November 1976.

People in this country are getting more and more familiar with the title and it's because this is the last time the Canadian and U.S. dollar were at parity.

I got my first pleasant dose of the new reality, when I bought an album online, from the U.S. branch of Amazon. It may sound silly, but there's something sweetly satisfying about buying an item for $15USD and actually paying $14.30CDN. Considering it's never happened in my lifetime, I think I have the right to be just a little bit giddy. It feels a bit like I'm sticking it to some faceless entity (I don't know who, but boy do I feel like I'm going to make them suffer) and you can't beat that.