As of Friday last, the Powerball jackpot was at $1.6 billion dollars. According to the people in the know about stuff like that, this will be a Powerball record setter. People are lined up at every last gas station, 7-11, Quicky Mart, kiosks that cater to such insanity, and the lines will last until the final bell at which time the Powerball numbers will be drawn. A way out here in the Mojave, that will be 8:00 p.m. PDT. Pacific Daylight Time for those unaware of time zones and how those zones are divided amongst our gloriously greedy Union. I'm not certain that I'd stand in a long ass line and wait for my turn at the cashier/lotto ticket clerk counter. People tend to get a mite unruly these days and especially so when there's $1.6 billion dollars at stake. A winner of that kind of cash will suddenly discover friends and relatives the winner was not aware of ever having met or known. Hands out and sniveling stories of horror and misfortune to beat the band. No thanks. I'd rather not ever have to deal with that manner of bullshit. You would of course have to go underground until about the almost last day to cash in your winning lotto ticket and even then there would be an overwhelming 'press' presence to flash you blind with lighting and make your head spin with their questions. No thanks for reals. I do believe that a winning lotto numbers ticket holder has about six months to cash in a winning ticket. If the jackpot goes unclaimed, the jackpot grows ad infinitum. Figures. So, the chances of actually winning a Powerball jackpot of $1.6 billion dollars are infinitesimally small and the odds are about 1 in 275 million against. Winning the jackpot. You've a far better chance of winning a substantial IRS tax refund with NO chance of getting prosecuted by the IRS for having made an accounting error. I do hope that a winner of the jackpot is a little old lady living out in boondocks America somewhere with her 17 cats. I would advise any little old lady that turns up the winning ticket to get a reliable and trustworthy lawyer. She would definitely need a good one. I would also hope that little old lady would shy away from the lawyers advertising on television with their 'one call that's all' bullshit. Lawyers do tend to be a mite greasy. Now for our holy and sabbatical machine art.
vista II -
parade of elephants -
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hermitage -
there were about 6,000 foreigners pulled into our little truck stop in the Mojave Desert to head back up the road a mite to be able to purchase lotto tickets. The lottery isn't legal in Nevada. You can gamble yourself into the poor house but you can't buy a lotto ticket. I'm alright with that on account of I don't gamble and not anymore. I did once but that was a long time ago. 😶
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