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Oh. My. Nerves
Well the "Celebrity Child Naming" Bar has just been raised... or lowered depending on your point of view. I thought they'd hit a new low when Gwynneth Paltrow named her daugher Apple.
Nicholas Cage has named his newborn son Kal-El Coppola Cage. Right. That's quite a mouthful, just to say the name but ... naming your kid after Superman?? And...Kalel without the dash turns up on google as a computer virus/worm. *snort*
On the plus side, Canadians traveling to the UK are getting a stunningly low exchange rate, just a little over 2$ CAD to the pound. I haven't seen it that low since either 93 or 96. I know it was that low during one of those trips. Last summer (2004) it was $2.50. I remember that distinctly because the phone i bought there was £40 and my credit card was charged $100 even. Am definitely going to get more cash this week. I'd get the whole lot in Sterling travelers cheques except i don't want to be faffing about having to find places to cash them. Bank machines are so much nicer. Plus, banks charge you higher fees to cash a traveler's cheque than the bank charges to use a foreign ATM. Even in £ Sterling, lots of shops won't accept them. I won't get more cash after this though, because i don't want to have to carry it even if i do have a money belt/passport thing i wear under my clothes. Just hope that the dollar stays strong until January :) A £55 London hotel room costing me under $115 is way better than $125 or $135. Nice.
Nicholas Cage has named his newborn son Kal-El Coppola Cage. Right. That's quite a mouthful, just to say the name but ... naming your kid after Superman?? And...Kalel without the dash turns up on google as a computer virus/worm. *snort*
On the plus side, Canadians traveling to the UK are getting a stunningly low exchange rate, just a little over 2$ CAD to the pound. I haven't seen it that low since either 93 or 96. I know it was that low during one of those trips. Last summer (2004) it was $2.50. I remember that distinctly because the phone i bought there was £40 and my credit card was charged $100 even. Am definitely going to get more cash this week. I'd get the whole lot in Sterling travelers cheques except i don't want to be faffing about having to find places to cash them. Bank machines are so much nicer. Plus, banks charge you higher fees to cash a traveler's cheque than the bank charges to use a foreign ATM. Even in £ Sterling, lots of shops won't accept them. I won't get more cash after this though, because i don't want to have to carry it even if i do have a money belt/passport thing i wear under my clothes. Just hope that the dollar stays strong until January :) A £55 London hotel room costing me under $115 is way better than $125 or $135. Nice.