As a former lottery winner—you heard me—I know the thrill of realizing you've won. And while my winnings were enough to get me into a new 1986 Toyota Supra, they weren't quite enough to make the kind of life-changing moves a bigger jackpot would've allowed.
I'm hoping that all changes tonight.
Tonight's Powerball drawing is up to $460 million as of this writing, and will probably go higher as it gets closer to it.
Now, as anyone who knows me will tell you, the very last thing I'd ever describe myself as is a team player. But for tonight at least, I'm going to be the best team player ever.
The group of mostly fabulous people I work with—you know who you are—and myself have a lottery pool going for tonight's drawing. It was a $4 buy in, and we managed to pony up enough to buy 63 tickets.
The team player part? I'm rooting for the team. In fact, I may be its biggest cheerleader.
As we all spend the afternoon sitting around contemplating what we'll do with our winnings, I'd like to say it's been great working with all of you. I know there are a few responsible, forward thinking individuals who will, in a fit of common sense and an eye towards the future, squirrel their winnings away in a low interest yielding account somewhere, while they continue to do God's work selling luxury automobiles to people with a FICO score of 750 or higher.
As for me, Harvard University School of Engineering has yet to create a device able to measure exactly how fast I'd be out of here.
So from me to the team, good luck to all of us.
And if for some reason we don't win, the MegaMillions drawing is Friday.
