No NFL team which plays its home games in a domed stadium has ever won a Superbowl. The Steelers prove this, and I bet they thought a lot about building something with a dome up there in Pittsburgh.

I always bet on the team without a roof.  Which is limiting in basketball (ha – a joke). And I think every team in Chambers County is a good bet too.

But really, I’m not a betting man. I earn my money the honest way. But even then, I run into emergencies for cash. My mother in Texas took sick last year and I didn’t have time to drive there to help her out — had to take a plane trip to Amarillo. That was $350, cash I didn’t have on hand.  I went on the internet and googled for ideas and found Car Title Loans in Lanett, a car title loan company. My old Focus isn’t worth much, but it was enough to get me to Texas and back.  Glad I did it.

If you have three quarters, four dimes, and four pennies, you have $1.19. You also have the largest amount of money in coins without being able to make change for a dollar.

I learned that much at Carroll High School, and it actually comes in handy at my job at the Quick Mart. My friend Lurelle and I always have to close out the cash register at the end of our shift, so we try to get rid of the small change as much as possible. Some people give me dirty looks when I hand them a lot of pennies and nickels, but money is money.

Which is my main point. I had to get my hands on about $300 recently and didn’t know where to find it. I went on the computer, on the internet, and found Car Title Loans in Ozark. They are a car title loan company that looked at my Saturn and said it was worth even more than that. So I filled out their applicaiton and they approved me in about 30 minutes. It was great because I got the money in two days, which was just right for my emergency.

The highest point in Pennsylvania is lower than the lowest point in Colorado. And the mountain on earth closest to the sun is in Chile, not Mt. Everest.  That’s because there’s a bulge in the earth at the Equator.

I’m a geography whiz and not afraid to enlighten others with my deep storehouse of knowledge. And I just started at Lurleen Wallace community college to pursue this. I want to be a cartographer and this is my start. After two years at the Chic-Fil-A I’m ready to move on.

Of course, I needed money for tuition and books and didn’t have family money to help. But my car, my old Chevy from my mom, was good for a $560 loan at Car Title Loans in Andalusia.  They are a car title loan company that even makes loans on old cars (this is a 1997 Malibu). And while I continue working and going to school, I’m able to pay off the loan before the semester is over. It’s a great way to do it without going into a lot of debt.

I was reading the other day that the Eisenhower interstate system requires that one mile in every five must be straight. These straight sections are usable as airstrips in times of war or other emergencies. So does that mean if a plane has to make an emergency landing, they can do it on a highway? And if so, why did they land that plane in the Hudson River in New York City instead of using a highway?

I’m not a comfortable flier to begin with. In fact, I avoid it if at all possible.  I drive to visit family in Salt Lake City when I can. Of course, last year my grandmother took a turn for the worse and I had to go back to see her before she died. Which meant I had to fly. And not only that, but last minute airfares are outrageous — it was more than $800 to get a seat the next day.

I had no choice, but also no credit cards. So I searched online for a quick loan through a car title loan store.  I found Car Title Loans in Salem, and it was exactly what I needed.  I borrowed $1000 off my old-but-paid-for Honda, and was able to leave the next evening.

Fortunately, we didn’t have to do an emergency landing and I got to spend some time with my grandmother in her last days.

I married an engineer. He’s kind of a nerd, but he’s not bad to look at and a good provider. And, I can manipulate him. I needed to distract him one day, so I threw in front of him an equation I read in the paper: 111,111,111 x 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987,654,321

That kept him busy for an hour, just long enough for him not to notice I was on my laptop working out a little problem.  I had smashed in my front bumper on the car, the old car, and we weren’t carrying collision insurance on it anymore.  He’s kinda critical of my driving, and yes, the accident was due to my talking on the phone while driving. So I just didn’t want him to see what happened or know that it was a $430 repair. For a week I had to be sure to pull into the garage so the way it was parked covered the damage. I managed to cover the expense “off the books,” so to speak, by getting a car title loan from Car Title Loans in Gresham, which was easy to do from my laptop. I paid it off from my own slush fund and he never knew a thing about it.

So the bottom line is if you marry an engineer, math problems are a great way to divert their attention.