Don't Have The Willpower To Win The Lottery? Here's The 2-Step Secret!

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Sisters shared the $2.9 million Washington Lotto jackpot. Beverly (r) said she always knew she would win - great example of willpower! PHOTO

A while back I stepped up to the scales in my bathroom.

They are not electronic. I don't like the zero point accuracy. I don't believe it helps anyone when they trying to drop some fat.

These scales are a classic design that looks very attractive in silver and gray. It has to be good looking, since I'm staring at it every week.

But this day I got an unpleasant surprise.

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MUSINGS: Can A Cellphone Really Take The Place Of A Watch?

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Last night my son and I went to a concert... a solo guitarist-singer called Paul Ubana Jones. It was a great night shared with about 200 enthusiastic people at the small inner-city venue.

It had been a while since I had ventured out in our city at night. Like many cities ours had the usual mix of the young and restless... drinkers, nightclubbers, bored street kids.

So before we went, as a precaution I removed $800 from my wallet, and left my expensive watches at home.

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The Unusual Question That No-One Could Answer - Until I took Charge

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Not our living room - this one's a little smaller.

We look out to the harbor below from our lounge window. It's a panoramic wall of glass 14-16 ft high by 35 ft long.

In other words, huge. From our position high on the hill, we feel though we're on top of the world.

And from time to time, as we look out to this captivating view, my wife asks about one of the ferries sitting out in the harbor. Because every few days, one of those large ships stays in the same spot for no apparent reason at all.

"I wonder why it's not moving," she wonders.

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