This week the same clerk as last week was at PLC. I told her she hadn’t done a good enough job putting in my numbers. I didn’t win so I couldn’t buy her that cup of coffee I promised. I told her to do a better job of entering my lottery slip this week. She…
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Lotteryist Week 28
This week I played the wrong lottery game. Instead of Powerball, I did Megaball. It totally messed up the “scientific” method thing that I have pretended I have going. The rules are same game using the same numbers, ticket bought at the same Personal Lottery Central on the same day of the week. Playing the…
Lotteryist Week 27
So begins the second half of this weekly (or bi-weekly, of monthly, or bi-monthly) exercise. Let us see how regularly, (or let me be honest – irregularly), I write these next 26 blogs. I must say right now I am pretty content with life. I always have plenty to eat. I always have a place…
Lotteryist Week 20
This week this post is not about the lottery. It is about Dad, Uncle Stephen, WW 2 and Stories Last week was the 75th Anniversary of the ending of World War 2. Through all the commentaries, stories and reflections, two men were in my mind – my dad, Ernest J. Merino, Jr. and my mom’s…
Lotteryist Week 19
I have been dealing with a Great Irritation – a person who wants something for nothing. The thing the person wants is not mine; it belongs to a public body. If it were mine, I would say, “Go. Take it. Live with your conscious. You have shown your true character.” But it is not mine…
Lotteryist Week 18
It’s hot. It’s July. Why should I expect anything else? But yet I complain. Not a single one of my numbers came up last week. Or the week before. Or the week before. Why should I expect anything else? But yet I complain. I may not be consistent with getting this blog written every week,…
Lotteryist Week 17
Lotteryist Week 17I am writing this during Fourth of July weekend. Knowing my excruciatingly slow progress from keyboard to web site, it may be Labor Day before it is posted. But there is always the hope (and this whole blog series is about the triumph of hope over experience) I will be efficient and timely.…
Lotteryist Week 16
During the Great Shut Down I was one of seven people allowed in our sanctuary on Sundays for worship service. The room seats 400 people easy, which made the 6-foot social distancing rule for us seven people easy, easy, easy to follow. I was allowed in because I am the musician and the piano is…
Lotteryist Week 15
Ok, this has nothing to do with the lottery, but it made me laugh, and laughing is a GOOD thing.A pair of robins must have their nest close to my driveway, because today as I left to go to Personal Lottery Central the two of them proceeded to chase my car down the drive. Very…
Lotteryist Week 14
A relative was with me this week when I went to Personal Lottery Central and was she displeased! “Going there is putting yourself at risk.”“I’ll wait in the car until no one else is there.”“Going there is putting me at risk.”“Playing the guilt card is not fair.”“Buying a lottery ticket can hardly be called essential.”“It’s…