dull penny in the path of an oncoming bus and met my untimely demise. A major news outlet had discovered my true identity and I was forced to enter the ultra secretive Sidewalker Protection Program (SPP).

As amusing as the rumors are, none of them are true. I’ve been lazy with my sidewalking, and the coin finds have not been coming as often as before. I got tied up being a Dad to Sidewalker Jr. and Little Miss Sidewalker, and a husband to Mrs. Sidewalker, as well as nursing Castle Sidewalker through the dark days of Winter. All of which create their own (very welcome) set of challenges. My ‘hibernation’ has not been without coin finds, the fund now stands at $27.18.

So what did I miss while I’ve been gone? Well looking at the stock market about 15% of upside. Not sure our local economy warrants that exuberance, is it any better in your local area? I want to thank those of you, that through the many social networking avenues we have at our disposal today, have tried to prod and cajole this sleeping Sidewalker back to consciousness (no need to name names, you know who you are). Your jibes and encouragement have added warmth to what has been a brutal winter. I’d like to sit here and use a cliche or two about my batteries being recharged, and that I’m back and will be better than ever, but to be brutally honest with you my dear reader, I can only attest to the fact that I’m back; for now anyway…

Oh, and of course Happy Easter to everyone.

-Luke Sidewalker
-Current balance $27.18

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Nachos a la Sidewalker

by Luke Sidewalker on February 7, 2010

The weather and  not finding too many coins have combined to make posting on the blog rather challenging over the past couple of weeks. So with today’s big sporting event, Superbowl XLIV between the Indianapolis Colts and the New Orleans, I thought I’d take this opportunity to take you down into the kitchens at Castle Sidewalker. I’m not much of a cook, and I never really make anything from scratch, but I do consider myself a good ‘combiner’. I’m going to share with you my favorite game time snake.

This is what you will need,  real cooks call it ingredients I believe:

Directions:

Get a baking tray and line it with some aluminum foil. Then lay out the scoops. Take the salsa and add a teaspoonful to each scoop. Now cover each scoop with a pinch of the shredded cheese. This should take less than 5 minutes. Then place the baking tray under the broiler for 2-5 minutes depending on how done you want the cheese. Take out from the broiler and place on a serving dish  with a some sour cream on the side.

And voila, you have just made Nachos a la Sidewalker! All in under 10 minutes. This is great snack not just for Superbowl Sunday, but for anytime you need to come up with something quick. Enjoy the game…

-Luke Sidewalker

-Current balance $26.65

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Month End Report January ‘10

January 31, 2010

Days since inception: 761
Cash balance: $26.39 (all time)
Cents per day: 3.4678(since inception)
Predicted day for $1,000,000: Thursday 10th April 80,960 AD
1/31/2010
$1,000,000
= 924.38 oz of Gold @ $1081.80 (as per Nymex close near month)
= 13,766.52 barrels of oil @ $72.64 (as per Nymex close Light Sweet Crude near month)
= 61,747.45 oz of Silver @ $16.195 (as per [...]

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The Winds of Change

January 25, 2010

We woke up this morning to some howling winds which are rocking Castle Sidewalker to the foundations. Our garbage bins have been relocated to the next county overnight, and the fence that guards the perimeter of the Castle grounds is bending at an alarming angle as I type. The only good news is that the [...]

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Shopping with Sidewalker #6

January 15, 2010

It’s the 15th of the month which means it is time to try to add a modicum of respectability to this financial powerhouse of a blog, as opposed to the inane drivel that is splattered across these pages the rest of the month. Yes that’s right, I’ve been shopping again/collecting data!
In a shocking turn of [...]

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A Remote Case of Anxiety

January 12, 2010

It’s bee an anxious few days at Castle Sidewalker. We don’t have many luxuries here but I would count the TV remote control as one of them. It even has it’s own name ‘Frank’, after Frank Zappa (tenuous I know, but it’s what I have grown up with!). Anyway, sometime during the Jets win over [...]

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A Tale of Two Pennies (1982)

January 11, 2010

Following on from my previous post about  the nickel and pre-1982 penny being the most valuable coins when judged by the metal content metric I received the following email from my ‘Loyal Correspondent‘.
Dear Lord Sidewalker,
In your post dated January 6th 2010 you stated that the pre-1982 penny was worth 2.2 cents due to it’s make up [...]

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Five Nickels or a Quarter?

January 6, 2010

For arguments sake let’s say you walk into a store and buy a widget for 75 cents. You dutifully hand over a dollar bill to the store owner, he then apologizes because he has no quarters or dimes and has to make change using five nickels instead. You huff and puff but except the five [...]

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Month End Report December ‘09

January 3, 2010

Days since inception: 730
Cash balance: $25.78 (all time)
Cents per day: 3.5315(since inception)
Predicted day for $1,000,000: Sunday 29th February 79,536 AD
12/31/2009
$1,000,000
= 913.07 oz of Gold @ $1095.20 (as per Nymex close near month)
= 12,600.80 barrels of oil @ $79.36 (as per Nymex close Light Sweet Crude near month)
= 54,445.96 oz of Silver @ $16.822 (as per [...]

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10 Predictions for 2010

December 31, 2009

No self-respecting blogger can let New Years Eve go by without a list of predictions for the coming year. So I hope you are sitting comfortably and enjoy reading my ‘visionary’ list.

Eldorado, the lost city of Gold, is finally located and it’s location rather surprisingly is right next door to Castle Sidewalker. However the discovery [...]

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