I Just Won the Lottery -- Part 2

I must be the luckiest SOB alive. I opened my email today to find a notice that I had won $300,000 in a lottery I didn't even enter! After recovering from the shock of winning such a great sum of money, I continued to read my email and found that an Iraqi and a Nigerian want me to help them get their dead client's money to the US, and in return I will receive 30% for my assistance. So in one day I netted $15,300,000!!! I guess I'll have to decide if I want to finish law school, or just drop out and start living it up with my newfound wealth. Now I'm sure you are all thinking that I made this story up. I assure it is true. To prove it, I am posting a copy of the lottery notification below. Read it and weep!


HUGHES INTERNATIONAL LOTTERY,
162 WHARFEDALE ROAD
WINNERSH TRIANGLE
WOKINGHAM BERKS,RG41 5TP
UNITED KINGDOM.

Date:11/2/2006
Ref: 435062725
Batch: 7050470902/189
Winning no: GB8101/LPRC


CONGRATULATIONS!!

Dear Sir/Madam,

We are delighted to inform you of your prize which was released on the
11th
of FEBRUARY 2006, from the Hughes International Lottery programme,which
is
fully based on an electronic selection of winners using their e-mail
addresses from some sites.

Your email address was attached to ticket number; 47001725 07056490102
and
serial number 7741134002.

This batch draws the lucky numbers as follows 5-13-33-37-42 and bonus
number
17,which consequently won the lottery in the second category.

You hereby have been approved a lump sum pay of US$300,000.00 (THREE
HUNDRED
THOUSAND DOLLARS) in cash credit file ref: ILP/HW 47509/09 from the
total
cash prize shared amongst eight lucky winners in this category.

All participants were selected through a computer balloting system
drawn
form Nine hundred
thousand E-mail addresses from Canada, Australia, United States, Asia,
Europe, Middle East, Africa and Oceania as part of our international
promotion program which is conducted annually.

This Lottery was promoted and sponsored by a conglomorate of some
multinational companies as part of their social responsibility to the
citizens in the commmunities where they have an
operational base.

Furthermore, your details(e-mail address) falls within our European
representative office in Amsterdam, Holland as indicated in your play
coupon
and your prize of US$300,000.00 will be
released to you from this regional branch office in NIGERIA.

We hope that with part of your prize, you will participate in our end
of
year high stakes for
US$1.3 Billion international draw.

HOW TO CLAIM YOUR PRIZE: Simply contact our fiducial agent,REV FR
SELEVEN
DAVETH at to file for your claim.

Please quote your reference, batch and winning number which can be
found on
the top left corner of this notification as well as your full name,
address
and telephone number to help locate your file easily.

For security reasons, we advice all winners to keep this information
confidential from the public until your claim is processed and your
prize
released to you.

This is part of our security protocol to avoid double claiming and
unwarranted taking advantage of this programme by non-participants or
unofficial personnel.

Note, all winnings MUST be claimed by the 18th of MARCH, 2006;
otherwise all
funds will be returned as Unclaimed and eventually donated to charity
organisations.

PLEASE CONTACT REV FR SELEVEN DAVETH, so that he will tell you of how
you
will receive your winning prize.

Name: REV FR SELEVEN DAVETH
Email: revselevendaveth@yahoo.com

Congratulations once again on your win!!!

Best Regards (co-ordinator)
PLEASE DO NOT REPLY THIS EMAIL. CONTACT YOUR CLAIMS AGENT AT ANY BREACH
OF
CONFIDENTIALITY ON THE PART OF THE WINNERS WILL RESULT TO
DISQUALIFICATION.

All Hail the Cheese Steak -- King of the Sandwiches

There are two things that I am going to really miss when I move from New Jersey. First is Antonino's Pizza. When we first moved here I ordered a pizza from a little shop about a mile away from our apartment and I was immediately hooked. Lindsay and I have made it a weekly tradition to order a large pepperoni pizza on either Friday or Saturday night. It is amazing. Thin, lots of greasy cheese, and a lot of pepperoni. The second thing I will miss are cheese steaks. I will probably miss these more than Antonino's Pizza. Good pizza can be found pretty much anywhere in the country, but good cheese steaks are a different story. As everyone knows, the best cheese steaks come from the lunch carts on the street. There is a guy that sets up a cart right next to campus, and he makes the best cheese steak I've ever had. It is about a foot long, filled with meat and topped with provolone cheese. The provolone melts into the steak and bun and is just amazing. My usual order is a cheese steak with mushrooms. Sometimes I add onions or peppers, and when I'm in the mood for something a little different, I'll order a pizza steak. It is basically a cheese steak with pizza sauce on it. The problem with the pizza steak is that it can be very messy, so I usually just stick to my usual. In the world of sandwiches, the cheese steak is king.

Jay's new trick

I was trying to show Jay's new teeth in the first picture. He now has a total of 12 teeth, most recently two molars on the top and two molars on the bottom. He is such a funny guy. The second picture shows his new trick. A couple days ago he started throwing things down the stairs. He picks things up off the floor, runs over to the stairs, throws them over the baby gate, and watches them fall down the stairs. He did it for about 20 minutes straight today, and the picture shows all the crap he threw down there. Jay also had his second fall down the stairs today. I went to a friend's house to watch the Super Bowl and took Jay with me. He had been upstairs with the other kids listening to a book being read. I was sitting at the foot of the stairs and I heard the mom who had been reading the book yell that he was going toward the stairs and I looked up just in time to see him take a step and fall down the stairs. He tumbled about three times along the way, and ended up with a little bump where he hit his head on the corner of the wall, but other than that he was just a little shaken up. Nothing a brownie and a little 7-up couldn't cure.