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To: Game 35 Members
From: Michael Porter
Update: 6th NEWSLETTER
Today's Quote - 3900 Saturdays
The older I get, the more I enjoy Saturday mornings.
Perhaps it's the quiet solitude that comes with being the first to rise, or maybe it's the unbounded joy of not having to be at work.
Either way, the first few hours of a Saturday morning are most enjoyable.
A few weeks ago, I was shuffling toward the garage with a steaming cup of coffee in one hand and the morning paper in the other.
What began as a typical Saturday morning turned into one of those lessons that life seems to hand you from time to time.
Let me tell you about it:
I turned the dial up into the phone portion of the band on my ham radio in order to listen to a Saturday morning swap net.
Along the way, I came across an older sounding chap, with a tremendous signal and a golden voice.
You know the kind; he sounded like he should be in the broadcasting business.
He was telling whomever he was talking with something about "a thousand marbles."
I was intrigued and stopped to listen to what he had to say.
"Well, Tom, it sure sounds like you're busy with your job.
I'm sure they pay you well but it's a shame you have to be away from home and your family so much.
Hard to believe a young fellow should have to work sixty or seventy hours a week to make ends meet.
It's too bad you missed your daughter's "dance recital" he continued.
"Let me tell you something that has helped me keep my own priorities."
And that's when he began to explain his theory of a "thousand marbles."
"You see, I sat down one day and did a little arithmetic.
The average person lives about seventy-five years.
I know, some live more and some live less, but on average, folks live about seventy-five years.
"Now then, I multiplied 75 times 52 and I came up with 3900, which is the number of Saturdays that the average person has in their entire lifetime.
Now, stick with me, Tom, I'm getting to the important part.
It took me until I was fifty-five years old to think about all this in any detail", he went on, "and by that time I had lived through over twenty-eight hundred Saturdays."
"I got to thinking that if I lived to be seventy-five, I only had about a thousand of them left to enjoy.
So I went to a toy store and bought every single marble they had.
I ended up having to visit three toy stores to round up 1000 marbles.
I took them home and put them inside a large, clear plastic container right here in the shack next to my gear."
"Every Saturday since then, I have taken one marble out and thrown it away.
I found that by watching the marbles diminish, I focused more on the really important things in life.
There is nothing like watching your time here on this earth run out to help get your priorities straight."
"Now let me tell you one last thing before I sign-off with you and take my lovely wife out for breakfast.
This morning, I took the very last marble out of the container.
I figure that if I make it until next Saturday then I have been given a little extra time.
And the one thing we can all use is a little more time."
"It was nice to meet you Tom, I hope you spend more time with your family, and I hope to meet you again here on the band.
This is a 75 Year old Man, K9NZQ, clear and going QRT, good morning!"
You could have heard a pin drop on the band when this fellow signed off.
I guess he gave us all a lot to think about.
I had planned to work on the antenna that morning, and then I was going to meet up with a few hams to work on the next club newsletter.
Instead, I went upstairs and woke my wife up with a kiss. "C'mon honey, I'm taking you and the kids to breakfast."
"What brought this on?" she asked with a smile.
"Oh, nothing special, it's just been a long time since we spent a Saturday together with the kids.
And hey, can we stop at a toy store while we're out? I need to buy some marbles.
I needed that story, because my Saturday’s are never an “off” day. I’m working from the time I get up until the time I go to bed. I am usually off work, but this and other Lottery Pools keep me busy.
Like today, it took me 1.75 hours to collect all the money my pools had won, some of them I had to buy more tickets. I personally won money last night, and while I’m grateful for the wins, I’m exhausted.
Die Hard Multi-Lottery Pool – Game XV won $6.00. They got 2 mores line for the remaining draws in this month.
J & M Lottery Pool won $9.00. They got 1 more line for 9 draws.
I won $52.00, but I can’t tell you how much I won on Cash Five, Texas Two-Step and Mega Millions.
This group did better than anyone: This group won a grand total of $776.00.
Now while this is good news, we will be unable to collect on all of it. If fact, if the mega ball had been 3, we would have made more money. As it is now, I was able to collect $176.00. The one ticket worth $600.00, Kroger was unable to cash; I need to go to the
The
No one won the Jack Pot, which surprises me. I don’t think that I’m the only one who was picking 26 as the Mega Ball. Anyone who has access to the Internet could have found the same information that I found, and could have been picking 26 for all their Mega Balls.
Mega Millions Winning Numbers for
Mega Millions Winning Details* (
3 of 5 w/Mega Ball $150 110 Megaplier: $600 27
2 of 5 w/Mega Ball $10 1,607 Megaplier: $40 424
0 of 5 w/Mega Ball $2 18,585 Megaplier: $85,233 5,233
Total
*Note:
There was no Mega Millions jackpot or 2nd prize winners in
Est. Cash Value $25.0 Million
We were 1 of the 27 people who won $600.00; we were 1 of the 40 people who won $40.00. And were 11 of the 5,233 people who won $8.00. So when you win it pays to megaply!
I did a little research this afternoon, to see what the next Mega Ball might be.
There are several: 13, 25,25,27,28 and 32
The most frequently drawn Mega Ball is 4. This little guy out paces ever other Mega Ball. There are a few more numbers close the 13-32 balls that would qualify for the least drawn Mega Ball.
Now a word of thanks to Steven Kasper, he came over my desk and told me that he thought our payout information was wrong. Steve analyzes data all day long. He works with spreadsheets all day, too!
He pointed out that this pool has $1,200.00 in the pot. Each share cost $10.00; we have 120 shares issued in this game. We should be dividing the Cash Option Sum, by 120 to get the per share ratio.
| Shares Purchased | Amount you could win (before any attorney fees, taxes or tithes) |
| 1 | $208,333.33 |
| 1.5 | $312,499.99 |
| 2 | $416,666.66 |
| 2.5 | $520,833.32 |
| 3 | $624,999.99 |
| 4 | $833,333.32 |
| 16 | $3,333,333.28 |
| | |
I did not go through our tickets one by one and copy and paste all the info in your newsletter, I would have been here all night. But, you can see line by line where we won our money by accessing his spreadsheet at: http://tinyurl.com/33lgfg
| Money in Bank | Date Won | Running Total |
| $20.00 | | $20.00 |
| $8.00 | | $28.00 |
| $16.00 | | $44.00 |
| $176.00 | | $220.00 |
| $600.00* | | *Could not collect |
Now a word about our $600.00 win: I can’t mail it to collect our money until all draws are complete. I don’t know if the
It’s my plan to go there on Monday or Tuesday. I really need to go by and collect our money, get an exchange ticket, so we can get ready to collect on it again. I think we have not seen the last of 26 as our Mega Ball. If I were buying tickets today, I would still select 26 as my Mega Ball.
I don’t want to see happen, is Tuesday we win on that ticket again, and now I would have to collect $640.00, paying more taxes. And you all know how I hate paying taxes.
So I will try to get there before going to work either Monday or Tuesday, and see if I can’t get our cash for us.
Now if I were smart, I would just wait and do it Friday, on Tuesday we may have another win of $600.00 and I could just make one trip do. But, we will see how this week goes.
I do have one rejoin who has already paid for Game 36, so it will start on Friday August 10th, 2007
If you want to play in Game 36 you will need to have your money to me no later than Thursday August 09th, 2007.
The membership list for Game 36 is attached.
Glory Be Unto the Father
Walking by, a minister saw his 5-year-old son and playmates find a dead robin.
Feeling that proper burial should be performed, the children had secured a small box and cotton batting, then dug a hole and made ready for the disposal of the deceased.
The minister's son was chosen to say the appropriate prayers and with sonorous dignity intoned his version of what he thought his father always said: "Glory be unto the Faaaather, and unto the Sonnn... and into the hole he gooooes."
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