The Advisor Advises

For those of you who are waiting with visible breath, the I (heart) Canadian Arctic Sovereignty shop is complete and ready for business! I am still working on the design for the black shirt, but everything else is ready to go. I have emailed info about the shop to the tourism offices in Nunavut, the Northwest Territory and the Yukon, my MP and the Prime Minister - so you better get yours before EVERYONE has them!

On another note, today was my last day at work - mixed feelings indeed.

On yet another note - on Saturday I went to a garage sale and picked up a little novelty magic trick box for a quarter - you know, the kind where you open the drawer and put in a coin, then you close the drawer and when you open it again it appears that the coin has disappeared. I thought Z would like it - he's getting old enough to find that kind of thing interesting. Not long after I had handed over the two bits and walked back to my car, I noticed that the coin inside wasn't a fake token, but an actual foreign coin. It turns out to be 5 lire from 1848 that looks exactly like the one listed here! I was happily surprised.

(PS: Welcome back to the Northern Hemisphere John!)