here's another one.

Dear world:

LEAD - rhymes with "feed" - to guide, conduct, precede, etc.  PRESENT TENSE ONLY.

LED - rhymes with "red" - PAST TENSE OF ABOVE.

LEAD - rhymes with "red" - a mineral [eta:  metal.  Thanks, daktaklakpak.  ;-)].  Not, repeat not, the opposite of "followed".



Thank you.

packing adventures

In clearing out my files last night I found a bundle of mail that had been forwarded on to me from StX not long after I left.  I'd read most of this, but it turned out to include an envelope I hadn't opened before, which turned out to include a remittance from my wireless carrier, in the form of a check (cheque, I suppose) for £48.30.

This is not a huge amount of money, but it's not trivial, either.  Question is this:  with a date on the check/que of 19 July 2006, by the time I sent the thing off to my bank in the UK it will be over two years old.  Will they still honor it, do you think?  (I suppose it'll only cost me 94 cents to find out, so I might as well give it a shot ... ?)