Snorkel Souvenir

While snorkeling in Amed (East Bali) on my holiday, I broke the clip that keeps my snorkel and mask joined at the strap. We were visiting a shipwreck site, just off the beach... so of course there was a fellow with a small snorkel hire business just on the beach.

I asked how much to hire a mask and snorkel.
He asked me what was wrong with mine?
I showed him my broken clip.
He gave me this to replace it:

It's a makeshift snorkel clip from an old inner-tube.

In case you're wondering, it works like this:

Losers Are Winners

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I don't gamble and I'm a glass-half-full kinda person.

Over the last couple of days I have had to reassess those beliefs:
Yesterday at work, along with each of my team mates, I threw in five bucks for a group ticket in last night's 70 Million Lotto Draw.
This morning a colleague delivered the good news. A few of our numbers were lucky and, although not instant millionaires, a small win is still a win! Yay, right?

In fact, we had 'won' less than the cost of the ticket.
Yes, much better than a complete loss - but, mathematically speaking, it is clearly still a loss. No two ways about it. So on review:

I generally don't gamble and
mostly I'm a glass-half-full kinda person.

Lady Luck

Fortuna, called Tyche by the Greeks, is the goddess of fortune.
She represents more than just good fortune:

• With a rudder, she symbolises the divine guide, steering fate;
  
• With a ball or the wheel of time, she is a reminder that fortune, good or bad, never lasts;
• With the cornucopia also known as Plutus, or the horn of Amalthea, she represents the plentiful gifts of fortune.

I still haven't figured out what the stem in her hand (in this picture) is for though. Maybe just to scratch her own back from time to time (those wings are bound to tickle).