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April 27, 2007
Wants and Needs
I want a DSLR - have done since before my failed attempt to buy one "for Dawnise" to take on her trip to S. Africa.
But I don't even remotely need one. And I'm really good at differentiating needs and wants, and de-prioritizing (and rate limiting) the latter.
The thing is that at this point, there's not much we need - just a fair bit of stuff we want. For example, I still haven't solved the network storage problem - but I'm still not willing to fork out the cash for a ReadyNAS. The receiver in our home theater system is going brain-dead and not listening to the remote reliably, but I haven't found a replacement at a price point I like.
I've come to the conclusion that I'm thrifty cheap - and there's nothing to be done about it.
And since the landscaper pretty much screwed up everything he could (that's another story) and then dissolved the company, I have this great sink-hole into which I can pour money.
Yay.
Posted by dberger at April 27, 2007 1:47 PM
Comments
This is why you get married. To meet someone to convince you from time to time that allowing a want up the priority queue isn't going to kill you. In my household, this happens when The Smarter Half gets sufficiently annoyed at my thrifty^H^H^H^H^H^H^H cheapskate tendencies and just promotes the want item up to the top of the queue and calls funthings.pop(visa);.
Of course, I rewrote the funthings object to not allow it to call pop() method unless child_process.funthings.queuesize() returns zero. After child_process.age() returned 1, The Smarter Half hacked a backdoor into funthings so she can get around the limitation. She's good about looking at the finances object before calling on funthings, so I haven't reverted the change. Of course, funthings.pop(visa) does get called a lot less often than before.
#include "child_process_cute_stories_make_it_all_worthwhile.h"
Posted by: Steve S. at May 3, 2007 11:26 AM