It’s Friday. I have craploads of work to do today, Mister Liberty Girl has a project deadline, Liberty Son has makeup schoolwork, and Liberty Daughter has a soccer tournament this weekend, so the following presentation is in lieu of actual content.
Knowing, as we do, that it is more likely we’ll be eaten by a T-Rex than win the lottery, Mister Liberty Girl and I still find it amusing to occasionally indulge in the What-If game. (C’mon, you’ve all done it.)
Land would be right there on the top of the list. With a Big Fucking Fence around it. Next would be the house I’ve been working on since I was a design student in college, based on ancient Roman structures with a huge garden space in the center of an open square building. Oh the bathroom this house would have… Huge, warm, not-slippery, tons of water, air dryers, etc. If you’ve read Heinlein’s Time Enough For Love then you’ve read about both the house and the bathroom.
Yes, I am a Heinlein devotee, as is Mister Liberty Girl. Deal.
The kitchen would likewise be a granite-topped, mahogany-cabineted, super-gadgeted haven for cooks. And it’d have one of these things.
Dedicated water line. Bean hopper. Water reservoir for a proper steam. And a guy who comes out every other Thursday to service the damned thing.
So, what would you all do with your lottery winnings?
UPDATE: Mister Liberty Girl has requested a “metric assload” of these for the CompoundTM perimeter.
I’d buy a Senate seat so I could double my winnings.
Joan of Argghh!
December 12th, 2008
Babe,you forgot to mention the armory, the rabid alligators, and the power plant… but the really esoteric stuff is classified so don’t mention that.
MLG
December 12th, 2008
@MLG: Yes, dear.
Liberty Girl
December 12th, 2008
I’m not sure, but it would almost certainly be belt-fed.
Tam
December 12th, 2008
@Tam: On both the perimeter fence and all vehicles, yes.
Damn, you got the COOL star.
Liberty Girl
December 12th, 2008
Oh hell yeah. Land, land and more land. Build a house in the middle of it. Your huge room is the bathroom, but mine is the kitchen. I’d have more kitchen than necessary, without shame.
I’d also have my own personal shooting ranges and prime hunting areas, maybe start my own private gun club, my own powerlifting gym, and I’m pretty sure I’d have to build a few custom cars as well.
Work? Only on what I wanted to. Can you imagine having the time and money to do whatever you wanted whenever you wanted?
I can.
folly
December 12th, 2008
I’d need a few square miles somewhere near Sedona, Arizona. Enough for a 5,000ft airstrip, personal gun range, and auto workshop. Naturally the missus would want a huge kitchen. We both want huge bathrooms. I’d require a large study with a panoramic view of the surroundings and a roof platform for my telescope. Oh, and the home theatre with iMax compatible screen. The whole house would be off the grid, except for cable internet; solar’s cheap where the sun shines 300 days a year. Should I continue? I always enjoy this sort of thing
D.W.
December 12th, 2008
Ah, yes – the Roman villa. Precisely what Trooper and I hope to have one day, also. Not to mention the land and BFF.
Time Enough – isn’t it a grand read?
LauraB
December 12th, 2008
I seem to have precious little imagination … but I do tend to blow $5 on tickets when the top prize gets strtospheric.
I did find a 16000 acre piece of land along the BLue Ridge in TN that would make a nifty getaway … heck, I could build a garage big enough to put more motorcycles in … LOL … maybe I could compete with Leno!
pete in Midland
December 12th, 2008
Land and Big Fucking Fence, amen. Towers with armed guards. Espresso? HELL YES: Got the Isomac TEA and the MiniMazzer Grinder already and very happy with those. Slurp.
dogette
December 13th, 2008
Anyone who’s a Heinlein devotee is well on their way to being all right with me – and he was dead on about the senselessness in design of both kitchen and bathroom. Spider Robinson agreed in longhand, but I can’t remember where at the moment.
KsR
KingsideRook
December 14th, 2008