I expect my #PowerBall numbers to come up tonight because I forgot to buy my ticket and I’m not going out again today.

⚮⚮⚮Won neither #Powerball nor Double Play. Great entertainment though. Furthermore I learned that I don't necessarily write numerals accurately. Neurological glitch. #dyscalculia.
⚮⚮⚮Bought The Hundred Years' War on Palestine: A History of Settler Colonialism and Resistance, 1917-2017 by Rashid Khalidi. #RdB
⚮⚮⚮A rare night when I awoke & not to pee, hence some light reading—church class chronology of #Israel #Palestine history which goes up to 2006. "Gaza Strip" is not in the glossary.

Oh fuck I forgot to check last nights #Powerball drawing before leaving on vacation. Now I won't know if I'm a billionaire for almost a week!

Shit.

•••Three hour delay and I slept through it. ’Twas Minnesota #Powerball last time.
•••#TealLensman is weird. No space for both a pillar candle & Aelian’s Miscellany on the toilet tank or for the candle alone on the sink cabinet.
•••Back to the heat, all reet, all reet!

Of course #Powerball's announcement is being postponed for technical difficulties, with the jackpot at $1.3 billion smackers.

There were 40 consecutive rollovers in 2021 and 2022; tomorrow is the first ever 41st #Powerball draw. As per the law of very large numbers the odds of a #Powerball rollover continuing gradually decrease. The more trials, the more black swan.

10 draws, ~67%.
20 draws, ~45%.
30 draws, ~30%.
40 draws, ~20%.

And as always, the odds of any given ticket winning nothing whatsoever are very nearly 64%.

#probability
#statistics

What do you want as a present when I win the #Powerball this weekend?

⚮⚮⚮Ornette Coleman currently, after a morning of Stan Kenton and Sun Ra.
⚮⚮⚮Ordered more Sun Ra. #Jazz
⚮⚮⚮Just realized that, frustrated with the #WheresGeorge app, I'd bought a $1.23B #Powerball ticket w/Double Play without entering the $5. It's marked up, so if you see it, it's from me. Whether it carries my luck with it is another matter...

•••$1.09B #Powerball drawing –be still my beating heart.
•••Amazing how someone ahead of me in line always has an issue.
•••I didn’t win.

⚮⚮⚮Opto-neuro knocked me out.
⚮⚮⚮For Connie. Modern #Jazz Quartet. 1960 live recording in SLOVENIA. Currently playing on apsi, my #Linux box (just now figured out how to do this).
⚮⚮⚮$1B #Powerball ho...! No, not that kind of ho...

The #Powerball countdown clock is still broken, not that it matters –we know what time 9:00 p.m. is.

Bought a $1B #Powerball ticket w/Double Play for $5, not $4, thus paying for the convenience of not standing in line behind the lady who was confused and confusing. A further contribution to the Permanent Building Fund.

#Powerball has hit $1B for only the fifth time in its history and they still haven’t fixed their countdown clock.

$1M Idea: Each time I don't play #Powerball w/Powerplay $3 materializes in my pocket.

$1M Idea: #Powerball tickets are receipts.

Amused that the skeoumorph #Powerball countdown clock goes cattywampus and stays that way.

$975M. I’ll have to wait. #Powerball

The #Powerball skeumorph countdown clock is screwed up. 2... 21... 2... 0... 0... 0... 5... 0...

$1M Idea: #Powerball tickets are receipts.