I didn't win the lottery.

[fflo]

Yeah, I bought a ticket while getting gas the other day. Despite being politically opposed to lotteries. I went inside to get warm, and there was the guy, sitting by the machine that has (yes) given me a lottery ticket in the past.

Was it worth a dollar to imagine bills paid & so much left over? That's what you buy, isn't it? I don't see the appeal of instant lotteries. You get maybe 10 seconds of the possible annointing being out there in the air. (Hey, look: I can't spell "anointing." Yet more evidence that I live fairly free of religion.) ("Anoint" apparently was a word in Middle English, hailing from the Anglo-French "enoint," past participle of "enoindre," which in turn came from the Latin "inunguere," which is "in-" + "unguere" [to smear] -- and it's all akin to "ointment.")

What would you do (differently, or additionally, or all-of-a-sudden) if you were suddenly wealthy? After paying off bills and securing housing and taking care of Mom?

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Quit my job (even though I really don't mind it), or at least drastically reduce my hours. 10 or 20 hours per week might be handy just as a way to break up the long stretches of free time and keep me in touch with my sense of time passing. But I think I could find more useful things to do with the rest of my time. Whether the more useful things would be writing fiction, improving my website, painting pictures, starting some brand new political project, or what, I don't know - but I think having more hours to consider those options would be a priority.