Comments on: Just for once in my life, I’d like to not have to buy a new computer in a hurry http://reinderdijkhuis.com/wordpress/2009/10/16/just-for-once-in-my-life-id-like-to-not-have-to-buy-a-new-computer-in-a-hurry/ Devoid of all delusions save those of observation, experience and reflection. Tue, 26 Jul 2011 13:46:53 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Waffle » Blog Archive » There’s no better welcome home and no better start to the new year than a dead computer http://reinderdijkhuis.com/wordpress/2009/10/16/just-for-once-in-my-life-id-like-to-not-have-to-buy-a-new-computer-in-a-hurry/comment-page-1/#comment-2035 Waffle » Blog Archive » There’s no better welcome home and no better start to the new year than a dead computer Sun, 03 Jan 2010 22:16:46 +0000 http://reinderdijkhuis.com/wordpress/?p=2545#comment-2035 <p>[...] you may remember, the day before I left for Tennessee in mid-October, my Macbook died (it got better, especially after I gave up running Parallels on it. I just came home from Tennessee [...]</p> [...] you may remember, the day before I left for Tennessee in mid-October, my Macbook died (it got better, especially after I gave up running Parallels on it. I just came home from Tennessee [...]

]]> By: Reinder http://reinderdijkhuis.com/wordpress/2009/10/16/just-for-once-in-my-life-id-like-to-not-have-to-buy-a-new-computer-in-a-hurry/comment-page-1/#comment-1947 Reinder Mon, 26 Oct 2009 16:09:45 +0000 http://reinderdijkhuis.com/wordpress/?p=2545#comment-1947 <p>Actually, the frugality had at that time already paid for a large tax bill - which I admit was a preventable one. It'd have been easier for me to tighten the belt slightly for a year and report at the start of the year that I was no longer eligible for rent support, rather than have the amount added to my cash flow and pay it all back at once at the end of the year. Lesson learned: money leaking in is as harmful as money leaking out, in the long run.</p> <p>As for this: "Also, buying computers in a rush to replace dead ones because you are on a deadline is a function of having deadlines, not of your life."</p> <p>But having deadlines is a function of my life and one that I would really like to do without for a few decades, just to see what it's like.</p> Actually, the frugality had at that time already paid for a large tax bill – which I admit was a preventable one. It’d have been easier for me to tighten the belt slightly for a year and report at the start of the year that I was no longer eligible for rent support, rather than have the amount added to my cash flow and pay it all back at once at the end of the year. Lesson learned: money leaking in is as harmful as money leaking out, in the long run.

As for this: “Also, buying computers in a rush to replace dead ones because you are on a deadline is a function of having deadlines, not of your life.”

But having deadlines is a function of my life and one that I would really like to do without for a few decades, just to see what it’s like.

]]> By: Kitchen Butterfly http://reinderdijkhuis.com/wordpress/2009/10/16/just-for-once-in-my-life-id-like-to-not-have-to-buy-a-new-computer-in-a-hurry/comment-page-1/#comment-1944 Kitchen Butterfly Mon, 26 Oct 2009 09:31:37 +0000 http://reinderdijkhuis.com/wordpress/?p=2545#comment-1944 <p>Why have you burst my bubble? I've been living in paradise, claiming the MAC and all things APPLE to be the next best thing to sliced bread, or at least windows! And I know about buying computers in a hurry. Went to the Tea Museum in Houwewrzijl....read your review/blog post from 2005 before we went - oh the power of google</p> Why have you burst my bubble? I’ve been living in paradise, claiming the MAC and all things APPLE to be the next best thing to sliced bread, or at least windows! And I know about buying computers in a hurry. Went to the Tea Museum in Houwewrzijl….read your review/blog post from 2005 before we went – oh the power of google

]]> By: Branko Collin http://reinderdijkhuis.com/wordpress/2009/10/16/just-for-once-in-my-life-id-like-to-not-have-to-buy-a-new-computer-in-a-hurry/comment-page-1/#comment-1939 Branko Collin Sat, 24 Oct 2009 10:23:08 +0000 http://reinderdijkhuis.com/wordpress/?p=2545#comment-1939 <p>Reinder, how is life in the new fatherland? Have they internets there?</p> Reinder, how is life in the new fatherland? Have they internets there?

]]> By: Leem10538a http://reinderdijkhuis.com/wordpress/2009/10/16/just-for-once-in-my-life-id-like-to-not-have-to-buy-a-new-computer-in-a-hurry/comment-page-1/#comment-1917 Leem10538a Sat, 17 Oct 2009 13:05:28 +0000 http://reinderdijkhuis.com/wordpress/?p=2545#comment-1917 <p>"You mean, the frugality pays off, right?"</p> <p>Yeah, that reminds me of the Tony Hancock episode where he gives a pint of blood, discovers it's a rare group, and then gets the same pint back after injuring himself because it's the only pint the hospital has of his rare group. The doctor thinks it was a waste of time giving it in the first place, but Hancock points out that he'd have been in trouble without it.</p> “You mean, the frugality pays off, right?”

Yeah, that reminds me of the Tony Hancock episode where he gives a pint of blood, discovers it’s a rare group, and then gets the same pint back after injuring himself because it’s the only pint the hospital has of his rare group. The doctor thinks it was a waste of time giving it in the first place, but Hancock points out that he’d have been in trouble without it.

]]> By: Branko Collin http://reinderdijkhuis.com/wordpress/2009/10/16/just-for-once-in-my-life-id-like-to-not-have-to-buy-a-new-computer-in-a-hurry/comment-page-1/#comment-1915 Branko Collin Fri, 16 Oct 2009 21:07:48 +0000 http://reinderdijkhuis.com/wordpress/?p=2545#comment-1915 <p>Also, buying computers in a rush to replace dead ones because you are on a deadline is a function of having deadlines, not of your life.</p> Also, buying computers in a rush to replace dead ones because you are on a deadline is a function of having deadlines, not of your life.

]]> By: Branko Collin http://reinderdijkhuis.com/wordpress/2009/10/16/just-for-once-in-my-life-id-like-to-not-have-to-buy-a-new-computer-in-a-hurry/comment-page-1/#comment-1914 Branko Collin Fri, 16 Oct 2009 21:06:12 +0000 http://reinderdijkhuis.com/wordpress/?p=2545#comment-1914 <p>Last time I bought a Dell laptop, it took them a month to build and deliver it. Make sure you have it delivered in Tennessee.</p> <p>"<i>I get to lose all the money I saved through 5 weeks of stepping up the frugality. Isn't it wonderful to be me?</i>"</p> <p>You mean, the frugality pays off, right? So, yes, I guess it is wonderful to be you. Where do I sign up? :-)</p> Last time I bought a Dell laptop, it took them a month to build and deliver it. Make sure you have it delivered in Tennessee.

“I get to lose all the money I saved through 5 weeks of stepping up the frugality. Isn’t it wonderful to be me?“

You mean, the frugality pays off, right? So, yes, I guess it is wonderful to be you. Where do I sign up? :-)

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