It is a sad day. I didn't win the Mega Millions Lottery. All that hard work and money invested and nothing. I had it already spent in my head. Buy a house, buy Raina a new car, maybe a boat, or a major stake in the Guggenheim investment of the Dodgers. Maybe I could just buy the parking lots since they are up for bargaining. A group of guys from work and I pooled our money together to buy seventy five chances at winning. We made sure we covered all the mega number opportunities, almost twice over. It seemed like we got all the numbers surrounding, but not the actual numbers. The math geek inside of me tried to figure out any angle that might help, like the possibility of buying every possible combination. Figuring out if we bought every combination at a price of one dollar each if the winnings would off set your loss enough to make it worth it. Initially it looks like a good idea when the payout is $640 million as it was today. Only problem is you take twenty five percent off the top and then lose more if you take a lump sum. Then the possibility of having to share it would make it even less. Then there is the problem of filling out all those tickets. It would take you a lifetime to fill them all out. Maybe not that long, but you get the idea. The drawing would be done before I could get one percent done.
All this money draws people out of the wood works. I think I read that the lottery was raking in over a billion dollars just for this drawing. That is a ton of money. I have to start my own gambling ring. That is where the money is at. Maybe my next business proposal should be a casino. That is the key. Anyone want in?
I was supposed to hang out with Brandon tonight, maybe go see that Acts of Valor movie. That all changed when Brooke's plans were canceled. The plan was that Brooke was going out with some friends, so Brandon and I could do something manly. Well, it ended up being a couples night, with Raina and I and Brooke and Brandon. We went to have Peruvian food for dinner and promptly made a stop at Target on the way back. The thought was to pick up a new board game or something. We found a Scrabble card game to try out. If you have ever played Monopoly Deal, you might think it was a similar concept. If you haven't played Monopoly Deal, you should definitely try it out. It is a blast to play. The Scrabble game was a little wild, especially with a few of us who tend to bend the rules. At least as much as allowable. It became pretty hectic, but made for some great laughs, especially when Brandon started to make up his own words, thinking he could get one past us. It made Brooke have to focus on watching what Brandon was doing, forcing her to fall behind and not getting to win many of the games. It seamed to be every ten seconds she was calling Brandon out on something. If your ever playing a game with Brandon, watch him like a hawk. He will try to get one over on you any chance he gets.
It ended up being a lot of fun hanging with Brooke and Brandon. We don't get to spend as much time with them as you would think. So it is great when we get the chance to.
This Day In History: 1981
U.S. president Ronald W. Reagan is shot in the chest outside a Washington, D.C., hotel by a deranged drifter named John Hinckley Jr. Reagan, apparently unaware that he had been shot, was shoved into his limousine by a Secret Service agent and rushed to a hospital.
Born This Day: 1853
Vincent Van Gogh - Dutch painter
"Laughter is wine for the soul..."
-Sean O'Casey
I can't believe the winner isn't amongst all those tickets.
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