My Final "30 Something" Fifth Thursday

Today is indeed the last Fifth Thursday before I leave my 30s behind.  The day is half over and I can't point to any noteworthy events.  I think I'm going to walk to the store after work and buy some lottery tickets since the foundation of this blog is a theory that this is my lucky day (or my unlucky day but let's be positive).  I'm going to spend exactly $5 and buy one Powerball, one Mega Millions, one Lotto, one Hit 5, and one Match 4.  I'm sure the person who rings me up will think I've got a screw loose but my odds of winning are actually better that way.  I go from no chance at winning anything to a long shot at five different games.  Contrast that to spending all $5 on one game... those five chance are effectively the same long shot as one chance but I only get to play once.  This is why I only ever spend $1 on lottery tickets when I buy them... going from zero chance to some chance is the only time your odds increase significantly.

UPDATE 6/30 @8PM
So I found that the Match 4 tickets actually cost $2.  I could have said I didn't want it and gotten a Daily Game ticket instead but since the the ticket was already printed I decided not to risk giving up a ticket that could already be a winner.  I figured having 5 tickets was the most important part to stay true to my lucky number.  Then, on my walk back, I found exactly 5 pennies laying in the street... hopefully 5 lucky pennies, but we shall see.

UPDATE 7/1 @8AM
Match 4 numbers... my ticket: 02-05-11-19... drawn: 14-15-18-23...
Result: not winning :(

UPDATE 7/2 @10AM
Mega Millions numbers... my ticket: 06-07-20-35-48 13... drawn: 12-17-30-35-47 26...
Result: matched one number but that's still not winning :(

UPDATE 7/3 @11AM
Hit 5 numbers... my ticket: 05-08-12-18-39... drawn: 01-14-27-30-31...
Lotto numbers... my ticket: 05-14-20-27-41-48 and 11-18-34-36-40-42... drawn: 07-10-24-26-41-44...
Powerball numbers... my ticket: 15-19-25-44-55 17... drawn: 01-11-18-29-51 32...
Result: seriously not winning :(

The Perfect Woman

It seems that every few months Shakira releases a new video and I am reminded why she is the perfect woman.  She can sing, she can dance, she's smart, she's a humanitarian, and she's naturally beautiful. I don't understand half of what she's singing but that's not important.  I think "rabiosa" means "rabid" and "bite me en la boca" translates to "bite me in the mouth"... need I say more?  I'm even digging the new short dark hair :)



So Shakira's greatest hits is officially my most wanted and it would have a track listing something like this:

1. Whenever, Wherever
2. Underneath Your Clothes
3. La Tortura
4. Don't Bother
5. Hips Don't Lie
6. Beautiful Liar
7. She Wolf
8. Did it Again
9. Give it Up To Me
10. Gypsy
11. Waka Waka (This Time for Africa)
12. Loca
13. Sale el Sol
14. Rabiosa

Turkey, Bacon, other stuff and some Avocado (paste)

It's been a while since I posted anything to the old blog so I decided I would write about my dinner tonight.  A few days ago I saw an article in the USA Today which was soon followed by a television blitz all about Subway offering their Turkey & Bacon Avocado sandwich again.  I actually was going to try one of them several months ago but found they weren't on the menu by the time I got around to it.  So now that they're most definitely on the menu I walked to the Subway near my house and ordered a footlong—total cost just under $10 with tax.

 

What I quickly learned was that avocados must be as valuable as gold because rather than put a couple of healthy slices on my sandwich, the Sandwich Artist spread a very thin layer of avocado paste on one half of my sandwich.  I'm not kidding when I say that there ended up being more of every other item I requested on the sandwich than there was avocado.

The sandwich was pretty good but definitely not worth $10.  I think the last time I was at Costco they were selling bags of 6 avocados for a few dollars less than what I paid for my entire sandwich... perhaps someone needs to clue-in Subway that they can either be a lot more generous with the 'cado or they can stop charging so damn much for it.