Feeling Lucky

For your perusal, faithful readers, a list of various prizes, contests, and sweepstakes I haven't won:

- 1248 consecutive major lottery prizes
- free gas for a year
- a full month of my credit card purchases
- the 2003 Dufferin-Peel Catholic School Board election
- the Stephen Leacock Medal for Humour
- a Toronto Book Award
- the undying envy of my peers

But perhaps that last one will change with the news of what I have recently won: a necktie worn on television by the CBC's Ian Hanomansing. By calling in once to the climate change-themed radio program Feeling the Heat, I evidently put my name in contention.

I haven't actually received the tie (or the book which made up the rest of the prize - its title escapes me, but I think it related to the environment rather than neckwear), but I am most anxious. What might it look like? Stripes? Paisley? A fish?

Needless to say, your humble scribe can be close to his mailbox for the next few days.