$500,000,000 4.(s)

Hey All

So the next substantial post starts... Not sure where this one will end up, but I will start with the US Lottery... this week on the US lottery you can win 500million dollars, thats half a billion dollars or roughly 312million pounds. So the question crops up if you won that amount and become one of the richest people in the world what would you do? write of the debt of a small country, buy millions of sports cars, perhaps a stately home, dine with the queen, invest it, set up companies for fun and most probably retire. In reality most people who win the lottery win a million pounds buy a very nice house without having to pay a mortgage, possibly a sports car and then they will run out of money. However 312 million pounds is more than one man can spend unless you became the main share holder in Manchester United, or City or Chelsea. All joking aside its to much money to comprehend spending, but yet still people dream about that sort of money. Interestingly the people who earn that sort of money without winning it are people like Bill Gates and Richard Branson, and numerous powerful Sheiks in the middle east. I think to start with I would want a bodyguard(that amount of money doesn't come without trouble) give a fairly massive amount to charity, a nice house nothing to special , a nice car, a micro brewery and thats about all oh and possibly a nice money making scheme like a university. But what would you do with that much money?


Moving on. In other news I finished (hopefully) my last ever essay at university, and I cannot wait to move on to bigger and better things. I just want to graduate and move on, and set myself up in the world. I may treat myself to a nice bottle of JD when I finally do finish actually more preferably I will get a Lagavulin, not sure where to find that gem though. But I will have to let you know another day about that.

Birthdays are very odd things, this year I will be at university for mine with very few people around to celebrate with so is acceptable to just postpone your birthday till your with the people who really care about you? I hope its ok as thats what I'm going to be doing this year. But in general I don't think to much about birthdays, I don get to fussed about them, and I don't like really other people making to much of a fuss about mine.

Hope your all well

A_R

HOFFA 3.(s)

Been a long while since I blogged. Been very very busy with coursework! The current work which I am on top of is that of Jimmy R. Hoffa and Bobby Kennedy, the question is whether Kennedy was justified in creating the Get Hoffa Squad after he became Attorney General in 1961? interesting question really and you could go almost any way you wanted with it. It is certainly a topic that would more interest an American audience than it would a British, partly because I can't imagine many people in Britain would know who he is. Interestingly i'd love to hear more behind his disappearance.

Currently I'm sitting drinking coffee with the sun beaming down into my room and the cricket on the radio, and we(England) certainly are losing now after losing the wickets of Prior, Trott, and Patel in quick succession after being set 340 by Sri Lanka, we're now currently as I publish this 259-8 at tea. Mind you we did better than I thought we were going to do, and the test was a very good match batting and bowling preforming well at various points, nice slow track and a quick outfield always makes games interesting. Looking forward to maybe starting up playing cricket and possibly rugby once I finish uni and get back home. Not sure if Sophie will be to happy about either of those choices. Will have to talk to her about it I guess, I would certainly want her to come along and watch.


Anyway a more substantial and prepared blog will come at some point just thought I needed to be mildly active. Be back soon

A_R