Sunday, September 9, 2007

13 Week Pennsylvania Power Ball Pool - 21st Update

Date: 09/9/2007

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: 21th Newsletter

The Rain

(Painting by Thomas Kinkaid)

One rainy afternoon I was driving along one of the main streets of town, taking those extra precautions necessary when the roads are wet and slick.

Suddenly my daughter, Aspen, spoke up from her relaxed position in her seat. "Dad, I'm thinking of something."

This announcement usually meant she had been pondering some fact for a while, and was now ready to expound all that her six-year-old mind had discovered. I was eager to hear.

"What are you thinking?" I asked.

"The rain!" she began, "is like sin, and the windshield wipers are like God wiping our sins away."

After the chill bumps raced up my arms I was able to respond. "That's really good, Aspen."

Then my curiosity broke in. How far would this little girl take this revelation? So I asked...

"Do you notice how the rain keeps on coming? What does that tell you?"

Aspen didn't hesitate one moment with her answer: "We keep on sinning, and God just keeps on forgiving us."

I will always remember this whenever I turn my wipers on.

In order to see the Rainbow, you must first endure some Rain.

Hope the water flows when you get the picture

READ THE FIRST LINE CAREFULLY.

If God brings you to it, He will bring you through it.

Happy moments, praise God.

Difficult moments, seek God.

Quiet moments, worship God.

Painful moments, trust God.

Every moment, thank God.

This is a Thomas Kinkade painting. It's rumored to carry a miracle!

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

It’s raining here in Dallas, and while I did get out to go to work, I changed my mind. I went to the Post Office and mailed off my compliant to the Texas Lottery Commission. Then I went to CafĂ© Brazil to have breakfast – That is when it started raining, and it was then I decided that I was too tired to go anywhere.

I stopped at Walgreen’s and got me and Charlie a Sunday Paper, and myself some smokes.

I got the next bus home, and I don’t know how many newsletters I will get out, because I’m so tired as I type this. But, I need to get some of them out.

I did check out tickets today on www.molottery.com and I’m either going blind, or these tickets get harder and harder to read. Ugh!

But, I’m certain we didn’t win anything. And that is okay with me, because I would like to see the Jack Pot roll and roll and then on Wednesday October 3rd, 2007 these numbers come up:

06 08 10 29 36 Power Ball 36

And then I will be able to write this wonderful exciting newsletter, and all my efforts will have paid off. Now, really is that too much to ask for?

No one won the Jack Pot last night, so it’s a climbing again! Our next drawing is Wednesday September 12th, 2007. The Cash Option is at $9,400,000.00.

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

$470,000.00

1

$940,000.00

2

$1,880,000.00

3

$2,820,000.00

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

On Saturday, I went and got my mail, and got checks and money orders. So far in this game, I’m only getting people who already playing. I will start showing Juanita Brown as paid, even though she isn’t mailing me money. There is little sense in her mailing me her money for me to turn around and mail it back to her. Our purpose here is NOT to make the Post Office rich, but for us to win the Power Ball.

Another reason I should listen Juanita, is because of what almost happened in the Louisiana Power Ball Pool. I had given Barbara the money with instructions of what to buy, and a copy of the membership list. I told her, that she had not paid me, so if she wanted to play, she would need to throw in another $20 and be sure to purchase another ticket.

Well on her way out of town, Barbara stops to buys the Louisiana Power Ball’s pools tickets, and after leaving the store realizes that her name is NOT on the membership list, and she said to herself, “I’ll be damn if I’m going to buy this group’s tickets and me NOT be in the pool,” so she swung around and purchased another 1 line 20 draw ticket. Barbara told me she just knew that if she hadn’t purchased a ticket, then we would have won.

I get paid on Friday, so I will be able to pay my shares then. I’m not sure that I’m going to be able to buy 3 shares again, but we will need to wait and see.

So far, I think everyone has purchase the same about of shares for the next game as they did for this game.

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

2. Mac Almond 09/08/2007 $26.00

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 20th of September, so I can send her the money.

I was visiting the Missouri’s Blog on their Website ran across this blog: Lightning does strike twice

Bolt_strikeYou often hear winning the lottery compared to being struck by lightning, but I'm not sure the comparisons are valid. Based on odds alone, it would seem you are more likely to get struck by lightning - about 500,000 to 1. But according to information compiled by the North American State and Provincial Lotteries association in 1996, more than 1,000 people won $1 million or more that year playing North American lotteries, while only 91 people were killed by lightning.

Whatever the odds, do you think anyone is really lucky enough to win twice? Here's a recent story about a New York couple who are living proof it does happen.

I hope that none of us get struck my lighting, but it seems that our chances are greater to win a lottery.

BABY PLANES

A mother and her son were flying Southwest Airlines from Kansas City to Chicago.

The son (who had been looking out the window) turned to his mother and asked, "If big dogs have baby dogs and big cats have baby cats, why don't big planes have baby planes?"

The mother (who couldn't think of an answer) told her son to ask the stewardess.

So the boy asked the stewardess, "If big dogs have baby dogs and big cats have baby cats, why don't big planes have baby planes?"

The stewardess responded, "Did your mother tell you to ask me?"

The boy said, "Yes she did".

"Well, then, tell your mother that there are no baby planes because Southwest always pulls out on time. Have your mother explain that to you."

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