First, let's do the 1st KACHING Report of the new year.....

Saturday:

$5 loss

Sunday:

$5 (Mega $1) and a free ticket on 2 $3 Mighty Mega Bucks

$12 loss

Monday:

$7 ($5 + $2) on $1 Triple Win

$3 ($2 + $1) on $3 $100,000 Monopoly

$10 loss

Tuesday:

$25 loss (bought Cash 3 and a Millionaire Jumbo Bucks and hit nothing)

Wednesday:

$15 loss (bought Cash 3 and a Jingle Jumbo Bucks and hit nothing)

Thursday:

$5 loss

Friday:

$25 ($15 + $10) on $20 Millionaire Jumbo Bucks

Back-to-back $5 winners (both "5X" $1) and $2 ($2) on some $1 5X The Money

Free ticket on $5 Giant Jumbo Bucks

$2 profit (could be more profit if I hit anything on my 10 $0.50 Cash 3 tickets tonight -- that profit amount counts the $5 I spent on Cash 3)

The KACHING Meter for January 2, 2009:  6.0

Overall, this week wasn't that good.  I'm "batting 500" (won 1, lost 1) on those Millionaire Jumbo Bucks tickets.  Oh well.....can't have big picture-perfect wins every week.

About that lucky charm.......I replied to a thread in the lottery discussion forum about lucky charms and talked about mine and stated that I might post a picture of it later.  Well, I'll post a picture of it.  I'll warn you.....it's kinda hard to see the "pi" symbol......my scanner couldn't hit enough light on it.  You've gotta hold it in the light really well in order to see it.

(If you're curious, the other side of this scratcher coin has the current GA Lottery logo on it.)

This scratcher coin has scratched off quite a few nice winners last year, including my 2 most recent $100 winners (that I remember.....I don't know if I used this coin for my 1st 3 $100 winners last year year or not).

Until next time, may you hit big on your numbers games and scratchers.