7 month celebration!!!!

On Saturday, 2 September 2006 Emilia and I were married, which was 0.58241758241758241758241758241758 of a year ago, 7 months ago, 30.28571428571428571428571428571429 weeks ago, 212 days ago, 5088 hours ago, 305,280 minutes ago, or 18,316,800 seconds ago. This is of course, making use of the 10:00 A.M. mark, the time the ceremony was due to end, so this is only an approximate. I guess I am saying that so far I still am glad that my wife agreed to marry me. :-)

As to the pics above, this was a $50.00 dolar bill that Emilia brought back from Australia. This particular banknote was released on 4 October 1995, and was desingned by Brian Sadgrove. It is a polymer banknote, made from biaxially-oriented polypropylene (BOPP). This material is used in a wide variety of applications, including food packaging, textiles, plastic parts and reusable containers of various types, thermal pants and shirts made for the military, laboratory equipment, loudspeakers, and automotive components.

On the front of the bill (Top photo) is David Unaipon, who was an Australian Aboriginal preacher, inventor and writer. Unaipon was awarded ten patents, including a shearing machine, but could not raise money to get his inventions into production. He was known as the Australian Leonardo for his mechanical ideas, which included anticipatory drawings for a helicopter design based on the principle of the boomerang. He was often refused accommodation and refreshment due to his race.

On the back of the note is (Bottom Pic) Edith Dircksey Cowan, who was an Australian politician, social campaigner and the first woman elected as a representative in an Australian parliament. In 1894 she helped found the Karrakatta Club, a group where women "educated themselves for the kind of life they believed they ought to be able to take". In time she became the club's president. The Karrakatta Club became involved in the campaign for women's suffrage, successfully gaining the vote for women in 1899. The building of Perth's King Edward Memorial Hospital for Women in 1916 was largely a result of her efforts. In 1920 Cowan became one of the first female Justices of the Peace. Also, in 1920, Western Australia passed legislation allowing women to stand for parliament. At the age of 59 Cowan stood as the Nationalist candidate for the Legislative Assembly seat of West Perth and defeated her opponent, Attorney General, Thomas Draper, who had introduced the legislation that enabled her to stand for the position.