If anyone is planning a move…
I highly DON’T recommend it!
My shoulder is still hurting from our move last Wednesday. It also seems that you can never get fully unpacked for a few months…
I’m back!
Sorry for the quietness around here lately…
I had to take a few days off to move, but now we are getting all settled in at the new place and things are starting to return to normal.
BTW Brett Favre through in the towel this morning… Nothing like quitting a 17 year career after throwing your last pass, which just so happened to be an interception!
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Missing ND Lottery Ticket Claimed
Looks like the ticket was turned in, but the winners chose to remain anonymous.
A Bismarck man and woman stepped up to the counter at the North
Dakota Lottery office on Friday to claim their Powerball prize.
Finally. It had been nearly a month since they’d purchased the ticket
at a local gas station.After taxes, each of them stepped back
into the elevator with a check worth $138,920. It would have been
interesting to watch the security footage of that ride back down to
earth.Unfortunately, that might be the only way to find out who
the lucky winners are. They chose to collect their prize anonymously.
So there’s no answer to who won the $400K, but Friday’s redemption at
least ended four weeks of speculation as to what happened to the ticket.”One of their first comments was ‘This might clear up a few questions,'” lottery spokeswoman Donna Thronson said.The
two Powerball players bought the winning ticket Jan. 26 at Main Tesoro,
with the agreement that they’d split any proceeds. But they forgot to
check the ticket after that day’s drawing – and the next drawing and
the one after that.It wasn’t until they read a story about the unclaimed ticket in the Tribune that they fished it out and reviewed the numbers.”Sometimes
we don’t check our tickets for weeks,” one of them said, according to
Thronson. “We couldn’t believe we won. I kept checking the ticket again
and again to make sure my eyes weren’t playing tricks on me.”The pair won the largest amount given out in Bismarck since the state got into the lottery game in 2004.In
those four years, 14 North Dakota players have won $100,000 or more
playing Powerball. The largest prize won in this state was $1 million,
claimed by Kevin Green, who drew the ticket in Williston in March 2006.
The second-biggest amount was $600,000, claimed by an anonymous group
of people in Lisbon in June 2006.
Can’t say I blame them. I bet after any substantial windfall the “friends” and “relatives” come out of the woodwork left and right!
Just Not Worth The Money
I was just reading an article on lasik eye surgery and I thought to myself, maybe I should have this done now that I can afford it. Then I thought, nope its not worth it.
Wearing contacts is such a minor annoyance to me, that the cost of removing that annoyance from my life does not make sense.
I estimate that I spend about $200 a year on contacts and solution. So in order for there to be a cost savings and we estimate the surgery to be about $1800-2000, it would take 10 years to pay for itself.
Nope just not worth it to me.
What common procedures are available to you that are not worth the money?
Giving Credit Where Credit is Due…
Sometimes with the amount of volume of “stuff” that crosses my desk I forget where I seen something when I post it and forget to give props back to the original author, or in this case the guy that showed me the content…
At any rate, my friend Rob over at Stuffleufagus was the one that showed me the last video…
Thanks Rob for a needed laugh!
Verizon to offer Unlimited Plans
Verizon announced that they are going to offer unlimited plans to their users starting February 19th (tomorrow).
I always wondered why this wasn’t done years ago. This could be a major influence in areas like ours with only 2 real cel phone competitors. If one offers unlimited minutes and the other does not and you are a heavy cell phone user, the choice is pretty clear on which vendor to use.
I see all major networks offering unlimited plans by year end. My guess is within 2 years there will no longer be restrictions on minutes, but rather a per month charge similar to internet or landline service.
HDMI Cables for Cheap
If anyone has bought a big screen or high definition TV lately and did not buy an HDMI cable to go with it because of the price, you are in luck now!
On Amazon, you can get 6 foot HDMI cables for under $3 each! This is the only way to enjoy high-def TV! You can literally see the difference using HDMI versus anything else when you walk in the room.
