Oh, KathieK, your ideas are so sweet, you really don't deserve this, but--
I guess I'm really being a party pooper tonight!
Real Life Happens--
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The first thing I would do is give my two-week notice. Then take two weeks' vacation.
We'd have a big party for all our friends and then invite them all on vacation with us.
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Three days into your vacation with your friends, while doing nothing spectacular, you break both your legs and must be medi-vac'd to the hospital, where after emergency surgery and two casts, you are sent home in a wheelchair. One of your dearest friends cuts her vacation short to go home with you and help take care of you while you recuperate.
Meanwhile, the rest of your friends, whom you firmly ordered to continue enjoying their vacation in your honor, get severe food poisoning from a world-class restaurant. One-fourth of them continue the vacation after a couple days alternating between bedroom and bathroom. The rest of them wind up in the hospital the day after you get sent home from it, so you can't even commiserate with them. Three of your hospitalized friends are so ill they become comatose for two months, and require two years before they can walk again.
One of your "friends" later sues you, because you invited him on the vacation, so his illness is obviously YOUR fault. Although he eventually loses, your lawyer fees add up.
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We'd put some aside in trust funds for the kids.
Then we'd set up a Connecticut Robotics Education Center (I already have the building picked out) with dorms, classrooms, a facility to hold tournaments, machine shops, etc.
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Although you still have 30 million USD left from your winnings after paying everyone's hospital and nursing home bills, the neighbors to your proposed CREC building object to your plans. Some are convinced that it should really become an indoor mini golf center. Most think that having a youth center nearby will attract too many teens, along with drugs, vandalism, and other supposed "teen" problems. A few even accuse you of being racist for proposing such an idea. (Reminder: this is real life, which doesn't necessarily make sense.) The zoning and planning commission meetings drag on endlessly...
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Then I'd figure out what other charities I wanted to support.
Then, if anything was leftover I'd buy a used car to replace my Jeep. Well, OK, maybe a new Jeep. Or maybe a lamborghini... hmmm... 
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But you actually decide you'll subscribe to a charter jet service so you can visit...
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Oh, and a log house in the mountains.
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in southern California, where the annual fire season takes place where your log house
was...
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And a beach house at the beach.
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...in Malibu, where a brush fire roaring down a nearby canyon collides with the heavy ocean swell from a tropical storm 1,000 miles away to the south. Your remaining friends take bets on which will destroy your beach house first...