13 Week Pennsylvania Power Ball Pool - 19th Update

13 Week Pennsylvania Power Ball Pool - Game One

Date: 09/02/2007

To: Kenneth E Stutzman, Jr. Charles W. Rutherford, Juanita L. Brown, Mac Almond, Johnnie M. Dodson, and Chauncey Stumpter

Membership List: http://docs.google.com/Doc?id=ddn3r8c7_69c35dhf

From: Michael Porter

RE: 19th Newsletter

Happiness is something you decide on ahead of time

A 92-year-old, petite, well-poised and proud man, who is fully dressed each morning by eight o'clock, with his hair fashionably coifed and shaved perfectly, even though he is legally blind, moved to a nursing home today.

His wife of 70 years recently passed away, making the move necessary. After many hours of waiting patiently in the lobby of the nursing home, he smiled sweetly when told his room was ready.

As he maneuvered his walker to the elevator, I provided a visual description of his tiny room, including the eyelet sheets that had been hung on his window.

"I love it," he stated with the enthusiasm of an eight-year-old having just been presented with a new puppy.

"Mr. Jones, you haven't seen the room; just wait."

"That doesn't have anything to do with it," he replied.

"Happiness is something you decide on ahead of time. Whether I like my room or not doesn't depend on how the furniture is arranged ... it's how I arrange my mind. I already decided to love it.

"It's a decision I make every morning when I wake up. I have a choice; I can spend the day in bed recounting the difficulty I have with the parts of my body that no longer work, or get out of bed and be thankful for the ones that do.

Each day is a gift, and as long as my eyes open, I'll focus on the new day and all the happy memories I've stored away. Just for this time in my life.

Old age is like a bank account. You withdraw from what you've put in.

So, my advice to you would be to deposit a lot of happiness in the bank account of memories! Thank you for your part in filling my Memory bank.

I am still depositing. "Remember the five simple rules to be happy:

1. Free your heart from hatred.

2. Free your mind from worries.

3. Live simply.

4. Give more.

5. Expect less.

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Okay, I wish that I could tell you that I have a lot of happiness in my bank, but I don’t. I’ve made so many mistakes in my life, you would not believe it. I’m not sure if God has ever forgiven me. Okay, I know that he has, but somehow it doesn’t seem like it.

I have based my whole life around my lottery pools, hoping to win. Members of my pools have become like my family, and I find myself praying for them more than I pray for myself.

If I knew that I would never win, I would stop this today. But, I still know that I will win, I just don’t know how much, when or with whom I will win it with.

So until that day, I will have to have a negative in my life’s bank account, but that will all change when I win the lottery. I realized that money can’t buy happiness, but I always tell those people, they don’t know where to shop.

Here is Mac’s spreadsheet: http://tinyurl.com/253gxw

No one won the Jack Pot on Saturday, September 1^st, 2007.

The Jack Pot rose to $29 Million; it when up by $9 Million. The Cash Option is $13,700,000.00.

For now here is our payout for Wednesday September 5^th, 2007: There are 10 shares issued in this game, here is the payout, not including any attorney fees, taxes or tithes:

Shares Purchased	Amount you could win
.5	$685,000.00
1	$1,370,000.00
2	$2,740,000.00
3	$4,110,000.00

Every time I type a newsletter for this game, it’s like doing a brand new game. Again, I’ll be attaching your tickets to this newsletter, and for Wednesday you will have new numbers.

And honestly folks, I don’t know if I like this system or not. However we have won more money in this game, then in Die Hard or the Louisiana Power Ball.

Here is a recap of what we have won so far:

Date Money Won	Amount	Running Total	Notes
07/02/2007	$3.00	$3.00
07/28/2007	$3.00	$6.00
08/01/2007	$7.00	$13.00
08/11/2007	$3.00	$16.00
08/25/2007	$7.00	$23.00

I have already begin to campaign for new members in Game Two, I put a notice in Die Hard Multi-Lottery Pool, but I forgot to put one in Lotto Texas newsletter.

I do have one member who has paid. I will start listing them here until I get a new member, then I will start a membership list for Game Two of 13-Week Pennsylvania Power Ball Pool.

1. Charles W. Rutherford 09/02/2007 $26.00 1

Please remember that Juanita is leaving the first week of October to go back to Pennsylvania, so please have your money to me as before the 20^th of September, so I can send her the money.

Mac Almond send me the following web site, and I don’t know if it has sound or not (we need new speakers), but message was powerful. While it’s not funny, the following two jokes are, here is the web site:

Lest we forget

http://www.terrorismawareness.org/know-about-jihad/

The Female Genie

While trying to escape through Pakistan, Osama Bin Laden found a bottle on the sand and picked it up.

Suddenly, a female Genie rose from the bottle and with a smile said, "Master, may I grant you one wish?"

Osama responded, "You ignorant, unworthy Daughter-of-a-flea-bitten camel! Don't you know who I am? I don't need any common woman giving me anything."

The shocked Genie said, "Please, I must grant you a wish or I will be returned to that bottle forever."

Osama thought a moment, then grumbled about the impertinence of the woman and said: "Very well, I want to awaken with three American women in my bed in the morning. So just do it and be off with you."

The annoyed Genie said, "So be it!" and disappeared.

The next morning Bin Laden woke up in bed with Lorena Bobbitt, Tonya Harding, and Hillary Clinton at his side.

His penis was gone, his knees were broken, and he had no health insurance.

God is Good!

The Soldier and the Nun

A soldier ran up to a nun. Out of breath he asked, "Please, may I hide under your skirt, I’ll explain later." The nun agreed.

A moment later two Military Police ran up and asked, Sister, have you seen a soldier?" 

The nun replied, "He went that way." After the MP's ran off, the soldier crawled out from under her skirt and said, "I can't thank you enough Sister. You see, I don't want to go to Iraq."

The nun said, "I understand completely." The soldier added, "I hope I'm not rude, but you have a great pair of legs!" The nun replied, "If you had looked a little higher, you would have seen a great pair of balls....I don't want to go to Iraq either."