I think there must be some significance to the fact that the state is depositing my PFD check into my account today, the 35th anniversary of the day I arrived in Barrow. I don’t know what that significance is, but I’m tempted to say $1600 isn’t quite enough. Maybe what the state should do is give each resident $100 for every year they’ve lived in the state….$200 for every year lived here in the Bush. Then we’d be talking money!