There was a Powerball drawing last night with an estimated jackpot of 400 gagillian zillion dollars.  I once heard state (in this case, multi-state) lotteries described as a tax on the stupid.  Well, I paid that tax after work yesterday.  I bought 10 tickets.

I completely forgot about it until a few minutes ago, so I checked my numbers.  Of the 10 tickets, five had exactly one of the winning numbers.  I could be wrong, but I think that’s the best result I’ve ever had!  WOOHOO!  I lost, but by less than I usually lose by!  Nice!  Each loss brings us that much closer to the inevitable lottery jackpot.  I can feel it!

I mentioned yesterday that I had to get up super early to cover something at work.  The end result was that I went to bed super early last night.  I wanted to listen to the Red Sox game while I read myself to sleep (still reading Tony Iommi’s Iron Man.  I am nearing the end of the Dio years) but as the game was about to start I put the book away and laid down with my headphones still on.  I’ll just lay here and relax while I listen, thinks me.  Nope.  I was out like a light before the first pitch.  I woke up a couple of times with an ear pod (magically) still in place.  I would hear the score and then fall back to sleep.

That changed when I woke up in the top of the ninth with the Sox down 5-4 and a runner on first.  I stayed conscious for that.  Then Drew comes up with two on and BOOM the Sox are up 7-5.  Even on the other short wake ups, when I would hear that they were losing, I knew that there was no way Houston was beating us again.  I didn’t fall asleep again until after the game was over.

There is something about this year’s team.  They shouldn’t be as good as they are, given the horros of last season, but they just keep winning.  If nothing else, it’s fun to watch.  Hell, they’ve already won more games than last year!  Go Red Sox

 Changing the subject again, I just cooked my telecommuting lunch on the grill in the back yard. The hamburger was frozen so I walked around the edge of the woods and took two pics with Oggl.

You are utterly blown away, I can tell.

In closing, my wife is stressing out about something today. I have full confidence that she is stressing out about nothing. She is just so incredible that she’s going to kick the holy hell out of that which bugs her. I know it. You all know it. She knows it too, deep down. She’s just awesome. Simple as that. Still, if you can spare some positive energy of the calm and relaxing sort, I am sure she’d love a little extra.

I love you like crazy, Jennifer. You are simply amazing.