A new Contest..Next contest is postponed..probably till May

[Bruce]

Congrats Dave. Yep, always nice to win something sometime. We pretty much don't do the lottery either but both DE and I bought a Powerball ticket when it was like $1.5B.
We won BIG!!!
HAH!
We each got 1 number right. She bought a ticket some months later and got no numbers right.

Which just shows we shouldn't bother with the lottery.

 

[farmerjan]

Since I don't smoke, basically don't drink but maybe one or two a year... and seldom even chew gum... I figure that spending a little on lottery tickets isn't so bad. I kept track one year and figured I won about $20. more than I spent. So it doesn't bother me to spend a few dollars on it. Sometimes I play if once or twice a week, sometimes I go weeks without playing. A friend won 3.5 million about 10 years back, and another friends' parents won 125,000 one time. A neighbor right up the road won something like 125 or 150,000 about 2 years ago. All different types, pick numbers, scratch offs, so no specific way. Supposedly the lottery moneys help the educational system here in VA also.

 

[Latestarter]

Lottery funds here in TX go to schools and veterans projects I believe. I never play with the anticipation of winning, but always with the hope of doing so. There is a difference.

 

[Bruce]

All profits go to education here. I think more people need to play and LOSE, then our property taxes would go down since that is the other source.

 

[greybeard]

Dave, It's going to be a day or 2 before I can mail your prize out. I'm under the weather health wise and temperature wise.
Had a bad reaction to one of my blood thinners Christmas Day and am bleeding from just about everywhere possible. Not serious, but I really don't want to go out in public right now..

 

[Bruce]

Sure hope that clears up fast @greybeard !!

 

[Pastor Dave]

Real sorry to hear that GB. Take all the time you need. I've dealt with a migraine all day today, and hope it is gone soon. Feel good enough at moment to look at my phone screen. We went from mild temps and no precip. last winter to frigid temps and snow or icy mix predicted every day in January. Been thawing waterers twice a day too. Not fun.

 

[Bruce]

Ah man Dave, sorry to hear that. When I get a migraine it is all I can do to crawl in bed.

 

[Latestarter]

Sorry to hear you're having a bad reaction GB. Hope you & the doc(s) can get it under control. Heal up man. Sorry to hear about the migraine Dave. Had them as a young man, full blown with kaleidoscopic vision, puking, sensitive hearing, the whole works. Glad they went away with age.

 

[greybeard]

Dave, did you recieve a package from me?

Tracking has shown it, for the last 12 days, to still be at a USPS hub, St Louis Mo.
Not sure what happened, but I am going to send another, as this usually means Post Office has 'lost' the package.
If the original box shows up, keep both.