The MEGAMILLIONS Dream ...

So today I did something I hardly ever do -- I purchased 5 random MEGAMILLIONS lottery tickets. Hey, the jackpot is 267 million dollars -- that would leave me with a cool $100 million after taxes and accepting the lump sum payment. That's a lot of money (actually, that's an understatement -- that's a shitload of money).

I've read numerous times how wealth changes people. To tell you the truth, I wouldn't change -- but you can bet your ass that I would be globe hopping all over the world until I was dead. Just how much is $100 million? Well, this is how I would handle the money:

First, I'd put 75 million of it in investments that would average at least 8% per year. How much income would that be per year? Six million dollars of interest per year. I'm pretty sure anyone could manage that.

What about the other 25 million?

Ten million goes to friends and family. Five million goes to charities. The other ten million goes to ME so I can burn through it in 3-5 years and get it out of my system. Yes, I would be lighting Cuban cigar with a $100 bill while getting a sponge bath by hot, naked, European women while sipping wine from a nice $400 bottle of Shiraz. I'd spend about 3 to 4 days on a nice island somewhere in the South Pacific and then get on a plane to London. I'd party my ass off in London and then spend the next year flying to as many cities as possible -- San Fransisco, New York, Toyko, Rio, Madrid, Greece, Rome, Venice, etc. Each place, I'd drop at least $50,000 - $100,000 while I was there.

Oh, I can't forget Las Vegas! I'd go back to that city with a half a million dollar bankroll and go to every strip joint, bar, club, casino, musical, show, etc. and just spend two weeks renting out an entire floor of the Wynn and calling all my closest friends and booking 1'st class tickets so they could join me. Yes, I would splurge like I was going to be a dead man the next day.

I'll never understand people who's life goal is to accumulate as much money but never have fun.

Let's see if I win. Ha! The dream is nice -- and for $5, you really can't beat it.