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How the same fortune cookie paid off big-time for 110 total strangers

Posted on December 22, 2024

Living (and loving) Life

Have you have ever dined at a Chinese restaurant?

If so, you probably received a fortune cookie with a set of lottery numbers printed on the little slip of paper that had the “fortune” on it.

Lots of folks actually purchase lottery tickets with the numbers from their fortune cookies, but only rarely does it ever pay off.

After all, those fortune cookie lottery numbers are simply made up out of thin air.

In other words, playing the numbers from a fortune cookie is essentially no better or worse than having the lottery machine pick your numbers at random on your behalf.

But one day back in 2005 (March 30, to be exact), 110 lucky folks won big by playing the same set of “fortune cookie lottery numbers”.

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Video: Enjoy this awesome acoustic rendition of the “surf” classic “Pipeline”

Posted on July 21, 2024

Living (and loving) Life

Marty Stuart and his Fabulous Superlatives are widely considered to be among the best musicians in the world. Every member of this group has mastered multiple instruments and they always put on an amazing show.

Today’s video features Kenny Vaughan demonstrating his mastery of the guitar with an acoustic rendition the 1960s era surf-music song “Pipeline”.  [Read more…]

Video: Great Pyrenees – The ‘gentle giants’ of the canine world

Posted on July 18, 2024

Some species of herding dogs are among the world’s largest canines, and they are also among the most beautiful.

Case in point: the solid white Great Pyrenees that can be seen guarding herds and flocks in many countries around the globe.  [Read more…]

Why we Americans celebrate Independence Day

Posted on July 3, 2024

Living (and loving) Life

Today is a very special day here in the United States of America.

Yes, it’s the 4th of July. But it’s so much more than that.

July 4th by itself would be just another date on the calendar.

Just another hot, sticky summer day with folks doing whatever they do on any other hot, sticky summer day.

But July 4 is special because it’s the day we Americans celebrate our nation’s independence and the freedoms we all enjoy because of it.

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Want to add an extra dimension to your life? Learn to enjoy reading.

Posted on June 30, 2024

Living (and loving) Life

“A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies. The man who never reads lives only one.“
     -–George R.R. Martin


In a previous post I wrote about the greatest gift I ever received from my dad.

Today, I’d like to expand on that theme a bit.

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