starchild_45's Blog

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Mood: Good

Now Playing: Manabu Ohishi:Awakened Breezes

Well the randomizer put me on an acoustic piano piece. plus i went to a jazz concert last night here in seattle at Jazz alley. i got to see George Duke keyboard player and singer. it was a good thing to do last night and i was glad i was there. i think i am going to go next weekend too to see Stanley Clarke the jazz bass player and more. i think i will be taking in a few more concerts in the weeks to come. suffer suffer suffer is all we do lately. well i want to pull my head above the water and breathe.

well i invested my money in a hotel room from last year and i will spend a night in lewsiton idaho. maybe if i have some more time and a cheap place to stay i will spend another night on the road. you just can't do too much with less than 300 dollars to spend on lotto vacation. yes last year was just not that good a year. all my big hits came from canada and i couldn't even get the checks cashed here last year. so we are off to on a road trip the wife and i in 2 weekends. take what little we have from playing the lotto all last year and just enjoy washington and idaho. the economy dictates that we be a whole lot more frugal.

well i missed some transactions so i will have to give you some hightlights.

i still have not sent off for my check from new york state. i need to do that and i think i will be doing that after this. afterwards i have to clean the bathroom. yecch.

what i have in my wallet are losers and winners. yes i keep winning but millions.

i had a 3 dollar winner on a 10 dollar wa lotto ticket.

i also have a 5 drawing loser on the wa lotto.

i also have a 1 dollar loser on an exchange ticket for mega millions. i mistakenly checked this ticket and earlier and i had a winner. they gave me my 3 dollar cash for this ticket and since i had more drawings i got an exchange ticket.

also in my wallet is my receipt from canada for my super 7 ticket that ran out in this month. the canadians were nice enough to mail my 2 dollar winning check to me. oh yes i have no place to cash it again. just another excuse to go to canada. love the country. i just purchased today a 10 drawing wa lotto ticket. wish me luck.

now the overview with what i can recollect.

the last time mega million went over 100 million i started purchasing extra tickets every drawing. i forgot how high it went before someone hit it but i was buying 10 drawing tickets every drawing past 100 million. i figured it can't hurt. i wish i could do that for powerball now. i got my tickets for that so more about that in a minute.

Getting back to the exchange ticket above. well i was on my way to oregon with my friend to get a powerball ticket. we were joking around in some store where i had the lady check my ticket and it cashed me out. i was just trying to check it not realizing i had more drawings on it. he got some more wa megamillion tickets and we were on our way south.

we got to oregon and i purchase a 26 drawing powerball ticket with power play. plus i purchased a 26 drawing ticket for the megabucks lotto there too. now i did not need another powerball ticket because i already had one but what the heck. i was in oregon and i purchased a lotto ticket. the powerball ticket is going to run out late may and the megabucks ticket sometime in april. i don't know and i don't care right now. i got the tickets. powerball is over 100 million now. whew.

well i did make the trip to florida and i came hunting for bear. i purchased a 52 drawing powerball ticket with powerplay and it is good until september sometime. i also purchased a 52 drawing ticket for the florida lottery with the piggyback prize. which put that one ticket about 156 dollars. the piggyback prize is 68 million. oh to win that or the powerball grand prize. momma.

well i had to drop my niece off at the airport and drive back to jacksonville. i stood outside the terminal and saw a couple of the delta employees having a smoke break. i asked how far was it to the georgia line from here. the one lady asked me what i wanted to do at exit one and i told her i wanted a lotto ticket. the guy told me to get off on exit one and go left to the hess gas station. he said he used to make that run a lot but not anymore since powerball came to florida. we smiled and off i went. i went tot he hess station and got a 10 drawing ticket for the megamillions there too. so right now i am heavy into megamillion. hey i will take 2nd place.

going through the airport in houston i picked up some slips for the texas lottery. i am going to fill them out and send them to my cousin who said that he would purchase some tickets for me. i just need to get around to filling out the paperwork for him. i lost my new york connection and hoping that i can get a steady texas connection for megamillion.

as metioned above i am headed to idaho. i will be picking up lotto tickets there for powerball too. maybe it will keep climbing until i get there. if not i will have 2 tickets in play by the time i get there. one of my oregon powerball tickets is coming due next wednesday. Poppa needs to pay some bills so powerball come through for me.

well the hour is getting late and the caffeine is wearing off. i still need to clean the bathroom and mail my new york ticket off. so wish me luck. i could use some.

mister mega and mister power please shine a little light on me with some cashola. 10 grand would be just grand.

PS i am in the top 3 jackpots worldwide right now.

 PEACE

Last Edited: March 30, 2009, 9:02 pm

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Mood: Good

Now Playing: Bryan Jones: Let It Go

how apprpriate a song for my feeling right now. my daughter pissed me off and i put this song on real loud to chase them from down stairs. she wouldn't let me use her headphones and it was some kind of burden for her to drive dad to a bus. it was no burden for me to drive her to seattle and wait until her friend showed up from running errands. Dads get no respect!

like the song says i need to let it go.

anyway i put in my last bit of money from last year into my saving account and i didn't even break 300 last year. hmmmm maybe i should just let that go too. hahaha. i did make enough to get a long awaited drive across washington to idaho on the southern route. i just need to book my room in lewiston or near by.

i was waiting on a check from kentucky that i had not seen and was wondering where it could be. most states are pretty good about sending out the checks. well my wife was going through some old mail and she came across my check from KY. it was for a whopping 4 dollars but it did get added to last years total.

i had a bunch of tickets that matured at the beginning of january but i only had 2 winners both from colorado. i finally got them in the mail and will be waiting on the checks to come back to me so i can start 2009 account.

i did have more losers maturing this year.

1 ten drawing loser for the washington megamillions.

1 dollar ticket for the washington lotto = loser.

1 4 drawing ticket for the washington lotto = loser.

i do have another oregon ticket to check but i have not checked it yet. it is a oregon megabucks ticket.

i have a washington lotto coming due this saturday. i also have a washington megamillions ticket that i know is a 10 dollar winner. i happened to have it on me when i was checking the losers at the counter. so i know i have more for the 2009 lotto fund.

i have no trips planned until next month when i go to florida. i did send off a query to the txlottery people about the time the lotto place is open in the houston airport. i try to pass through there during the middle of the day but my schedule just did not work out that way. so my fingers are crossed that i can get me a ticket while in the airport.

i don't have any more to tell you. i wish i get a thousand dollar win or more this year.

did you hear that mister power and mister mega?

peace yall 

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Mood: Good

Now Playing: Diana Ross; The Supremes : My World Is Empty Without You [Tranzition Remix]

this is a nice and haunting remix of an old classic! it is so nice as i play it over and over again in my background as i type this up. wow. i went to up date my windows media player and it put this back in my current playlist. ah one more time.

Wow is another word for how many hits i got in just two months. i had almost 5000 views in under two months. i thought since i could not get on to do an update things would quite down. how wrong i was. nice to know i am not missed. i have posted on other blogs and polls but just didn't up date this one.

well let me get to the update.

i never made it to cali. i got terribly sick on the day i was supposed to fly down to cali. i had my wife call my friend in cali and let him know i couldn't make it and i was sorry i couldn't use his ticket. the older i get the harder the colds hit you. i just could not get on the plane to go south. i really would like to have gotten a ticket from there. cali is the largest jackpot today. 70 million is no small lotto. oh well until my next trip there. i can't convince my friend to purchase a ticket for me. maybe someone here? hmmmm?

i didn't open a canadian bank account. the banks i talked to up there were all charging maintence fees that would have just ate up the balance. so i just cashed them there. jumping the gun a little bit on the up date but i went up to BC and got me two more lotto tickets. i have a canadian 6/49 good until april sometime and i got a super 7 ticket that is good until july sometime. i don't have any plans to go to canada again for awhile. come to find out that i had 2 checks that were winners on the 6/49 and one good on the super7. i just hate check cashing places. i wish i knew someone up there that i could meet in surrey and just plain ole cash my checks on their account. hmmm? any surrey people here? just asking.

well let me get to the current things. i see a stack of stuff i just need to blurt out. i think i can go over the winners a lot easier than i can the losers.

i had a $10 winner on a $ 10 dollar was lotto ticket. hey look at that a 100% return for once.

i had a $ 6 dollar winner on a 20 dollar wa lotto ticket. of course it is a reason for the blue man to dance. matter of fact i have not put my money in my account yet. i still have the 6 dollars on me. i need to go put it in the bank. no big wins to claim my losses against this year.

thus ends my wins for 2008. no more money will be added to my lotto account for 2008. i will be headed to idaho for my birthday and use the lotto money for last year to go to idaho. i will be expecting a ticker tape parade when i go to lewiston idaho.

oh the losers. oh the losers are such a long list. i am happy i got a couple of road trips to help me in my lotto buying experiences. i want to thank all my employers and family tragedies which gave me an opportunity to lose my money in many states. thank you thank you thank you. and now onto the losing tickets.

montana hot lotto loser with a sizzler 36 dollars

pennsylvania powerball loser with powerplay 20 dollars

montana powerball loser with powerplay 36 dollars

montana millionaire raffle 20 dollars

new jersey pick 6 loser 8 dollars

new jersey megamillions 16 dollars

nebraska powerball with powerplay 48 dollars

i am happy i can help provide an economic boost to the player of the states above. 

i have added to my list of tickets this year too. 

i already spoke about buying 2 canadian tickets. i am just waiting for the acknowledgements from the bc lottery corporation. 

well i had on my calendar the change over for powerball and i was going to go to oregon to get me another power ball ticket. i didn't know if my north carolina connection would be able to help out in a timely manner. i have not heard from her in a while. so i thought the ecomonmy might have gottent ot her family. it has gotten to my family. still i have had hard times before and maintained my powerball play. 

i was going to go with the wife or a friend of mine to oregon but the powers that be ruled each one out. plus it was raining (yes i know it is the northwest) but i was going anyway. i needed to go the wednesday after the changeover to get my power ball ticket. 

i was planning on making a nice slow day down there because of the rain. i was going to stop a few places going south. well i had the radio on in my car and heard that they might be closing the highway because of flooding. i was like oh no. i was not going to drive to idaho through the snow on the mountains. well i just took off and kept driving. i didn't even stop for gas and i knew i was low on gas. 

when i got down to the troubled area it was still open and my gas light was coming on and off but i kept going. once i got near the high ground south of the area i pulled over to get some gas. while i was in the store people were doing things to protect their homes and their well being. the waters were going to be threatening the store i was in and they were thinking of closing. 

i left there and continued south to oregon. as i got into oregon the rain stopped and all was good i thought. 

i looked at the new play slip in the store and let out a yelp of happiness. my dreams had finally come through. OREGON had finally extended the amount of draws i could play the game. it extended the plays to 26 drawings in a row with powerplay. well i was not planning on spending that much money but i got me a ticket for 26 drawings with power play for 52 dollars. ouch. i also got me a megabucks ticket for 10 drawings with the kicker. i could have done more but i did not have that much cash on me. so i was a happy camper.

i go out to my car and listen to the radio and the highway was still open. i talked to two friends of mine and then head home. i get 2 exits out of town heading norht and i hear they just shut the highway down. not only did it get shut going north south. there was no way to get back into the seattle area for anyhow. i couldn't go the coast or the mountain or through canada. i was stuck in this town for 2 days. the first night i was trying to get a room with people whose local river was going to flood too. arrrgggh. 2 days with hardly any money in a motel 6. still i was happy with my lotto ticket. lol.

i purchased a few megamillion tickets here in washington and some wa lotto tickets too. i would go into more details about those tickets but i am getting short on time. superbowl is coming up.

future trips! i have one planned for jacksonville florida. i am already looking forward to getting a powerball ticket from there good for 6 months right along with a florida ticket with the 3x time kicker. now that is almost $160 for the one ticket.

ok go steeler. i am a very very luke warm supporter of the steelers. my teams are out of it.

mister power and mister mega hook me up. i need the money in this ecomonmy.

peace

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Mood: Good

Now Playing: Manabu Ohishi:Awakened Breezes

nothing like piano music with ladies oohing and la la ing. the perfect music to write my blog.

well i think i have decided to open up a canadain bank account. i can't figure a way to handle my canadian checks. maybe when i win the big one i can just walk out of the office up there and deposit it in my account. i was going to run up there tomorrow but i am going to wait until another time. hopefully before the year runs out.

lets see. i am sending off two tickets, 1 to north carolina and 1 to south dakota. i hit the powerball a while back and i think i mentioned it here already. i also hit the the hot lotto in south dakota. i got a 100% return on my ticket.

i played the sizzler and i won on two different days and got back the 18 dollars i spent there. i need to break that 100% barrier like i did in canada.

ok i did make it back to nyc for the funeral and i was a wreck but i did get my lotto.

i got 2 separate drawings for the new york lottery. they have a very stupid and arcane way of playing advance play for the ny lottery. you can only do 2 advance play tickets in ny. so i got my 2 and they were both losers. oh well.

i stayed in new jersey and i picked up a 8 drawing ticket for the pick 6 in jersey. i also picked up 1 megamillion ticket when i first got there. after a few days and the pot was still high i broke down and got another 8 drawing ticket in new jersey. i didn't do the pick 6 again because i am not made out of money. lol.

well PA is the opposite way and only about 25 minutes from where i was staying and off i went with the misses to PA to get a ticket. i get to this little place in easton and the guy is on the phone. i made the mistake of asking him if he knew how to do the advance play. he tells me yeah and of course he starts doing it all wrong. i had to stop him and told him i wanted to fill out the form. he could not figure out how to do 11 advance plays with the powerplay. so i tore that one up and did another for 10 drawings which took me up to the cut off date for the change over.

now i am up against the change over for powerball with colorado, montana, and PA. which means i have to go to oregon in january to get my next tickets. my north carolina connection gets forgetful sometimes and doesn't buy them on time. so i will be headed down there right after the changeover and hopefully the price of gas stays down.

i did have a washington lotto win. i hit for 3 dollars on 2 separate drawings. i also had a mega million loser for washington. i had a south dakota powerball loser too. i also have a kentucky winner. this was the ticket that i did not play the power play. i still have a few more drawings on that this one. so i will be closing it out this week and purchashing a new washington lotto.

well i think that about covers it.

oh no one more thing or maybe two.

one i am headed down to cali for a social visit. i am going to get tickets down there too. i am hoping no one wins the cali lottery before i get there. it will be up to 29 million by saturday if no one hits it. i am thinking of getting a set. by one set on saturday with max drawings and then buy another set of max drawings on sunday. then i want to buy me maybe 40 dollars worth of the big spin tickets scratch off game. i want to spin that damn wheel for the money.

well the 2nd thing went away and now it is time for me to go away too. until next time.

mr power and mister mega thank you and mister mega you can stop on my numbers!!!

peace

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i feel like dancing right now. i mean this minute. my wife comes to me to let me know that she found a check for me from the canadians. i love the people in the BC province in how they just send me my checks when i win. i got a check for 66 dollars canadian. i am almost back to what i  spent when i was up there last. i have to make plans to go back there again for next month. nothing more to tell you other than my next ticket to check will be from north carolina. i think it runs out this week but i don't know.

to you too Johnnie!

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i came down to send off my three tickets to get my money and i have done absolutely nothing. i did get around to checking out my iowa tickets. i got one winner thanks to mister power and i think i won back about 60% of my money. i won 12 dollars on a 20 dollar ticket. if my math is wrong oh well. oh yeah the blue man gets to boogie on this one. my other ticket was a loser. still the kitty grows. maybe i will have enough for 2 nights in a hotel and gas money for my birthday trip across washington. i was hoping for a trip back to iowa to collect a couple of hundred thousand dollars. oh yes the other ticket was a hot lotto loser.

and love from me.

man i am getting worse and worse about doing this.

anyway let me ramble to get my thoughts out.

st. louis trip netted three illinois tickets. the little lotto is a loser already. i got a mega and a lotto still.

i got a kentucky powerball ticket for 26 drawings no power play. i was bummed i screwed up.

i got a missouri powerball ticket with power play and missouri lotto ticket.

in the airport i got a minnesota powerball ticket with power play and i got a hot lotto ticket with sizzler (whoo whoo!)

i got a check from new york state for a mega million ticket. i am sending a new one to collect.

i am sending 3 tickets to oregon. i had a winner with powerball with a 2x multiplier. i hit on the oregon megabucks on 2 separate ticets.

i am sending away for a powerball winner with the multiplier to north carolina. it is still under a 50 dollars.

i got in the mail a powerball ticket from north carolina good until december 26. i see a trip to oregon in december.

i got a check in the mail to replace the stale check i had from british columbia. not much but 8 dollar is 8 dollars. oh crap it is canadian. just kidding.

i had a loser on the washington lotto. i need to pick up a ticket for that today but not for the full 10 draws.

200 million is looking good for me. it could come from NC, MN, MO.or KY.

OK I have to run to the bank to put in my check and the cash i won locally.

thank you mister power and mega for bringing a little joy to my life.

one last thing. i am out of work again but i have a side job going to help keep me afloat.

i am still alive but just busy. i am going to st. louis and going on a multistate lotto run. i will try to update while i am at the hotel.

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we get a little dancing because we have a little win. mister mega was thinking of me. i won 3 dollars on 26 dollar ticket. i will keep buying tickets through my new york connection so that maybe i can win the big prize one day.

the love guru! lol is a funny movie. go see it.

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well i got around to checking on that powerball ticket and it was a loser. nothing like losing 26 times in a row at two dollars a pop.  that ticket was from PA by the way.

i did manage to bring the losing to a halt! oh yeah we can let the blue man do a little dancing! once again my home state gave me another winner. nothing like getting cash back from your ticket. oh yeah it may be small but it is mine. i got a 2 dollar win off a megamillion. MISTER MEGA WAS THINKING ABOUT ME. oh yeah. i got back 2 dollars of my 10 dollars. still it is something to take to the bank. at the price of gas it might not be worth the special trip. lol.

oh yeah  i over looked another win. from new york. the ticket expired on the date of my last up date. another 2 dollar win on the megamillion. woohoo. mister mega  likes me. kewl.

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mood: good

now playing: johnny "clyde" copeland: Black Cat Bone

lately i have been listening to the blues on comcast. just in a bluesy frame of mind. could it be the incredibly long losing streak i got going on now. shall i count the ways for you? i will do just that. i am going to leave the amounts off.

wa megamillion loser

or powerball loser

or megabucks loser

or megabucks loser

wa lotto loser

wa megamillion loser

ny megamillion loser

i may have a long streak of losing tickets but i don't have the blues. i had the dream that i won the 196 million on the megamillions. i just saw today that it was a winning ticket in ohio. i have no tickets from there at all. i do have a bunch coming due. i put some money in the bank but i am way under a hundred dollars.

i have in the mail a powerball ticket from north carolina. i am bummed out that i can't get a 52 draw ticket from them anymore. oh well.

i did get a lot depressed when the last big jackpot for powerball was won and i didn't get a hit at all. well i haven't checked that ticket yet. it is good until this weekend.

not traveling like i used to travel. still i will be in oregon next month and will pick up some more powerball tickets. july will see me in idaho and september will see in missouri. if i can afford the gas i will drive down to ky to get me another powerball ticket. my next trip to canada i will be getting another super 7 ticket and maybe a pick 6. this friday i am going to pick up a raffle ticket here for 20 bucks.

well that is about it. i don't think mister power or mister mega will be giving me any wins for awhile. karma is not going my way.

peace!!!

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wow a new way to do the blogs. well i am feeling fine and i don't have any music on.

i had a 3 dollar win on a 10 dollar wa lotto. my canadian ticket expired and i am looking forward to my canadian check. i picked up another 10 dollar wa lotto ticket. i just got another 26 draw mega ticket from new york. i got my fingers crossed that my friend will pick up a powerball ticket for me in DC. i need to check my new jersey tickets when i got some time. i might be headed to idaho to pick up a powerball ticket there.

this is all the time i have to up date. i have to go to work now. more to the point is to thaw out my car. lol.

mister power and mister mega come and take me away from the work world.

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well it is late and i have not done much to check anything out for the lottery. all i managed to do was put the new tickets in order from newest to oldest. I have about 11 dollars cast and a bunch of tickets. i would check some more but i don't think i will right now.

 i did check the wa lottery and dances again. it was a 6 dollar win on a 20 dollar ticket. that was a better than 10% return. i didn't have the money to get a 20 dollar ticket but i got another 10 draw 1 dollar ticket with my numbers i like to play here.

i did check my million for life ticket from the bc lottery and it was a loser. still the big winner of the 25 million ticket was from bc and not to far from where i purchased my ticket. just not close enough.

on a serious side i wanted to win enough to lay my brother to rest with our mom. my family and i didn't have enough money to lay him to rest. we only had enough money for the service and to have him cremated. my heart is saddened that i don't have enough money to do that with his remains. his daughter is holding onto the remains and i will contact her this weekend to see what we can plan to lay him to rest with my mom.

lotto is lotto but life is real. i had to deal with reality there. i had to borrow money to get a plane ticket to go back for the funeral. i am hoping i can get at least another 1000 hit this year to help me get caught up with some bills.

on a funny side. the last big mega millon jackpot winners cracked me up. this older couple did all these interviews for the morning shows. the one i liked best was the old guy was saying real slow that he wanted to get a 4 wheel drive something and his wife said real quick that they were going to get a mercedes. he then muttered under his breath oh yeah we will get a mercedes. he reminded me of the little boy with his face painted for halloween as a skeleton telling a reporter that he liked turtles. it is funny to me.

i was trying to sit down to see what winners i had but my girl got sick and i had to run out to get some cold medicene for her. by the time i got back well i just didn't feel like checking numbers and sending out tickets to get my money back. i still hope there is a big winner but it will have to wait until tomorrow.

lastly my cali connection is moving onto another job. i won't be able to get anymore cali tickets through her and i will miss her company to and from work.

well i think that will be about all. i still would like to see powerball get up over 300 million before someone hits it.

mister power let that someone be me and mister mega let me hit you too. as always your boy.