Horse Racing Problems

I went to Brennan's yesterday to bet on the Fantasy Stakes. Unfortunately, I screwed up again, a problem I have persisting...so I cashed out and decided to wait until Saturday to go to the track to finally do this job. I then proceeded to buy some Brita filters and some cole slaw and baby spinach with my winnings from the previous games played. It is in Oaklawn Park and Keeneland this weekend that I may finally get my goal achieved, and that is to get out of the $2.00 ranks into the $20.00 ranks in time to do $200 ranks at the Kentucky Derby. I am working on it. I will be checking all these programs coming up for Saturday this afternoon, as well as maybe buy a racing form tomorrow. I do best with a racing form than without especially when I want to play exotics. I had a $5.00 coupon a Brita filter box so I used it and the total cost of five filters was only $14.99 instead of $19.99 at Fry's. I must return to Fry's to buy a new pitcher before they go off the sale. I have to go to Desert School this afternoon also. Am using wifi in Clubhouse while letting cellphone recharge. Using the videocam on it today used up the battery quickly and all of sudden just like that, my phone stopped. I need to get a new phone as this one is annoying me no end.

Conference of the Gods

(This is another gathering of all the gods to Father Zeus.) Zeus gathered all the gods and goddesses together in his great court. "My son, Alexander, is growing up. I expect great things for him. He is going to do magnificent things. i expect that each one of you is going to help him in his mission while on earth and in mortal man's form." "There will be time enough for each one of you to assist not only Alexander but also his entire family, mother, father, armies, friends, and companions so that the rule of Zeus will spread throughout the land."he added. Zeus sat tall and proud on his throne which was perched high in the clouds as he amused himself watching the earthlings, mortal beings, below weave their way through the world, enjoying commerce, trade, philosophy, the arts, music, and culture. "I have decreed that Alexander shall rule all of Asia Minor, and Greece, Egypt, and India until I shall end his days in Babylon. He shall journey far and wide, and his mother and his father shall be the cause of his greatness in the world. He will spread my kingdom far and wide. Together, all of us will help him to supplant the old religions of that great empire called Persia." announced Father Zeus CloudGatherer. "Each one of you is charged to use your particular gift and talent to enable Alexander to achieve his goals," and we shall begin influencing him in his youth so that by the time he achieves manhood, he will be able to take over the business that his father has begun," Almighty Zeus continued. "I have already breathed my life's breath into him, given him my wisdom and my depths, so that he will be vigorous and brilliant in his body and mind," the great father announced. "Yeah. Yeah!" all the gods and goddesses murmured together as one. "We approve," they agreed. "Alexander is our special charge at this time, he continued. He will be endowed with genius, vitality, swiftness of foot, quickness and alertness of mind, possessing mental clarity, gifted with spiritual insights, having great psychic abilities, and he will be well endowed physically, with great muscular strength and strong physical body. His senses shall be keen and true. He shall be like the immortals except that he will be with men who are mortal. He is my true son born of the union of Philip and Olympias."

Zeus announces Alexander to the Heavens

"Yaaaaaaaaahooooooo!" Zeus roared. Everyone in the kingdom heard him and came rushing to see why he was so excited. Athena was first to reach him. "What's with you, Father Zeus", she asked. " I could hear your whooping all over the Heavens." "My son is born!" Philip and Olympias have given birth to my son!" "How did you do it this time, Father?" Did you do it in disguise? Did Olympias recognize you?" Queen Hera asked. "No, it was so easy....At his birth, I breathed my breath of life into him. I waited until he was coming out of the womb, and I gathered him to me and forced the breath of my life into him. He will have my vitality, my wisdom, my energy, my intelligence, my voice, my life for all the days of his life. He will be my voice on the earth!" Father Zeus said proudly. " He is my child, my offspring, though his earth father Philip brought him forth with Queen Olympias, he will always be known as my son." "We will watch over him for you, Great Father," shouted Athena Pallas. "We will give him great love and honor," said Aphrodite. "I will invest courage, bravery, dash and spirit into him," shouted Apollo. "I will feed him," said Demeter. "He will never want for sustenance." "I will give him faith, mysticism, belief, and steadfastness," agreed Queen Hera. "I will give him strength of character, boldness, fearlessness," cried Poseidon Earthshaker. "I will make him happy with my grapes of wisdom at all the festivals," exclaimed Dionysus. Altogether, the entire body chorused, "Together, we will rule the world with him." Father Zeus said to Apollo, "Go to see him now. I will be along soon." Apollo sped out of Heaven to stand in front of the happy Mother and Father to see the golden haired child become consecrated to Father Zeus and all the gods and goddesses in the Heavens.

Decision about Novel

I am writing a note to myself about my novel on Alexander. I mentioned this in a status report at Facebook and am wanting to remind myself to have Alexander reminisce to himself about when he had been Achilles. I thought of it today when I was mumbling to myself about the fact that in truth in time and space a person is all the persons that they had been in the past and in the future if one has a future lifetime...so it hit me that I should have Alexander remember some things about when he had been Achilles...just a device that I want to imprint on my mind now. I am considering writing the first draft out in a blog for a lot of reasons...but I am debating it with myself before taking it upon myself to do it. I have placed a lot of material on this blogspot so that I might put it here so it is all in one spot...drafts mean that changes of all kinds can take place so that the purpose would be to air it and rethink it.

Blogs

Blogging is quite an art. I have been studying a variety of different blogs, have read all kinds of advice on how to write and develop great blogs. They come in all sizes and kinds I have noticed, and some can even make money for you.

I tended to use mine as a form of my dear diary. Because I am short in the amount of time left on my allowance I am only going to just point out that I will study and learn from others and perhaps come up with a really interesting blog of my own.

I had considered even putting my first draft on a blog just so that it would or could be read by an agent editor to see if anyone might take an interest in it. Then I was advised that that was a bad idea. Conflicts because some say that is a good way to do it and others say not so.

Which is it?

Santa Anita Derby, Wood Memorial, et al

I wanted to do really well today at the races but reverted back to my usual safe and consistent pattern, and believe it or not, had another one of those things happen where something is given to me. Wonder when I will take it and bet it instead of sitting, knowing it will come, and watching it happen. I know the problem is that I would have thought why didn't I bet the whole enchilada on it instead of being such a little bit. I have to get over this reluctance to bet a sizeable amount instead of a stingy amount.

So I am sitting here, analyzing myself, and my reasons, satisfied that I did win but not enough to make it worth much. Yet, I had a chance to really multiply my take if I had only made a $20 trifecta bet. The bet had to happen for me to realize that and in realizing it I must learn from it so that next time I can actually pull it off.

I am writing this here to make note of it. At Mary's it was Triniberg who did win again today...today it was a combination of three and I knew that they were the best bet...and they did come in...New York race with Gemologist, Alpha, and the four horse...Will work this out in time to make it come through for me soon as I can.
Racing is a game that requires a lot of thought. It is money after all.

Good Friday and Joseph of Arimathea and Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette

Today is Good Friday in all of Christendom which is the remembrance of the crucifixion of Jesus Christ. Jesus had been dragged through the streets, carrying his cross, while spectators stood and watched, some jeering, some sorrowful, some merely curious. One bystander actually went up to Jesus to help him lift the cross from his back to carry it for him but he was forced to let Jesus continue his foot journey through Jerusalem to reach the cross at Golgotha whereupon he was bound to the cross by nails to die slowly, agonizingly while his staunch supporters, friends and family, looked on in misery to witness the slow death of their beloved son and teacher.

Years later, centuries in fact, Marie Antoinette likewise was hauled across Paris in a cart before jeering spectators, some again sympathetic, some hating and despising her, and some merely curious, wishing to see the ill-fated queen in her journey through town, resembling a bit that same Jesus who had been dragged through Jerusalem to his death.

Jesus, after spending hours on the cross, finally succumbed, and was taken down, and handled roughly by the soldiers who turned him over to his friends and family. They. cared for him lovingly, and tenderly took him to a cave wherein he was laid out to have angels later dress him for his emergence from the tomb. A rock had been placed upon the entry so that noone could steal him away.

Sadly, Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette, many years later, did not have that same loving touch from their friends and family who could give them proper burial and care. Instead after having been dragged through town,the former queen had to step up onto the platform which held the most horrendous sight in all of Paris, the grand guillotine which would end their lives in a matter of seconds. At least, the French were a bit kinder than the Romans and the Jews who had demanded the death of Jesus instead of Barabas, in that as soon as Queen Marie Antoinette stepped onto the platform, all she had to do was to place her head carefully upon the plate that supported her head so that the huge razor sharp instrument could quickly sever her pretty little head from her body. In an instant, shortly after she apologized for stepping on the foot of the executioner, she was summarily decapitated. The crowd cheered, and her body and head were carelessly and indifferently thrown into a pile where it lay for days before anyone bothered to dispose of it properly.

Jesus lay in his tomb for three days. It was a tomb carefully prepared for him, a cave in a sense, to fulfill his own prophecy that within three days he would be raised from the dead and return to the living.

Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette made no such promises, and so their bodies lay neglected for some time before anyone even tended to them at all.

On the third day, after Jesus had been resuscitated from his temporary death, the tomb appeared to be open as the rock had rolled away. An angel greeted the first onlookers. Jesus appeared to his friends who came to seek him and were so amazed to see him reappear as he looked much the same as he had looked before his dreadful scourging and crucifixion. He had been restored to life by angels who tended to him and so his wounds had mended but remained in sight long enough to show them to his disciple Thomas who had doubted the news of his reappearance.

King Louis XVI and Queen Marie Antoinette remained in dire neglect.

Jesus's story became known amongst his following, and the church today will continue to celebrate the story of His Resurrection this coming Easter Sunday and Christians worldwide will rejoice that Jesus lives. Hallelujah!


King Louis XVI and Queen Marie Antoinette will not be remembered by many since their deaths created a change in the life and government of the newly created republic of France. Yet, thanks to time passing, generations of young French children studying the history of France will possibly realize that just as Jesus had suffered many years ago, being ridiculed as the King of the Jews, the King and Queen of France suffered a similar act that changed the lives of Frenchmen forever.

King Louis XVI and Queen Marie Antoinette were good Catholics who practiced their faith in Jesus so that just as he laid his life down for all of mankind, they were forced to give up their lives for their countrymen. Young Christians, Catholic and Protestants, can take hope in the fact that since the death of the King and Queen, France has recovered sensibility since the madness that besieged them. Unlike Jerusalem today which remains divided, France is a nation now a republic that is at peace with itself and its horrendous past. No, a king and queen will not be restored to France, but Christians in France can enjoy the victory of Christ over death which likewise promises the victory of the king and queen who believed in Jesus themselves.

Thank Heaven that reenactments of the deaths of King Louis XVI and Queen Marie Antoinette are not practiced in France in the manner in which reenactments of Jesus Christ are often practiced in the world today.

The important message of Jesus's death is that through obedience to the Father that dwelled within him he was brought back to life to testify to the truth of the power of the spirit over the flesh. As he had promised, he was raised from the dead three days after his expiring on the cross.

What does all this mean? It means that the spiritual life that is within the temporal body, the physical flesh, survives.

It is a matter of faith. It is a matter of history that these events occurred. The faith is dependent upon the need to know the truth. By thy faith thou art cured, Jesus had taught. By faith alone, the Church, the spiritual followers of Christ have grown and prospered.

It is Good Friday, a day to be remembered. As it happened to Jesus, it would happen again and again throughout time to others...King Louis XVI and Queen Marie Antoinette are amongst the many who later also suffered the same fate.

Life goes on. Live it in faith and in love towards one another...