Post something good that happened today, Parts Two

[Arya Quinn]

M'erica took not just a step, but a leap forwards into the 21st century

[DirtDawg]

^IKEA is the work of the devil.

Does God build from scratch?

He buys from better stores.

I thought he/she/it already made all the "scratch" needed to build whatever is fun to play with.

 

[DirtDawg]

My wife won a hundred dollars on a state lottery scratch ticket!   

Fuckin' rocks, dude!!

Most I have ever won is ten US$. (Can not even imagine how many hundreds I played to get lucky --- once.)

I rarely do such, being so universally unable to "access" luck and shit, but my wife seems to do better than I can at the "Ghetto lotto."

She actually hit the "Lucky Sevens"  one time (couple of years back)  and brought home a car full of groceries when we really needed it (I was not working or gambling, mostly thought I was dying, but I am back) along with about three hundred bucks to use for what ever!!

OH!  "Lucky Sevens"  is a local game where you play craps and when you win, you take home seven hundred bucks
(I am talking about $US, not sure who I am typing/talking to, but if it was Euros it might be considerably less [kind of funny how so much less/fewer of our worth less/ lower valued  USA$$ can buy so much more valuable shit, right?  One of those true economic quandaries, right??, lol] and in OZ$, sorry it has lost so damn much over the years -when I was a kid the Aussie buck was worth more than two of our continental US$bucks-,   we can talk about that if you need, but I would prefer not)

Anyway, I have NEVER come out ahead!!

Only my (treasured)  wife has won at local lotto.

Your wife may have superpowers, dude!

Sounds like we both have keepers!  I actually can lay claim to a large number of "throwbacks"  in my history. That is one damn good way to know how to recognize a "keeper" when you see one, right?.

 

edit: sorry, it is not my spelling, as sad and questionable as it might be, my typing seems to be more of an issue today.

:lol:

Playing the $1 scratch tickets is one of our little indulgences.  So it was pretty cool to win that amount, most of the time it's $1 winners with the occasional $2, $5, $10 and a $20.  Yep, my wife is a keeper!  So it was good that she started off the day with a big smile.   

And yes, we never come out ahead, but, things seem to balance out in the end.  I quit playing the mega bucks tickets and did win $40 once, but, the amount I put in was more than what I won.  But, that's how gambling works!  So we keep it at a little indulgence.  I see many people come into the store and buy vast quantities of tickets or go in with a wad a cash and wad of numbers to play for the big games.  If the mood hits me, I'll play one game and see what happens.   

Yeah, me too. I'll drop a buck or two when I dip in for a beer or two, sometimes, but I am well beyond keeping any delusion that I am going to offset my gambling "investments" by scratching vinyl off printed paper.
 

[Queen Victoria]

I bought volume 1 -10 of the Amber Chronicles.  I'd reason the first story, but the library never got the others.  My search of 30+ years is over.

[odeon]

^IKEA is the work of the devil.

Does God build from scratch?

He buys from better stores.

I thought he/she/it already made all the "scratch" needed to build whatever is fun to play with.

 

In the beginning god created money.

[odeon]

I bought volume 1 -10 of the Amber Chronicles.  I'd reason the first story, but the library never got the others.  My search of 30+ years is over.

Roger Zelazny?

[Queen Victoria]

I bought volume 1 -10 of the Amber Chronicles.  I'd reason the first story, but the library never got the others.  My search of 30+ years is over.

Roger Zelazny?

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Yes.  I realized I'd read Nine Princes in the early 70's.  Been looking for it to re-read and the other books in the series.  Only took about 35 years.

[odeon]

I have a friend who loves the Amber Chronicles. Me, I've never gotten into them for some reason.

[Queen Victoria]

I'll probably find that my rates have changed.  But at least I can see.

[DirtDawg]

^IKEA is the work of the devil.

Does God build from scratch?

He buys from better stores.

I thought he/she/it already made all the "scratch" needed to build whatever is fun to play with.

 

In the beginning god created money.

Might disagree, here.

With what "god gave us"  we figured out how to tie rocks onto sticks and it was only when we discovered that one our neighbors had bigger rocks on longer sticks that someone thought to create "money."  Then, almost immediately some asshole suggested that, just like sticks with rocks tied to them, not all money was equal and then, there we go again!!

 

[Arya Quinn]

Didn't die. 

[Gopher Gary]

Didn't die. 

 

[Gopher Gary]

^IKEA is the work of the devil.

Does God build from scratch?

He buys from better stores.

I thought he/she/it already made all the "scratch" needed to build whatever is fun to play with.

 

In the beginning god created money.

Unlike some, I see what you did there. 

[Queen Victoria]

I'll probably find that my rates have changed.  But at least I can see.

This makes NO sense.  I think I meant to say if my "tastes" have changed, referring to the Amber Chronicles

[odeon]

I'll probably find that my rates have changed.  But at least I can see.

This makes NO sense.  I think I meant to say if my "tastes" have changed, referring to the Amber Chronicles

Thank you, this makes a lot more sense.