Acrylic pouring art - WOW! / F&M Bank / Parlay cards

My brother and wife and 2 dogs came down yesterday for a visit and game night and while my brother and I were playing POWER GRID, Stacey and DJ were watching videos about a new art form which Stacy is doing called Acrylic pouring  - AMAZING!!!  So easy and yet so hard

Here is a you tube video of how it's done.  it's not how you think

https://youtu.be/sCjXhO8uDdE

MEANWHILE - Still going through moms stuff and you remember all of her stories I printed a while ago?  WELL, there are 30 (THIRTY) books of writings. all of her daily diary's from when she realized my dad was dying to just before she passed.  WOW!    

VERY VERY good writing and if there are people who lost loved ones and are near suicidal this would he a GREAT read.  It shows how dark it was in her life and SLOWLY things get better. It shows hope.  good days bad days but as things go one more and more good.  

Another thing is the freakishly frank details of her kids and her thoughts, a what she likes about us and dislikes.  Some a little embarrassing at times.   We also found a lot of history.  The deed from the late 1800's of her parents farmland,  a news paper clipping the day after Abe Lincoln was killed.  Lots of history.

Then I took Ralls (brother) to the F&M bank as he is a historical architect and he did not know it was built by Sullivan (a person he has studied). 

And this little thing from my home town 

     
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MEANWHILE - my brother who owned his own very successful architectural firm  retired last month so he could move back north to Wisconsin and he was hired by Manards in Green Bay part time in the plumbing department at a whopping $10 an hour.  They needed extra cash until the Springfield house sells.

YUP - going rate is a non-life sustaining $10 an hour.  And he's gotten 5 more job offers but all are ONLY full time . . also at $10 an hour from Home Depot and so forth.  Seems there are issues with finding workers who want to work at a wage that will not really let them live a full life - - - BUT - it boosts the job numbers. He's WAY WAY over qualified but does get some extra cash.

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STILL can't get my phone to accept any Yahoo Password. I got a new iPhone 11 Pro for basically free as an upgrade from my iPhone 8 . . .a free $55 upgrade.  Nothing Yahoo works so I had to get the Yahoo app as the phone just will not accept a valid password UNLESS it's in the yahoo app.  Irritating. 

Otherwise it's great!  LOVE the cameras.

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A study of 401K participants showed that the plans near the top always had more money invested in them, even when they were switched around. This is sort of like Florida and elections.  The GOP created a rule where Republicans were always on top of that ballot.  Did not have to do with a name but the party was always the first one. 

That was recently changed by a judge that said it was sort of illegal when it came to elections. SURPRISE - the GOP did something illegal and got away with it for a decade.  The party of corruption.  And people wonder why so many are leaving the party?

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Las Vegas is saying so long parlay cards.  HELLO KNOCK KNOCK ANYBODY HOME?  The reason is that they have been cracked.  WELL YEA!!

They just realized it's easy money?  ELWEED and I cracked the code decades ago.   Cards are printed on Tuesday pick them up on Wednesday, wait for REAL lines to change and take advantage of the old lines.  In Madison there were 4 different cards so you could pick and choose the lines.

It was free money every week.  Only once did we have to wait an extra week to get paid as a group of 10 guys each put $10 on a 10 team parlay . . . and it won!  a 10 teamer pays 720-1 so the bars had to come up with a quick $72,000.  They paid the big winners but us little guys had to wait a week.

I find it funny Las Vegas is just realizing the code has been cracked when in September 35 cards won at a 550-1 chance. (not sure what 550-1 would be).

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Since May 2017 there have been 183,000 more jobs in the restaurant industry but wages are just stupid low.  The average cook makes $27,000 a year ($13 an hour) and 31% of restaurants do not offer any health care.  And you wonder why there is a serious lack of cooks? And dare I say a more serious lack of GOOD cooks.

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Have a great weekend