Let the Dreaming Begin (Continue)
Apple Computer released its MacBook Pro yesterday at the Mac World Expo. I have a 6-year old iMac that hangs in there and does almost everything I want, I scam the use of the school's Macs (G5 PowerMac and G4 iBooks) for other purposes, and the iPod is the only portable music player worth having. But, this new MacBook Pro has me dreaming. $2K is a lot of money though.
Speaking of a lot of money for fantasy toys, Bianchi's OETZI carbon frame with an XT/XTR combo groupo is the mountain bike I have my eye on. My current bike, while once great, literally disintegrates beneath me on every ride. It's getting to the point where I don't enjoy riding it - continually frustrating. This little toy would set me back about $3K. Again, a lot of money.
But our house has at least $10K worth of work that absolutely needs to be done (our house is now a monument to entropy), so these toys will likely stay in fantasy world, along with the other $80K of work we'd like to do on the house. Why didn't I become a soulless lawyer or a drug-pushing doctor or a weasel of corporate America? This teaching thing doesn't yield me many cool toys. I do get to sleep well at night and feel like my life has more of a positive than negative effect on the world - but, geez, these toys are cool. To bitch, call 1-800-waaaaah. As long as I can afford $85 running shoes once every six months, I'm happy. Oh yeah, food too - I like food.
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