"What is here? Gold? Yellow, glittering, precious gold!" (Timon of Athens)

Good afternoon. Rhoda went to a luncheon today honoring the outgoing President of the City of Hope and hopefully, the incoming President, RH+. She's the person, after all, who has made all the arrangements for this luncheon and now 41 women are attending at La Luna in Boca. One of my first duties as First Gentleman of COH was to go to the bank today to deposit $3200 in donations. It was really scary carrying all that cash and checks around, and I thought I might take my starter's pistol for protection...formerly used to start H.S. track races. I changed my mind about taking it because all it can do is make a loud noise and people will start to run...maybe the mugger also.

After the bank, I went to Walmart to buy some envelopes to mail copies of ADDENDA II (my poetry book) to those idigents who could not afford to buy it for eleven bucks. The book is 6x9 and the manila envelopes must have been 6 & 8/9ths so that the book did not fit. If it says 6x9 on the envelope, you would think that something that's 6x9 should fit without squishing it. But no. I think the envelope was made in China. The book was made here. Maybe I can rent an envelope stretcher from Billy Berger who has everything. So that going to Walmart wouldn't be a total bust, I bought a package of double stuffed chocolate Oreos and some address labels. The Oreos will be much more nutritious. However, the address labels have no calories and no doubt, are healthier for you.

Getting away from Walmart and back to the bank, I asked the teller if she had any gold dollars to give me and fortunately she had six of them. The gold dollars being minted starting with our first President (not City of Hope, but USA...as if you didn't know). Then the plan is to continue with the second President and I was happy to find that among the six coins was one of President Adams! That's a really hard one to come up with. I am in love with gold coins, especially the dollar variety. I have lots of Eisenhauer dollars and Sacawagea dollars...but they are not gold. Of course the "gold" coin is not real gold...it's just golden colored (as if you didn't know).

Well, Rho just got home and the luncheon was a huge success. No complaints from 41 women? Maybe there's a God after all.