I can't decide if it would be fun or not to speculate about all of the things I'd do with the Powerball jackpot. (Note that I have never bought a lottery ticket.)
I'd pay off house loans for my family members. I'd buy a beach house somewhere. I'd figure out if there was any amount of money I could spend to meet Stephen Sondheim. I'd go to Broadway shows frequently, so I guess I'd need a place in New York.
I'd hire a personal chef and shopper. (And probably personal security.)
I'd take a long luxurious cruise around the world (paying for internet access onboard the whole time). I'd pay whatever amount of money was necessary to get out of a relationship with Comcast and get my internet from somewhere else.
I'd give some money to the cons I usually attend and to AO3. I'd fund the board forever. I'd probably pay someone money to develop the best fandom-centric social media site.
Charities: food banks, women's shelters, performing arts organizations, higher ed funding in Louisiana, cancer research, animal shelters.
Hilariously, my mother has decided she wouldn't want to win THAT much money, so is not buying a ticket. NB: I don't know that she's ever bought a lottery ticket.
That almost makes sense to me? Almost. (Jesse's mom, that is. Dana's intentions re: lottery winnings I have no reservations about)
I kinda want to buy a ticket but I'm still not sure how to do it casually - I made a special trip to a convenience store last time I bought one and convenience stores are, ironically, not very convenient for me to get to. Can I just ask the register person at the grocery store for a Powerball ticket? I have no idea.
So, I'm liking Blackstar but it hurts to listen to it. As expected.
At the grocery store I think you would have to go to the customer service desk. Gas stations are probably the easiest though.
I liked the LA Times simulator about your odds of wining at Powerball: [link]
Dana's list is pretty close to my list. Travel, travel, travel. I want to fill up a passport and need a new one just cause I ran out of pages.
I actually bought a ticket for the last drawing only because I ended up in a gas station convenience store, the guy in line ahead of me was talking about it, and it was convenient. Unless the "stars align" before the next drawing, I doubt it will happen again. Not that I even know when the drawing are.
My fever is at bay with Aleve but if I forget to take it I lose my ability to thermoregulate. But I feel fine otherwise. Well, exhausted but I'm not sniffly, I don't have sinus pain, or any other flu symptoms. I'm slowly working on putting holiday decorations away. I started last week before this hit and then everything has just sat.
Oh, crap, I never did renew my passport, I think it expired last month. Dammit.
My dad always gets a Powerball ticket, and he plans to buy a private island when he wins. I told him the current jackpot is so big he can buy SEVERAL private islands.
The stupid, it burns . . .
The woman I was talking to called over her son, who knows about computers. He needed to email a file to me, but the email program wouldn't accept my address. It finally dawned on me what I was hearing him read the address as. "Did you put the @ sign in?" "You didn't tell me to put the @ sign in!" I did, but he kept talking over me so may not have heard it, but I broke professionalism and said, "It's an email address, they always have @ signs in them."
It went downhill from there.
