If you Won the Lottery

[The Good Michael]

okay. this is easy. design and build a house. preferably on a river. put 500,000 in growth stock mutual funds to pay for books for the rest of my life. the rest goes towards saving the Kakapo.

Seems to me that you aren't leaving much for the Kakapo.

Mike

[Errata]

Seems to me that you aren't leaving much for the Kakapo.

Mike

It all depends on the size of the prize. I was basing it off the ridiculous powerball fortunes. The 35 million dollar ones or something. I figure everything I want requires less than 2 million, which leaves 33 million for the Kakapo.

[The Good Michael]

So, you're hoping for the big one. I'd just like a decent pizza these days.

Mike

[DVV]

105 millions euros next Friday.

Or let's say, 12 millions pizza.

[Archaic]

I have an agreement with a friend that whichever of us wins the lottery first will take the other to see Egypt, Pompeii, and the ancient ruins near Santorini in the Greek Isles.

If I won the lottery I would also help my friends who have serious medical conditions get the care and treatment they need to hopefully restore their health.

I would love to open a large ranch devoted to Animal Rescue; primarily horses, but also dogs, cats, burros, and other abused critters.

I would train as many of the dogs and cats as possible to be Companion Animals for the Elderly and the Disabled, and once they were healthy, gentle and ready to go to a new loving home I would match them up with prospective individuals and give them away.

I would use my gentlest and most affectionate animals to do Animal-Assisted Therapy for the mentally and physically disabled, children who had suffered abuse, and elderly people with Alzheimer's Disease, which my own father suffered from. My Therapy Animals would definitely include my German Shepherd dog and the two horses I own now, because I saw how wonderful and loving they were with my Dad.

I would donate the rest of the money to children's charities such as World Vision and other worthy causes.

Think I'll write myself a memo to buy a lottery ticket.

Best regards,
Archaic

[DVV]

Santorini in the Greek Isles.

Archaic

Spent a great time there when young. I rend a mule to go to the beach and came back to the village in the evening. It was so fine...I even forgot the German tourists.

Ooooh, tezeta !

[Archaic]

Hi David.

There's a story that some of the ruins in the vicinity of Santorini (either Ancient Thera or Knossos, I forget) were discovered because a man was riding a donkey and the animal's hoof went through the soft volcanic debris, exposing the ancient site.

Speaking of tezeta, I recently had an Ethiopian dinner with a friend in Seattle. There were 3 Ethiopian restaurants on the same short block near Seattle University, 2 directly opposite one another. We had a HUGE delicious spicy meal served on injera while watching Ethiopian rap videos!
(I found them fascinating. It was a cross between Ethiopian folk-music & dance and Gangsta Rap! )

There was a small bar, which surprised us, and my friend wanted to order a cocktail. I suggested she order a very simple one, not a Rob Roy (her usual, which confuses many bartenders). She ordered a Vodka Martini. The waitress listened carefully and nodded. I said to my friend "I bet you get a plain shot glass of vodka." I was wrong- she got a plain water-glass containing a couple of shots of straight vodka- no olive even, just straight up! We laughed. When we left we were so stuffed we could barely walk. We went to the special evening showing of the Picasso Exhibit at the Seattle Art Museum in a total food-coma. We had to sit down on a bench and rest. We wished they had a nap-room.

We want to go back to that restaurant soon, the food was so yummy. But we decided it would be best to have no plans for afterward...except maybe a nap.

Seulement un amour,
Archaic

[DVV]

Just for you Bunny...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F0lVk_pkbsE&feature=related

[Archaic]

Wow, Ethiopian Jazz! Thanks David, I enjoyed it.

I tried to find an Ethiopian rap video like I saw at the restaurant, but all the videos on YouTube were much softer & more pop-like rap. In the ones I saw the performers were doing all the hand-gestures and poses associated with Gangsta Rappers, with a bunch of Ethiopian folk-dancing thrown in.

How do you say "Yo, what's up?" in Amharic?

Asta la vista baby,
Archaic

[corey123]

I would say I would pay for college

[mariab]

Not much would change in my life. I would feel a bit more secure against incoming hard times. I would invest some of the money into several of our research projects in musicology, I would become a casebook supporter, and I'd frequently take the Eurostar from Paris to London, to try to research the bank records of some persons of interest (like Piòtr Rachkovsky, William Wess, Joseph Aarons, etc.).

[DVV]

How do you say "Yo, what's up?" in Amharic?

Archaic

Hi Bunny,

thank God, there's no translation for "yo!" !!

"What's up ?" would be : "Indyät näw ?" (pronounce : "indiet no")

Ciao ciao, yäné qonjo !

[sleekviper]

Other- I would buy Jacks knife. Be about on the same level; finding a winning lottery ticket, finding the knife.

[Celesta]

Hi David.

There's a story that some of the ruins in the vicinity of Santorini (either Ancient Thera or Knossos, I forget) were discovered because a man was riding a donkey and the animal's hoof went through the soft volcanic debris, exposing the ancient site.
Seulement un amour,
Archaic

Hey, Bun. The donkey was Santorini. The Cretans pretty much knew where Knossos was all along.

[sdreid]

Other - Continue to live my life as now except with a bigger house farther south. I don't work now and I'll probably have a bigger house farther south in a few years so maybe I already won de facto.