Last week I heard that the Australian/New Zealand leg of the Steely Dan tour was getting their own Steely Dan Tee Shirt made by Denise of Hinktown. I have another of her shirt designs, from the Chumash show earlier this year, so I sent out a frantic email on Friday asking to be put on the list. Alan from Australia and I had met at the same Chumash show so he gets me on the order list, just under the wire. Great, I think! Well, then starts the how do I pay this man problem. I was going to send him some US money, but hey, that's not exactly fair to him. He needs Australian money. Well, Paypal wouldn't make it happen for me, a new subscriber and I really didn't want to drive all the way over to LAX for a currency exchange. So I put Burbank (thinking that maybe that airport had currency exchange) into Google and amazingly, I found that there was a currency exchange in the Glendale Galeria! Who knew? This one really dealt with exchange of all currencies. The other ones I had called, that are located around my immediate LA neighborhood, all said they dealt with wire transfers only. So I went on my lunch hour and had, for a few short minutes, some genuine Australian $20 bills in my hands. They are made of polymer plastic and each one has a window in it! Very cool. I hear one of the dollars has the face of person who wrote Waltzing Matilda on it. I thought that would have been nice to see. So my Australian Dollars are now winging their way, happily, to their home in the land down under...
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