[Northkeep] Talana Plunders Medici Bank - Film at Eleven

[Bill Yanak]

That is so COOL I really am at a loss for words!!! May the gods of fortune 
continue to shine upon you!!!

In awe,
William

P.S if you feel like spreading the luck......I could use some lotto numbers ;-)





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From: Jennifer Carlson <talana1 at hotmail.com>
To: northkeep lists.ansteorra.org <northkeep at lists.ansteorra.org>
Sent: Tue, March 1, 2011 4:05:39 PM
Subject: [Northkeep] Talana Plunders Medici Bank - Film at Eleven


Good evening, Northkeep,

Since some of you may see it on the news tomorrow, I figured I'd best be 
pre-emptive and explain why you will see me acting like an idiot on TV. . . .

A couple of years ago, I found a broken pendant on the sidewalk.  Although the 
markings on the back were worn nearly away, I could tell it was good stuff, not 
electroplated.  I put it in my pocket, because that's what you do with things 
you find when you're out walking, and when I got home I tossed it in a drawer 
and forgot about it, until last month, during the blizzard.  


After three days stuck at home, I had cleaned the house, reorganized my fabric 
stash (no mean feat, that), and had gotten down to straightening out my desk 
drawers, when the pendant resurfaced.  I thought "gold prices have shot up over 
the last couple of years.  I ought to sell this."  I put it back in the now 
semi-tidy drawer, and again forgot about it until last week, when I was helping 
a friend clean out her mother's house, and she made a remark about having found 
a place to sell some old coins and jewelry.  I remembered I needed to sell that 
pendant, since Diarmaid and I will be driving to Virginia in March (while you 
all are at Gulf Wars), and every little bit helps when gas prices are what they 
are.  A few days later, a co-worker suggested I use Tulsa Gold and Gems (this is 
a shameless plug for TG&G, but you'll understand in a minute), which is close to 
where I live.  I had some errands to do in that part of town on Saturday, so I 
stuck the pendant in my pocket and head
ed over.

Let me tell you, the spirit of the di Medici lives on.  You go from the street 
into a tiny hallway, and from thence into an elevator.  An elevator that is, I 
must say, obscenely tricked out in oak paneling and acanthus-leaf crown 
molding.  It deposits you in a hallway of rich, dark wood lined with benches, 
which made me recall my Roman history professor talking about the great Roman 
patricians and how their cliente (people who wanted to get favors from/do 
business with them) would wait in the vestibule of the patrician's villa for 
their turn to do business.  After getting past the door guard - a security lock 
by which you are buzzed into an inner chamber - I filled out some paperwork, and 
was instructed to wait until they had assayed my paltry little pendant.  I sat 
on a very nice leather sofa, watching three HD TVs, mounted on walls covered in 
gold-tone wall paper and more expensive panelling, and decided that this 
definitely was the modern equivalent of the business wing of
  a Florentine palazzo.

A few minutes later, a clerk called my name, and gave me a very good price for 
my little piece of gold.  He told me that Tulsa Gold and Gems holds a contest 
every month in which you guess what the closing price of gold will be on the 
last business day of the month.  I asked what it had closed at on Friday, 
considered that the Asian and Middle Eastern markets would be open on Sunday, 
and that the craziness raging in Bahrain and Libya wasn't going to resolve 
overnight, and rattled off a figure.

Well, I won.  I came within seven cents of nailing yesterday's closing price.  
So, this morning, I stepped into the Money Booth, a plexiglass case the size of 
a small shower stall, with a pile of cash on the floor.  They locked me in and 
turned on a fan, and gave me thirty seconds to catch as many flying bills as I 
could.  For half a minute, I grabbed money and stuffed it into my sweater like a 
mad woman.  My take came to $1,170.

I declare to one and all that I am more than satisfied with my first Tulsa Gold 
and Gems customer experience.

You can watch my brazen display of greed and my total lack of dignity on Channel 
6 tomorrow on the 10:00 pm broadcast.  And yes, Diarmaid took pictures and will 
post them on his Flickr page tonight.

Feeling like a condottieri after a good campaign season,

Talana                           
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