Fifteen goes. FIFTEEN. And nothing. Not a single bean from the lottery. And yet still my sense of expectancy is not diminished, even though the other day i noticed the chances of winning a tenner are just 1 in 56 – so i’m not likely to win anything at all in my year-long1 experiment.
Lottery balance: £-15 // Not A Lottery balance: £15.01
So, no improvement in my “luck” but i have had my first “profit” in the Not A Lottery account thanks to some interest being accrued. A whole penny of interest. Look:
Lottery balance: £-14 // Not A Lottery balance: £14.01
It has dawned on me just how neglected this blog is. If you want to blame (or thank) anyone or thing for this, then you should probably look in the direction of twitter. I seem to spend my digital life over there now. Not actually doing anything useful or productive you understand, rather i read other’s witticisms and try to produce some myself (unsuccessfully).
I’ve written before how i took up twitter in order to compliment this “tech” blog but that it didn’t end up working out like that. Now it seems i might make more use of this blog if i simply use it as an extension to my twittering – a place for thoughts that can’t be recorded in just 140 characters.
Hello. Apologies for the lack of updates – i know you’ve all been on the edge of your seats to discover how this stupid little experiment is going, especially since i swore to try some new numbers. Here’s how i did on the 22nd May (ICBM draw #12)…
Can you tell i’m getting really, really bored of this? Gambling has never been so dull. Maybe if the balances stopped looking like this i’d be happier:
Lottery balance: £-13 // Not A Lottery balance: £13