I removed the photo. The personal information was all blurred out, but still a creepy number of people do image searches for checks. Well, freaks, I'm tracking your IP addresses.

While throwing out some old papers last night, I stumbled upon these two checks. The first is a rent check from when I was in grad school in Pittsburgh. That $180 got me a room in a house, with a yard, washer and dryer, in a great neighborhood. The second check is for a Pentium 233. That $1389 got me a computer that I swear to God is propping open my bedroom door right now.