What will you do when you win $6oo or 700 million in the Powerball?

Not seeing the best sites in any country while there is a loss of a good opportunity. Meeting the people, eating their food and drinking their drink is all part of the fun. I don't understand some people who travel to foreign countries, and want to eat at McDonalds, Pizza Hut, or western foods available at home. The only thing American I want may be an Americano on occasion.

Nemme, I do the round, caffe latte, cappuccino, macchiato, espresso, per favore. And let me add my own sugar, don't just assume (a famous place in Rome did that to me and I rebelled..

Agree with your view, as I think you know from another thread.

I remember drinking a lot of cappuccino in Germany at train stations. BTW, Berlin is one of my favorite cities in Germany, because I have seen the transformation from a totally destructed city to a beautiful metropolis.

I've been reading a lot about Berlin lately.

Well, they had the drawing and we didn't have the right numbers. Maybe next week.

When I checked the numbers, it read 945 million and under that: rollover. The next drawing will make me so rich I can buy congress for myself.

At the first opportunity, go see a lawyer in one of the best firms in Dallas. Hire personal security guards for my wife and I and each of my kids. Change my telephone numbers. Get a po box and have all my mail delivered to it. Make arrangements for my wife and I to disappear for about a month and then and only then go claim the prize.

After that, set up trusts for all the family, friends and charities I plan to give 50.01% of my winnings to.

Take all but $26 million and invest half of it in the US government, and the other half in slighty more risky, but still conservative investments.

After we return from seclusion, throw a huge costume party in Denver or Seattle for family and friends, paying their travel and costume costs. (Budget - $1 million)

Spend up to $15 million on two houses. One in some place for the winter months (Probably SC low country) and another for the rest of year on a lake, maybe in the mountains.

What's left gets split between me and my wife and we will blow it on whatever we want. I'll be buying a Bentley Continental GT V8 S Convertable a Porche 911 Turbo S, a Morgan Plus 8 and classic, fully restored '63 Jaguar XKE, And '59 Corvette. Maybe a '35 Mercedes-Benz 500K, '33 Pierce Arrow Silver Arrow, '35 Auburn Bobtail Speedster 851, a Deusenberg SJ and/or Cord LJ, depending upon cost.

Tens of thousands worth of clothes and shoes. I already have over 50 pair of shoes, but I agree with women who claim you can never have enough shoes.

Watches: Romain Jerome Liberty DNA, Ulysse Nardin "The Stranger," Romaine Jerome "Moon Dust," Konstantin Chaykin Lunokhod, Panerai Lunnor Marina and a few others. I have as many or more watches as I have pairs of shoes, but I've never paid more than a grand on any. There are some beautiful, ridiculously priced watches out there; some costing as much as a million. No matter how much money I have, or how beautiful the watch, I could never pay that much unless the thing was also a teleporter.

Rings featuring large, high quality opals and sapphires- separately.

A large but relatively simple pontoon boat for fishing and tooling around on a lake

Horses to be boarded when we are not at the lake house.

Expensive first class trips to Europe, Australia and New Zealand, Southeast Asia and Iceland

Books to fill up the huge libraries in my two new homes.

Sculpture for the sculpture garden I put on the yard of one of the new homes.

Music and language tutors.

Season tickets to the Yankees (first five rows behind the dugout on the first base side) Panthers ( first ten rows at the 50 yard line) and NY Rangers (first 10 rows at mid-ice)

The services of a concierge Doctor.

The services of a personal chef, three to four nights a week.

Concert and theater subscriptions in venues local to whatever cities we end up in or near.

I may have to dip into the investments to cover all this, but, hey, I'll have the dough.

I'd like to keep the books I have, well downsized now, but still interesting to a possible some.

Elder life can be tricky.

My aunt Nan (I have spoken of her as my 1oo year old aunt) gave me a Zola book and at some point, probably just pre the move from California when I was doing a lot of eliminating, I sold it to a local bookstore for not much. I could now slap myself silly over doing that. Dammit, she trusted me with it.

I've no idea if the book was financially valuable, but it was valuable in other ways.

At last count it is at 1.3 billion

No winner. The Dream remains alive!

I may boost my purchases up to $6.

That will increase your odds of winning by about .00000000000001% About the same as if you bought $5000 in tickets.

Jackpot up to 1.3 billion now or $800 million on direct payout. You could buy every possible combination for less than $600 million but you'd lose if you had to split with someone.

I'll bet he's not too happy this morning

Somebody in the Houston area got about 2 million out of it, last night. Not a bad haul.

Announcement. I do not live in the Houston area.

That is all.

Can someone please buy a ticket for me? I will naturally re-imburse that person if it wins.

Count me in on that deal too!

Considering they normally would have collected thousands not millions, it's a very lucky haul. I'll be happy if someone finally wins the thing and gives me "only" $2 million. Of course I'll have to pare my plans down considerably, but that's fine.

Now here's a question: If you were the person who won the $2 million, would you buy another ticket?