Not even close to a trillion pounds. Well, maybe close.

The first 100 days…

sets the tone for the whole term (or in my case, the whole year).

We are well into the new year and we’ve finally settled in to 2009 life.

The nation has elected it’s first black president (I didn’t vote for him) and the Steelers

have won their unprecedented sixth Superbowl title.

Obama has shocked the world by spending over a trillion dollars in his first 22 days in office. I have to say, I saw it coming. Hello Depression.

I guess I should be happy, for as a Pharmacist I should be making money hand over fist when everyone starts getting on antidepressants. Oh wait, we’re going to nationalize healthcare and I won’t make a cent.

How much is a trillion dollars? Can we even fathom that?

Well, if you were to make a job being paid 1 dollar per second, at 40 hours a week and 52 weeks per year it would still take you over 31,000 years to make a trillion dollars.

Now let’s look at it from a different angle.

Let’s say it’s the year 1, the beginning of the first millennium. You have a trillion dollars to spend–at the rate of one million dollars a day. At just before three years, you’ve reached a billion dollars. So you keep spending. Now you are in the year 2,000. Would you believe you’d still have 737 years to go before you exhaust your trillion dollar pile.

If you have $1M in the form of a stack of $1000 bills, it reaches about 4.3 inches high.

How high is a stack of $1000 bills enough to make up a TRILLION dollars?

Over 66 MILES high.

One trillion dollars would stretch nearly from the earth to the sun. It would take a military jet flying at the speed of sound, reeling out a roll of dollar bills behind it, 14 years before it reeled out one trillion dollar bills.

Basically if any of these numbnuts in Congress stopped to think about the rate at which they’re burning my money, they’d think twice about asking me for more in the form of taxes. So, in an effort to do my part to stimulate the economy, I’ve decided to work on my list extra hard this year. I’ve pulled out 67 items that I hope to accomplish this year and if I do, I’ll reach the halfway mark to completing my 1000 things to do before I die.

After all, working on my list is all I have left.

22. Michigan

52. Canada

121. Read the Bible cover to cover

141. Go to a Steelers game at Heinz field.

142. Cook a meal good enough to be my last.

146. Visit the Kentucky Derby..and bet on it.(1st Sat in May)

155. Take part in a marathon or half marathon. (try to finish)

179. Get the Fishpaw Hats together for a concert

180. Record a song with the Fishpaw Hats

181. Write a song

222. Write a will

232. Protest something.

233. Trace my family tree

239. See every 'Best Picture' movie

241. Write a letter to the editor

245. Write a fan letter

274. Do 100 push ups in a row

287. Make a fire without matches/lighter

301. Write a letter of thanks for good customer service/product

315. Be a mentor

341. Learn Japanese

349. Learn to play snooker

357. Learn the rules of Craps

367. Join a public service club or organization

371. See all 250 movies from IMDB's list of greatest movies

387. Go to church more than just Sunday morning.

399. Flip the bird at some government official.

405. Plan my own funeral.

431. Send out Christmas cards.

432. Start a family tradition

433. Order the most expensive thing on the menu

439. Learn the sign language alphabet

442. Visit the Rock and roll hall of fame

443. Visit the Football Hall of Fame

445. Buy a Fedora and wear it regularly

450. Pay for someone behind you in a drive thru

484. Eat fried chicken in Kentucky

485. Develop my own hot sauce

498. Ride one of the worlds fastest and tallest rollercoasters

499. Take my kids to Sandusky Ohio

519. Memorize the periodic table.

525. Blog at least once a month for a year

598. Write my wife a love letter every Valentine's day (Feb.14)

613. Learn how to receive a gift

621. Make my own milkshake

638. Get the Midnight Train action figure made

741. Finish a Sunday newspaper crossword puzzle without cheating

746. Run a mile after age 30

751. Watch all the Jackie Chan movies

772. Leave a good book on a bench/bus for someone else to find

801. Eat an entire box of cereal in one day

803. Call a radio talk show on air

844. Memorize friends and family's birthdays

849. Go to the horseraces

866. See Gettysburg

878. Read all of the Lord of the Rings trilogy

895. Learn and be able to identify constellations

898. Read famous historical speeches

918. See Hershey PA

932. Sit under a tree and just relax

956. Raise money for a charity.

960. Learn 80% of the world's capitols

972. Make a book of my famous RPG characters

973. String popcorn for the Christmas tree with my kids.

974. Own 1000 books.

977. Tithe regularly

982. Learn morse code or semiphore but not both