This helicopter kept buzzing me after I bought my lottery ticket on Wednesday.
What the hell? I wondered, and then tried to take a picture of it with my camera phone.

Maybe they knew I might win?! Well, let's see if I did. I played these numbers for Megabucks yesterday:
09-12-30-37-39-40
The winning numbers were:
3-6-8-18-27-42
I wasn't even close! Maybe that's why the helicopter was buzzing me, because I was going to do so poorly...?
These were the winning numbers for Saturday's Megabucks:
Megabucks08/20/05
Saturday
6-14-23-28-35-42
1 winner
$5,435,911.
Weymouth
This would seem to indicate that I did not win, since I did not buy my ticket in Weymouth. However, I'll get back to that. On the way to the liquor store to buy the ticket, I saw this beautiful old Dodge Coronet 440 --

Here are the numbers I played:
07-14-16-18-33-40
Not bad -- one number is only one off, and another is exactly right.
The water churned behind the ferry we rode on, passing by the skyline of Seattle. We are all here for my brother's wedding.

I played the Washington Lotto tonight, and the numbers I played were:
A. 01 16 23 25 39 45
B. 09 11 18 23 42 47
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The winning numbers were:
Well, I got one right on one set and was only off by one for three numbers scattered through both sets.