Tuesday, June 16, 2015

B365V2.27 - A change is gonna come

So it has been a few weeks, actually more like better than a month, since I have update ye olde change meter.  For those not in the know, and knowing is half the battle (G I Joe!), the change meter is a little something I started way back in the blogs wee infancy, some two different blog hosts ago (shout out to all you former Mutiply and Yahoo 360 users) and what the change meter is is simply a collection of all of the money that I find laying on the ground.  A penny here, a nickel there, yada, yada, yada.  The only rules to the meter are, 1) it has to be money or something of which an established value can be determined, such as when I found a monthly PAT bus pass and 2) the money could not have been mine previously, so I can't go to the laundymat and find change in the dryer I took my clothes out of and call it found money, chances are that was already in m possession and just fell out of my pockets. 

So now that we have established the rules, lets get about the business of updating shall we.  When we last left off, the total was $621.35 and we are adding to the total the amount of $11.49, $11 of which I found on the floor at work, and put behind the counter becuase I expected the owner just dropped their change, and was not disappointed not more than 5 minutes later when someone came in looking for their money, but because it was my money for a brief moment and could have been for a lot more moments if my Mayberry style upbringing didn't get in the way.  Think I am kidding, go visit Elderton some day and get back to me or allow me to steal from wikipedia:
As of the census[4] of 2000, there were 358 people, 145 households, and 107 families residing in the borough. The population density was 1,293.0 people per square mile (493.7/km2). There were 156 housing units at an average density of 563.4 per square mile (215.1/km2). The racial makeup of the borough was 99.44% White, 0.28% African American, and 0.28% from two or more races.
There were 145 households out of which 30.3% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 59.3% were married couples living together, 6.9% had a female householder with no husband present, and 26.2% were non-families. 24.8% of all households were made up of individuals and 10.3% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.42 and the average family size was 2.82.
In the borough the population was spread out with 22.3% under the age of 18, 11.2% from 18 to 24, 26.0% from 25 to 44, 19.8% from 45 to 64, and 20.7% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 40 years. For every 100 females there were 93.5 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 86.6 males.
The median income for a household in the borough was $36,000, and the median income for a family was $43,750. Males had a median income of $37,917 versus $23,021 for females. The per capita income for the borough was $18,805. About 3.6% of families and 5.0% of the population were below the poverty line, including 7.0% of those under age 18 and 11.0% of those age 65 or over.

Anyway, the $11 dollars does count, even though I ended up giving it back so the brand new total is $632.84.  Or almost $2 for every Eldertonian in existence.   Math rocks!!!!!

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