Today's Quote

If you hear a voice within you say 'you cannot paint,' then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced.

-Vincent Van Gogh

No one won the Lotto Texas Lottery last night, so it’s going up.

Here are the numbers from December 6^th, 2006:

13 - 20 - 21 - 23 - 34 - 47

You’re Numbers:

The next drawing is on Wednesday, December 9^th, 2006

Estimated Jackpot Calculation Documents

There are only 7 of us playing this game, and we all purchase equal shares, so each of us would get (before any attorney fees, taxes or tithes):

$ 957142.85

I am real excited that this Jack Pot is now close to one million per person.  I would love to see us win this anytime after the Cash Option gets to $7 Million.  (Okay we can win it Saturday and you will hear no complaints from me.)

I now have six of the original seven members pay for Game Two.  So far no new members have joined.  As I said before, if all seven pay the same amount for Game Two and all seven pay, then I will just purchase more tickets for this game (Game One) and we will continue playing.

At Citi, we get paid on the 15^th of December, and I will be off that Friday and Saturday.  I can easily purchase us more tickets for that Saturday’s Game.

Calling the Last Rites

A man is struck by a bus on a busy street in New York City. He lies dying on the sidewalk as a crowd of spectators gathers around. "A priest! Somebody get me a priest!" the man gasps. A policeman checks the crowd but finds no priest, no minister, no man of God of any kind.

"A PRIEST, PLEASE!" the dying man says again. Then out of the crowd steps a little old Jewish man of at least eighty years of age.

"Mr. Policeman," says the man, "I'm not a priest. I'm not even a Catholic. But for fifty years now I'm living behind St. Mary's Catholic Church on Third Avenue, and every night I'm listening to the Catholic litany. Maybe I can be of some comfort to this man."

The policeman agrees and brings the octogenarian over to the dying man. He kneels down, leans over the injured and says in a solemn voice: "B - 4. I - 19. N - 38. G - 54. O - 72."