What will district numbers be? Will the Beaver Dam Unified School District announce that the 2010 budget is $50 million or more? It has been so many years since the last budget was published. — James Wisdom Beaver Dam Editor’s note: The BDUSD budget tops $47 million for this year. The budget is published annually. Strung along by the lottery If anyone played the Wisconsin Lottery last Saturday, did they pick 666 in the Pick 3 game? A few years ago they did come up. Well, I think since that time they did an exorcism on that machine. When I see the numbers that come up, I think it should be set in a freezer or in an oven for a day. Or replace it with the ball machine. Years ago I had a dream of all kinds of lottery tickets hanging on a long string. I told my spouse about the dream and bought some game tickets. I didn’t win a thing. The meaning of that dream was that I was being strung along. — Harold Sack Lowell