I bought two Powerball tickets last night because the prize is 35 million, which I've decided is my perfect number.

The other day I was depressed because I was fighting with my brother and he had threatened to cut me off (stop talking to me). I have often wished I could do that myself and I wished it then, that I could just leave the country and put a message on my phone that said I was out of the country and not answer any emails from them. When I made that wish, the amount I wanted was sixty thousand dollars a month. Roughly, that was $600k a year, which was 6 million in ten years and 18 million in 30 years. Since taxes will take roughly half, I would have to win 36 million to actually take that home. Well, the prize is 35 and that's pretty damn close.

In other news, there was a story on Yahoo about a guy that's won two scratch-off prizes for a million or more. He says in the article that he had a dream that he was going to receive a bunch of money and he believed it. After he had won his first prize (of $1 million), he still "felt" like he hadn't received all the money he believed was coming to him. Lo and behold, he wins again, this time for $2 million.

What they didn't say in the story was how much the scratch-offs cost and how many or how often he bought them. Most scratch-offs for that much cost between $20-$50 and buying those every week (or multiples therein) would be a serious outlay.