Monthly Archives: October 2017
Running and Spiffing . . .
Although still not quite up to snuff, Jan was getting rig fever, so about 5pm she and I headed out to have dinner at Jason’s Deli right down in Conroe.
Jan just wanted soup and sandwich, in this case a cup of Broccoli Cheese and a quarter Turkey Muffaletta.
I got my usual, a bowl of Southwest Chicken Chili and a small Reuben sandwich.
For a non-beef chili, this one is pretty much the best.
Coming home I stopped off at the Kroger’s for a Powerball lottery ticket. It’s up to $173 million, so I’ll spend a few bucks. I don’t smoke of drink, so I’ve got to waste my money on something. And there’s not a chance that smoking or drinking will make me a millionaire.
Unfortunately I always have to stand in line at the service desk because the machines don’t offer you a choice of cash payout or annual payments, just cash payout.
So if I want annual payments, and I do, I have to get it at the desk. And the reason I want annual payments is that with cash payout I’m giving up $64 million. That’s the difference between the annual payment total of $173 million and the cash payout of $109 million.
And it gets worse as the jackpot rises. In January 2016 there was a Powerball Jackpot of $1.6 BILLION. If you took the cash payout you would only get about $1 billion, giving up 600 million just to get the cash up front.
In the case of tonight’s jackpot, if you won in Texas (no state income tax) and took the 30 annual payments, you would get almost $3.5 million a year after taxes.
While if you took the cash, you would get a one time payout of a little over $65 million after taxes. Now honestly, what can I really do with $65 million that I can’t do with the $3.5 million. Yeah, I could invest it, but then I’d have to worry about it. And more than likely I’d be investing a large part of the 3.5 anyway. I mean, what can I actually spend it on, anyway. Jan and I’ve already said we wouldn’t get a new rig, but just get Beauty a new paint job and spiff her up a bit. Including those new blue window awnings.
On the Mega-Millions front, it looks like they’re finally increasing the cost of a ticket to $2 to keep up with Powerball’s pot sizes. Powerball went to $2 in Oct. 2015 which, along with decreasing the odds of winning, greatly increased pot sizes, leading to the $1.6 billion one I mentioned earlier.
As I always say, “Let’s run the numbers”.
The Word of the Day is: Kafkaesque
Thought for the Day:
“Political Correctness is Tyranny .. with manners.” – Charlton Heston
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Moving On Down . . .
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I decided not to make the Clear Lake trip this morning for a couple of reasons. One, I just didn’t feel like it. And two, we were going to meet up with some friends at the Fish Pond Restaurant about 4, which would have meant that I would have had head back toward Conroe by 2pm, not leaving me a lot of time down there anyway.
And now it looks like I won’t have to worry about the long trips much longer, since, at the recommendation of some friends, we found an opening at the Petticoat Junction RV Park down in the Santa Fe area, and we’ll be moving down that way this coming Thursday.
This means that I will only have a 15 mile drive to work instead of a 70 mile one. Very Nice!
And a lot less wear and tear on the truck. It already has 266K+ miles on it, and another 83,000 miles being drug around the RV.
By the time 3pm rolled around, Jan decided she just didn’t feel like getting out and about, so I contacted Debi Hurlburt to let her know we weren’t going to make it.
Then about 5pm I drove over to Raising Cane’s in Conroe to pick up some dinner. We each got the 6 piece Caniac Combo, which will give us two meals each. Really good.
A number of you commented that you took advantage of the La Crosse Technology Weather Station sale I mentioned yesterday. Glad it worked out for you.
The Word of the Day is: Perlocutionary
Thought for the Day:
“Individuality is fine as long as we all do it together.” – Frank Burns, Maj., 4077th MASH , aka Ferret Face
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