Friday, February 17, 2012

417,600,001 Hits

Well, fkaBaxter is gonna cost us $227,000 just to see him to college, then we'll have to hope that he's one heck of a fencer for the privilege of paying $220,000 for an Ivy League degree. It's not unprecedented, Grizzly and Wood Duck did it for twelve long years, it's just a lot. 

Baleen and I have got some planning to do: a 529 Savings Account, maybe even a real, legal will, and a Victory Garden in back as it'll be beans and rice for the next few years. That's the hard method: twenty two years of saving and scrimping, choosing car seats over designer bags, comfy shoes over uncomfortable ones, and the Sunday Civic Center Market over Saturday's Ferry Building.

Then again, maybe we should take advantage of the medium of our times. It worked for Shrimp Jr's college roommate. When her parents wrote that $220,000 check, they must have said, Aren't we glad we took our little girl to audition for that cereal commercial?  All we have to do is come up with some video of little fkaBaxter that'll get 417 million hits. Apparently, that's enough to put Charlie through college.


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