Johnny,
It must have taken a number of lawyer, lottery andaccountant types to figure this out... I am reminded, of course, of the famous Rudyard Kipling poem:
Rudyard Kipling
If
If you can keep your head when all about you
Are losing theirs and blaming it on you;
If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,
But make allowance for their doubting too;
If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,
Or, being lied about, don't deal in lies,
Or, being hated, don't give way to hating,
And yet don't look too good, nor talk too wise;
If you can dream - and not make dreams your master;
If you can think - and not make thoughts your aim;
If you can meet with triumph and disaster
And treat those two imposters just the same;
If you can bear to hear the truth you've spoken
Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools,
Or watch the things you gave your life to broken,
And stoop and build 'em up with wornout tools;
If you can make one heap of all your winnings
And risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss,
And lose, and start again at your beginnings
And never breath a word about your loss;
If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew
To serve your turn long after they are gone,
And so hold on when there is nothing in you
Except the Will which says to them: "Hold on";
If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,
Or walk with kings - nor lose the common touch;
If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you;
If all men count with you, but none too much;
If you can fill the unforgiving minute
With sixty seconds' worth of distance run -
Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it,
And - which is more - you'll be a Man my son!
Gosh, PKL... sorry to hear of the phone woes..
I can't even use the "dumb" cell phone my wife supplied me a couple of years back. I keep it on the kitchen window sill and put it in the glove compartment when I drive somewhere. but I never turn it on and can never remember how to work it. Locked myself out of the voice mail, but I don't care. Still have to depend on my Windstream land line... works much better than my internet service. Hope they get you up and about quickly. Funny... I watched an "All in the Family" episode today from 1973... Archie had his new super fancy $300 watch for which he paid $25 stop working. Edith took it to have it repaired, but the jeweler told them it would cost $21 and the watch was worth $8.
Listen to the names of these racing pigs! Ok, I admit I'm bored, but it is racing from Wilson!
By the way, the "Goat Rodeo" starts around the 3 minute mark!
