Random musings

[cardsfansince82]

I wasn't planning on buying one until some lady cut in front of me and about ten other people in line at the gas station to buy hers. I bought one counting on karma to come through.

[Radbird]

I'm waiting until it hits $700M

[IMADreamer]

I'd have to disappear if I won that much money. Disappear in my Lamborghini Aventador.

[jim]

I bought a powerball ticket today. The mild rush of daydreaming about winning 500 million is worth approximately 5 dollars, which is what I spent.

We actually lived this daydream .. a little. Such a bizarre and long story, we thought it was a scam for a while, but essentially it boiled down to an inheritance from a guy that died in New Zealand in 1887 from a relative my wife - who had no idea he existed. For at least a month, the trustee company holding this would not tell us what it was, or how much it was worth. I work with someone who lived in New Zealand and she got our minds running with this idea of land, and you couldn't help but wonder.

Finally got a copy of the will - value at the time of death in 1887 was 458 pounds, 12 schilling and 6 pence or some damn thing. I had to google to find out what it even meant - because it was written with dashes or something. Turns out it's a little bit of money sitting and earning interest for 100 years, it's worth about $90k but my wife only gets 1/15th of that. So, a nice windfall of about $5-6k depending on the cut of the trustee company, but not the retirement size windfall that I dreamt of.

Could right a book on this thing. My wife has met all sorts of relatives she didn't know she had. Right now we haven't collected anything because 2 people that we don't know won't supply their birth certificates, and until they do that nothing happens. I think they think it's a scam, we have sent copies of checks that we rec'd for expenses incurred, the original will, and an email from a gov't agency I contacted them asking them to verify the authenticity of it. My wife has collected a grand total of $181 for expensed incurred in collecting various certificates (birth, death, marriage), and a nice Christmas present of a calendar and DVD on New Zealand from the little old lady genealogist that we have almost befriended.

But for a while we really wondered if it was a giant land trust or something, because the guy apparently was a farmer. Just a few schillings left in a bank for his daughter who never cashed in. No clue why it's just now being resolved, that's a mystery.

[Jocephus]

its so easy to get lost in those "what would i do with X million dollars" daydreams. i imagine i will buy 1 or 2 tickets for this saturday drawing, if i can remember.

[jim]

I've never done it before, but like I said I couldn't help it. For whatever reason they wouldn't tell us for a while what was in the will, so we just had to speculate and the land trust things seemed like a plausible outcome. When we saw the will, and after I deciphered what pounds shillings and pence meant, I plugged it into an inflation calculator and realized we probably would get our Mexico trip paid for, but nothing more.

I tried not to daydream but I would be lying if I didn't.

[Molly]

I'm no longer buying lottery tickets. Some guy in Nigeria is sending me millions!!!

[AWvsCBsteeeerike3]

Last night, little AW went up to Mrs. AW and asked if she wanted to play baseball. She said sure and little AW handed her the bat and goes: I'll pitch, momma, just be sure to watch the ball; clear the hips; and fire the hands, okay. And swing hard.

Hilarious. Glad he's been listening.

[wart57]

I was in a meeting on Friday in a co-workers office. He had some 90's and early 2000's music going I think from Pandora. The Category manager was in the office as well, she is probably in her mid 50's. While we are talking about some new items, the song "99 Problems" came on. It was quiet enough you had to stop to hear it, but loud enough you knew what it was and what they were saying. I chuckled to myself and pretended not to notice, I know she heard it. A few songs later, "She [expletive] hates me" comes on - not the radio edit. Talk about an awkward meeting, but my co-worker just kept going oblivious to the f bombs flying behind him.

[MrSaigon]

Quick exercise:

Does it touch the ground?

Yes?

NOT A HOVERBOARD.