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March 01, 2007
Bought a lotto ticket
So, I have decided that I need to win the lottery, and bought a ticket today. I think the pot was like 200+ million dollars. I have decided to make my first act of being a millionaire (provided I win), purchasing a tricked out Apple Mac Pro for Zoso with dual 30" monitors. I'm not sure where she will keep this beast of a machine, but hey, that's a great problem to have. Next I will purchase a swank New Mac Pro for myself (these set-ups are worth $19,000 per computer... so yes, I would have to win the lotto to do this.) Then I would buy myself a house and a new car, but not until I had a beautiful new Mac Pro. I think I would add a rack of XSERVE's with RAID storage to it as well so that I didn't have to wait but milliseconds to render a full length HD movie and store hundreds of them just for the hell of it.
What kind of car you ask? Well, I'm actually good with a Hybrid Nissan Altima. It's a $32,000 car, which is pocket change for somebody with a quarter of a billion dollars, but I've always loved my Nissans, and the Altima is an awesome car!
What kind of house? I have a few simple rules:
1) Must have pool.
2) I will need quarters for my live-in chef, maid, and an extension of my bedroom for my poolboy = )
3) I want it to be wired from end to end with T3 lines and voice controlled temperature controls.
4) There will be no fireplaces.
5) I want a trampoline and a big yard to put my Siberian Husky (which I don't have yet) in.
Then I would get the Apartment in Downtown Seattle. Which will pretty much be a chic display of modern living.
Then I will build J's recreation center and fill it with Nintendo Wii's and iMacs for less fortunate children.
Then I will have to do something about all of this hunger and starvation in the world, but not before I have a Starbucks installed in my apartment in Seattle.
Posted by Decemberice at March 1, 2007 07:25 PM
Comments
Hey, hook a brother up! I mean, with a quarter of a billion dollars, it'd be chump change.
Seriously, I could use one of those houses (though you can keep the second pool boy for yourself). :)
- Jeff
Posted by: Jeff at March 1, 2007 08:21 PM
See, there you go, we both get something out of it. You get a house, and I get another poolboy... it's decided, if I win the whole pot I shall buy you a house, if I win a significant portion I'll hook you up with on of the MacPros.
Posted by: J at March 1, 2007 08:36 PM
With two poolboys, perhaps it wouldn't be wise to invite Katy over...bad things would happen. But I totally hope you win because then I could say I know a multi millionaire...and also I could whine at you that since you don't have to work anymore if you don't want to, you have spare time to be my illustrator, and you know I'm an awefully good whiner!
Posted by: Ashley at March 3, 2007 02:34 AM
So, If I won millions of dollars, you and Katy wouldn't need to work either. We could live in the ginormous house like the golden girls and hire maids and cooks to attend to us all the time. Our biggest concern would be if Sanyu was eating today.
Posted by: J at March 3, 2007 09:53 AM
What about the batcave with the helipad?
Posted by: Zoso at March 3, 2007 08:22 PM
Quyen and his coworkers have been going in together on multiple tickets the last few times.
Today we did a scratch ticket and won $4. It's a start in the right direction.
I would forgo the "chic" Seattle apartment though. Given that an "affordable but nice" apartment goes for $150 to $100k for 300 sq ft...you'd have to give up a lot of dough for anything remotely "chic". Not to mention parking costs for your cars!
I suggest buying a sizable lake front mansion (which would cost about as much), customize your kitchen to look like a Starbucks and hire a couple baristas.
Posted by: Sarah at March 4, 2007 11:32 AM
I guess you gave up the idea of building a pirate ship, and living on it although I still think that would be badass!
Posted by: Austin at March 8, 2007 10:31 AM