(In)surely you jest!

The other week I had to get blood drawn for life insurance. Insurance is a gamble for me. At this point in my life I have no classic beneficiaries. I may some day. But now, I don’t. The people that will benefit at this point. When I die. My parents will reap the rewards of the reaper. I more than likely will out live them, so I don’t know who will ‘benefit’ from my death then. There is a little girl that I love. She will more than likely be a beneficiary of my demise, but until then it is my parents.

It is an odd thing life insurance. I have insurance through my work that is a tidy sum. I also now have insurance for myself. Personal insurance for a personal demise. Insurance is for the future of others, but not of the insured. I get nothing out of it. It is supposedly for peace of mind. The peace of mind of others. The people you leave behind.

I am not leaving anyone behind at this point.

But I may if I don’t get my cholesterol down. Lucky numbers 254.

Ace in the Hole

I am sucked into scratch cards on a regular basis. They are an easy way to make sure I do a lottery a day. There are machines all over the place in Seattle. All waiting to take your cash. They even don’t make change. You only have a $20. That’s fine. You can get 10 $2 tickets. You can get 4 $5 tickets. But you can’t get change. You are fully committed. For good or bad.

Tonight when I picked up the tasty goodness needed for roasting a chicken, I also needed a lottery card. There is a wide selection of cards out there to scratch from. There is a card that was once shilled by Jack LaLanne called ‘Lucky for Life’.

I myself am fond of one called ‘Ace in the Hole’. Mostly because of the blatant connection to gambling. It says what it is, it doesn’t deny it.

Occasionally, I win the ‘Hole’ card. Not tonight.

The life gamble today wasn’t a big deal. Pun intended. I reached out to someone new. Time to broaden the circle.

There are no sure things…

I have been a process that was the end result of a sure thing. This was a bet I thought I had no chance of losing. A bet that I had never had made before that time and I was excited to roll the dice. So I did. I won’t say it was snakes eyes, but it certainly wasn’t the run expected. I am all for making that type of bet again, but I know that there are no sure things.

I am sure of that.

Daily Game Number: 345,608, 754