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UPS came this morning with my visa and passport! Yay! I'm now leaving for England on Friday morning. Percentage packed: 95. Things are coming together.

I also learned today that on the old British monetary system, a pound was 20 shillings, but there were 21 shillings to a guinea. There were 240 pence to a pound but 252 pence to a guinea. Furthermore, a farthing was a quarter of a pence and a crown was five shillings, but a half-crown was two shillings and six pence, not two shillings and five pence. Logic?