I was a little bored after I had just finished a few more pages of Mayhem in a Pill, and I decided to give myself a present and continue my umpteenth reading of Refusenik's "Island Mine." I had just reached the part of the story where Waylon was selling his first batch of gold mined by the aliens inhabiting his body when he went over the numbers for his first cashing in.
Seeing as how this story was originally posted in April of 2013. Oh damn, has it been that long already? I wondered what it would be as of today.
Hello Google!
So Waylon handed over 48.895 kg of gold to Whitestar Metals, pocketing $2.65 million in the story.
But in today's prices, that 48.895 kg of gold would bring home about $7.37 million.
Whew!
To paraphrase a line from one of my personal favorite movies, "That's a huge Twinkie."
Okay, back to work I go!
--Shinerdrinker