It’s Friday and that normally means it is time to delve into the Sidewalker Mailbag, but this week we are still getting used to our new surroundings. Since the premature move from my old cyber-location last weekend I’ve been dying to try out some of the new features available to me on this template. Today I’d thought I’d draw your attention to the tabs at the top of this page. Next to the ‘Home’ tab you will see a new ‘Mail Room’ tab. Previously the only ways to get a question or suggestion to me was either via twitter or on the public comments section of the blog. Except of course for my ‘loyal correspondent‘ who used international diplomatic channels!

Well the playing field has been evened out for everyone. So if you have a sidewalking question, suggestion, situation or just want to have a a good old rant at me, please hit the Mail Room tab and check it out. Although it says name required in the automated form do not feel obliged to use your real name, that would seem hardly fair as I sit here typing surrounded in the flimsy blanket of security that is my ‘nom de blog’, Luke.

One word of warning though, any correspondence I receive via the Mail Room will be fair game for my future Mailbag posts.

I hope to roll out further enhancements to the blog when and where possible, but due to my track record with these things I will not be rushing into anything.

In other news the subscriber feed should be working now, fingers crossed.

Have a great weekend…

-Luke Sidewalker

-Current balance $24.41

It’s Friday, so it’s as good time as any to delve into the mailbag once more at Castle Sidewalker. After the flood the day before last the letters are a little damp, but still legible. This week I received a letter from Cap’n Tinkerson, for those of you not familiar with him you can find his bio by clicking this link. It is about half way down the list of miscreants!

Anyway this is what he had to say:

Lord Sidewalker,

Baltimore, the city of my residence, has introduced a new scheme for collecting charitable contributions for the homeless. They have placed a series of fake parking meters at random points on the sidewalk. (Note these parking meters are not near obvious parking spaces to avoid confusion). I assume they are recycling the old style parking meters which have been replaced by “pay and display”. I recently found a coin at the base of one of these charity collection devices. I shall not share my next action, but I am curious to know what you would do on discovering coinage in a similar location?

Regards,
Cap’n Tinkerson

LS: After recovering from my initial shock – people pay for parking in Baltimore? I settled down to consider the question at hand. The mantra we live by at Castle Sidewalker is; ‘Every coin has a home…in my pocket!’ But as you see not every situation is created equally. There is a low probability that this coin was dropped elsewhere and rolled to the base of the charity meter, therefore one would have to pick it up and proceed to deliver the coin to its intended location within said meter.

I’m not going to ask the good Cap’n to reveal his course of action, as I know he does a lot of good work for charity, and there is no way that the coin in question found it’s way into his chest full of booty.

In other news, this week I did an interview for one of my favorite blogs Red Pine Mountain. It is based on a rural outpost in Vermont, she has some lovely photographs and good posts. It is my ‘virtual’ escape from the concrete jungle that surrounds me. I’d like to thank the ‘Mountain Woman’ for the opportunity to be interviewed and the flattering lead-in she bestowed upon me. The full interview can be read by clicking here

Have a great weekend…

-Luke Sidewalker
-Current balance $24.23

You may remember about a month ago I had a particularly entertaining email from a self described Loyal Correspondent. We deduced he/she is from overseas and more than likely from the United Kingdom, due to his/her references of V.A.T. (Value Added Tax) which is their version of G.S.T.

Well, my published article last week about The Black Holes of Currency has once again drawn this mystery correspondent out of his/her hole.

I received the following email from them:

Dear Lord Sidewalker,

I suggest you stand next to a ‘hand-cranked press-a-penny souvenir machine’ with a large bag of foil wrapped chocolate pennies. By substituting the real thing for the much loved confection you will save the US legal system many headaches and also make a mint!!

As ever, your loyal correspondent…

LS: I thought this a very witty and ingenious suggestion to the issues I outlined in the article. However, it seems that our Loyal Correspondent has little knowledge of how attorneys operate here. Far from reducing their headaches, they spend most of their energies in seeking ‘headaches’ in order to rack up the billable hours.

My suggestion to cure the US legal system of ‘many headaches’ is very simple and easy to implement. Whenever a court case is found to be frivolous, just disbar the attorney representing the plaintiff. In no time at all we will have a more efficient and headache free legal system…

As long as the Loyal Correspondent keeps providing this humorous content, I’m left wondering whether or not to give them a regular guest spot here at the Sidewalker Journal. What do you think?

-Luke Sidewalker
-Current balance $24.06