Sunday, January 4, 2009

History is being made again

We were here when Florida started in the late 1980's with their first lottery.
Yes, we had voted for it to happen it was something that our old New Jersey roots made us do, since it worked well there and our schools had benefitted from the funds and they were great, excelling in academics programs.

So why not, we were at the time new Floridians and hoped we would reside here forever and our sons were at the ripe old ages of 10 and 14, so they would be taking advantage of the school system, which statewide at the time was quite controversial.
Fortunately, we did have the forethought to choose an area where the schools were comparable to the ones left back in New Jersey. The boys attended school in Ormond Beach and Daytona at that time and colleges after in state too. We moved to the west coast when the younger one was already a college student, and they never went to school here in our current area.

Well, what I am getting at Florida, as of today, is now one of the states that have the Powerball, a multi-state enormous mega million bucks pot with odds of 1 out 198M of winning anywhere from 96M to hundreds of millions. The physical move is one of several changes coming from Powerball's addition of Florida, as the 30th state, plus the U.S. Virgin Islands and the District of Columbia, to participate. The most ever won was by those eight meatpacking plant workers splitting 365M in Nebraska in 2006. Good luck to all who try their chance.

The President elect Obama and family have already moved to our countries capital today. Both children start in their new school tomorrow thus the few weeks before the inauguration early move. They are all temporarily staying a hotel nearby the Whitehouse.
The Obama girls will be going to the Sidwell School that is from grades PK to 12 and it is a Quaker school that has won an award for its being an Environmental Steward for its green innovations. For more information go to: http://www.sidwell.edu/, ABC did a show on the incredible use of environmentally responsible products that were incorporated into the building materials, and use of all aspects of power and other exterior elements just amazing and more doable than one would think.

Switching gears: So far the inconclusive possibility that caused Jett Travolta’s untimely death is that he suffered a sudden seizure bumping his head on the bathtub. The family is as one would imagine heartbroken.

Good night to all and to all count your blessings.

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