Yet Another $1B+ Lottery Jackpot

 The Mega Millions jackpot climbed to an absurd $1.25 billion. Yet another post about how when i win "i'm going to try and take over the world" (not really, most of the world would be useless to me). Is it time to crank that Calloway song again ("I Wanna Be Rich")?

A $1.25 billion early birthday present would be nice. Who is anybody kidding, i (and most people) would take the $625 million cash option. i assume nobody will win until Tuesday but might as well buy the dream for a couple of days.

i still wish the price of a ticket and odds would be halved.

Why am i buying a lottery ticket when there is a very real chance of a coming financial crisis?  i'm kind of betting against my expectations. But, winning would be cool. i'm sure if i did actually win it would be like my spirit cartoon character Wile E. Coyote catching the Road Runner. Congratulations, you won the lottery - now what (winning could create different kinds of problems). Either that or it would turn out Alanis Morisette "Ironic". 

102 Days Until Halloween

Assuming the world exists (or at least my "world"), Halloween will be coming in 102 more days. Still way too far away.

i like Fall. i like Winter. Summer is an abomination that i cannot stand. There is no benefit to the miserable season known as summer. Once you get out of school, summer has no positives. It is too hot, too sunny. too bright (i hate natural sunlight), and too miserable.

Bring back good weather - cool, overcast and drizzly/rainy. 

Well, it's a $1 Billion jackpot... again.

It is that time again when the multi-state lottery jackpot goes up to $1 Billion again (last time around January 13th, 2023, a Mega Millions ticket on Friday the 13th). Mega Millions isn't that far behind at $720 million.

Since i'm told a time machine is not feasible (or possible) - i'll go with the standard: house and some fun stuff. i could go for an early large monetary b-day present.

i long for the simpler days when the jackpot would have been a couple hundred million dollars. i miss the days of the $1 ticket, twice a week. Lower payouts, but better odds - i'd take that trade.

If only i could go back in time and win $20+ million at 22. Life would have had so many more possibilities. Afterall, just "love" is never enough for a modern relationship. 

Even if i did win today, would i even have enough time to spend it (not the level of "fun" i could have had when i was younger)?

Fossil Rock Rocks

Did you ever have one of those people growing up who would listen to "classic rock" or '60s rock and ridicule just a little bit for that? i did, it was a guy who gave me rides to a morning church thing when i was in high school (for the Mormons out there, seminary - i hated waking up early for that, especially since i didn't believe in god). Now i kind of envied the era he grew up in. i remember he used to wear 70s style green leisure suits at one point.

Once you start to get older than sitcom parents, you know what just don't think of it - it is far too horrible.

Today i find myself listening to the radio on an Echo Dot (because that's probably the only way i can get a signal). Yeah 1980s Weekend! Wait, is the awesome music from the 80s to early 90s now considered "fossil rock"? Am i no better than Al Bundy? No that can't be so (but it is). 

If it is that is more like Cretaceous Period rock, not Triassic Period rock he listened to. i wish like Johnny Hates Jazz said, i could "Turn back the clock, bring the wheels of time to a stop, back to the days, when life was so much better".

Come on, the Kraken was released in 2020

 

Not a fan of the horkety, but here goes.... What does a mythological Scandanavian creature have to do with ice hockey?  You got me there. What's next an arena that "pledges" something to the climate - like that is even possible.  

This is a 2020 Canada Creatures of the North series (2 so far) silver coin of a Kraken. Kind of a cool coin. Should have cropped this borrowed photo image. For silver coins, the Canadian mint is one of the best (better than the US), the main series (Maple Leaf) is good but boring.

Just Intimating 2: Fail Hard

The picture below is one of my greatest building block shames.  It is the rare set that i will never finish.

It is a FOCO BRXLZ Miniature Block replica of Safeco Field (after ordered it was relabeled as T-Mobile Park).  This was an Xmas present from Santa.  

Why won't i ever finish it, you probably didn't ask?  The pieces are tiny, the directions are horrible (and literally messed with my eyes), colors were hard to differentiate, and the roof doesn't fit well. This is as close as i will ever get to finishing it.  i never had any intention of putting on the stickers. This is the 2nd and last time i tried building this.

i actually used a lighted magnifying glass to see these. Compared to LEGO or Mega Construx instructions, these are horrible.  It is basically a bunch of levels built on top of each other, the first level was kind of hard, trying to count out where things should be. The completed levels (kind of greyed out on the instructions) messed with my eyes (making things kind of blur) - then there were subtle differences between some greyed out section in the directions and similar colored pieces. Not sure the roof pieces are the right color. Also, one of the scoreboards wouldn't stay together and was missing a couple of pieces.

History of the World Part II: What a Trainwreck

Before this series hit, i had a pretty good idea it was going to be bad (with some of those involved).  It exceeded my expectations (in how terrible it was). 

Unlike the movie, there was little cohesion in the episodes - usually jumping between bad serial sketches (that probably should have been one-offs). There was no Orson Wells style narration holding things together. Mel Brooks should not have tarnished his reputation with this abomination. 

So, what didn't i like about this unfunny show (Hulu - the first show i ever actually disliked there)?