Cents

 A penny for your thoughts.

If you were to go by this metric, I'll guess that I'm up to around seventy-five dollars from this little corner of Al Gore's Internet. This assumes that I've got  one thought per post. Which seems about right. I may have other thoughts throughout the course of the week, but this is the best place to verify them. 

The thing is, the last penny was minted in Philadelphia last Wednesday. Where are my thought pennies supposed to come from now? I suppose I could take them on account, getting a nickel for every five thoughts. At this rate, I could make a quarter in less than a month. Every year I'd make three and a half bucks or so. 

Again, this suggests that I am limited to that one thought per day. Then there's the truth about the way I can, periodically, recycle thoughts. 

Is anyone keeping track of this? 

I have a few hundred pennies sitting around in rolls and loose in jars or scattered about on dressers. I would expect that these should come in handy when those around me show up with their thoughts. 

All of this accounting might have been avoided if the deficit model had not been introduced so very long ago. As I have mentioned, the offer is generally made for the one penny for your thoughts. But then if you insert your opinion into the mix, we say that you're putting your two cents in. 

How do you suppose that's going to work out?