What If I Won All That Money?

540,000,000.00.  Man, that is a lot of money.  Is it possible to have too much money?  If there is then I think that number is it.  Too much money.  Now I never buy lottery tickets for a couple of reasons.  1. There’s always a chance that you end up on your local news buying a ticket and well have you seen the people that they film and interview?  They don’t need a lottery ticket, they need a bath.  2.  You are throwing your money away.  Way away.  Far far away.  No thanks.

But…

If I did buy a ticket and it just so happened to be the winning 540 million dollar ticket, what would I do with the money?

1.  Wet myself.

2.  Hire someone to buy me new pants.

3.  Fire my pants person because I don’t want to be that type of millionaire.

4.  Be boring and pay off debt like the house and car. 

5.  Keep the house to store stuff that you always need but never had.  Like batteries.  A house full of batteries.

6.  Buy a new house that I can grow into.  I’m thinking I need a moat.

7.  Yeah, I’d buy a castle.

8.  Give the parents a ridiculous amount of money.  Because, well they deserve it.

9.  Pay debt of family members but the line will be drawn at immediate family.  After that, the line gets blurry.

10.  I’d buy the LA Lakers just to bankrupt and dissolve the LA Lakers.

11.  Make Thursdays “Ferrari Thursdays” and Tuesdays will be “Yeah, I Use My Jet to Go Get Something To Eat, What?”

12.  Feed a helluva lot of homeless people.  For a long time.

13.  Buy Girl something.  Probably a lot of things.  Or all things Coach probably.  Addictions are funny.

14.  Go overseas somewhere.  Buy stuff I can sell in a future garage sale.  You gotta spend money to make money. 

15.  Put a bunch of thousand dollar bundles in random mailboxes.

16.  Pay the amount necessary to make Steve Carell come back to The Office.

17.  Pay whoever I need to pay to get the Kardashians off the air and out of professional sports.

18.  Go to random restaurants at their busiest times and pay for everyone in there.  I will also be wearing a cape.

19.  Always keep 10 grand in my pocket because you never know when you need 10 grand.  Happens all the time and I’m sick of looking foolish.

20.  Invest.  If I have to.

Okay so maybe I am that type of millionaire.  Now I need to hire someone to press publish for me.

A Life Less Blogging

I used to be one of you.

It’s pretty good odds that most who read blogs are also ones that write them so yes, I used to do that.  I did a few things here.  I had my own site of course and also helped start up a couple of other sites that had me pretty busy.  It was fun for a long time.

Then it was like going 70mph and hitting a brick wall.

Nothing was flowing anymore.  The writing felt like a chore. The more I tried to “reinvent” myself and start over, the worse it became.  The less I felt like myself.

No one can write well when they aren’t being themselves.  It just can’t happen.

There are so many writers out there that I admire and who I look up to thinking “This is they way you do it, this is how you do it right”.  But the thing is that it’s their right way.  It’s what makes it right, for them.

I’m starting over.  Completely.  I’m not just doing my tired “changing my blog focus” or simply changing how the blog looks.  I’m not trying to become a version of someone I admire or trying to find the easy way for a successful blog.  That stuff will drive you insane and most of the time, you fall short.  I need to remember that a blog can be funny.  It can be serious.  It can also just as brilliantly be dumb and a total time-suck.

I hope to lose some of the hesitance I had when trying to write. The good thing is that there’s more things in the real life that now have my attention.   More to write about.  Possibly. There’s the dog.  And the girl.  And the future.  There’s always the future.

So here it is.  Stripped down to a basic blog.  Not even getting the official domain name yet.  Maybe at some point.  I need to get back to how I started.  I need to remember building something from the ground up.

A lot has happened in the past year.  Some amazing things that should fill up some of these early pages. 

There’s also some things I will never write about because it deserved to end when it did.  Period.

I made the mistake of looking at each “blog focus” as a new start.  Funny thing is that I don’t really feel I ever did take a new start.  I’ve just evolved into where I am now.  This isn’t a new version of the previous 3 years.  It’s simply the start of something without a past.  The ties have been cut and I’m simply beginning to put my left in front of my right again.

And for the first time in quite a long time, it makes sense.