Powerball Simulator

Powerball Simulator

ok..so i dont play alot...but what if...just what if..you were that one who won...can anyone tell me what the odds are in real life you could have 40 million dollars by working?
Just a thought...

Here it shows me playing twice a week for seven years and my profit loss was about $6500
I wonder how many lattes that amounts to?  I did, however find out what were the chances of me becoming at least a millionaire:

Based on  2005 research paper, titled “Is This a Great Country? Upward Mobility and the Chances for Riches in Contemporary America,” Thomas A. DiPrete reported:
Those in the middle and upper-middle (the 50th to 75th percentile) had between a 15% and 18% chance of reaching income of more than $200,000 a year. They have only a 5% to 6% chance of making more than $340,000 a year.

Speaking of odds and chances..check out this cool little link  http://www.funny2.com/odds.htm...to leave you in a bright note, according to this site..you have a better chance of getting killed in a car accident than becoming a millionare...but ill take my chances!

Best Summer Wines Under $25 : Shopping Sources : Architectural Digest

Best Summer Wines Under $25 : Shopping Sources : Architectural Digest

if ever i am going to begin to drink 'finer' wine than my Boones (comes in a variety of flavors, kinda like Kool Aid), I guess here is the best place to start..the only question I have is that for the Sommeliers that were interviewed, they recommended not having a deep red wine because of the summer heat...what if you live somewhere like where I live in deep south Texas, where heat is as common as fajita cook-offs or bar-b-q pits on the front driveway...oh well, i will get started on this list and get back later on a novice perspective on these....

25 year storm 2012 pt. 3

23rd and Camelia

 

 

 

 





 

 

 

 

25 year storm 2012, part 2

down Camelia

lots of storm damage here...

Really severe damage...

just put up this fence for the McHI baseball park recently...

Softball field at McHI

McHI

McHI CATE building...ice buildup in the middle of the afternoon!

another picture of ice buildup

notice the heighth of the ice!  wonder how it looked while it happened..miracle nothing else broke!

pic of the walking trail off Bicentennial

25 year storm part 1

This is the first part of my pictures of the hail storm that happened the night of March 29, 2012.
What was amazing to me was the resilience of people to get things back on track and clear the areas of debris!  Just want to note that I took alot of pics of left over hail because I was surprised to see hail that had not melted in the middle of the afternoon at 90 degrees!


Municpal Park..this is the stairs that go up to the slide..it was bolted to the ground

 




Municipal park..there is not supposed to be a lake here

 




white stuff up against the building..left over hail...at 2:30pm next day

 



this is a house just south of Milam Elementary..most houses have an old look to them..that was the power of the hail chipping away at everything; paint, roofs, tree leaves, bark..everything...





flooding at milam






bill schupp park..bad pic, sorry, the jerk behind me was pushing me to go faster...

 



bill schupp park






Dairy Queen..again...hail left over..its 2-3pm!

 



another shot at dairy queen






more hail buildup

 

Make Mine Freedom (1948)

Its strange how we think that the ideals and policies that our leaders tout are new and bold.  This video is from 1948.  This is not some right wing propoganda thought up by Reagan and Bush.  It doesnt stem from Cheney or Halliburton.  It's this belief that 'fair' and social justice means that everyone plays by the same rules and no one gets hurt and that the few with the most must give up what they have and be force to give to the majority with the little.  there is a quote from this 60 something year old cartoon that sums up what is going on today:
   "When anybody preaches disunity, tries to pit one of us against the other through class warfare, race hatred, or religious intolerance, you know that person seeks to rob us of our freedom and destroy our very lives.  Working together to produce an ever greater abundance of material and spiritual values for all; that is the secret of american prosperity!"

-AMEN TO THAT!

with my wife's Nikon L220

St. Thomas Aquinas - Saints & Angels - Catholic Online

St. Thomas Aquinas - Saints & Angels - Catholic Online

My first blog!

Lets see...since this is my first blog and Im posting my first blog at 10pm on a Sunday night, Ill make this first one brief as I can.

The name of my blog:  I chose the name with the help of my friend Shannon.  I have been molding and shaping and recreating my life in many many many ways since 16 years of age.  I think I have had a total of 35 jobs and counting.  I have worked as a waiter, a customer service rep , a framer, a telemarketer, a salesman, architectural drafter, engineering technician, an illustrator for semiconductors, as a technician for power plants, a merchandiser, a pollster, a surveyor, a city planner technician, a mold technician, insurance adjuster (homes, then auto, then total loss and total theft), a take out server, a cashier at the museum, a cashier at a drugstore, a satellite provider customer service specialist, and finally a teacher (i have taught a preporatory, engineering graphics, architectural graphics, business management, technology systems and now special education).  I may have forgotten a couple but Ill add those in later if I remember.  During my varied career 'one nighters', i also found time to go to school and graduate after completing over 241 hours of college credit!  I took most if not all the ologies and several math and science courses....but only one degree, two associates, and finishing my Graduate studies thus far.. hence the Potter's Wheel; still molding, shaping, and recreating my life and things around it...