Lately I’ve been introspective on a couple of dualities I’ve noticed in myself. The first is pretty lame, but hey, wrapping it up thematically lets me use the cool title.
I’ve commented before, but for a wired sort of fella, I’m fairly in love with paper and pens. My brother recently bought me a small moleskine notebook which I fell in love with. Unfortunately, my previous favorite pens bleed a bit too much on the paper, and so I had to search for a new favorite writing implement.
Fortunately, I didn’t have to look too far. In fact, I walked right past it in a truck stop. My old favorite Zebra F-301 had been updated to the F-301 Ultra. Rubberized grip (no plastic), smoother edges, and the same great fine point make for a wonderful replacement.
The slightly more serious dichotomy I’ve been examining in myself deals with my future as far as job, finances, etc. On the one hand, I’m totally committed to finding a job that I enjoy, regardless of the salary. I got an informal job offer from some place that I can’t name that I’m fairly sure I would not enjoy the work environment. They could have paid substantially more money than my current job, but I barely even considered it because money really isn’t all that important compared to peace and contentment.
While at the same time, I’ve been obsessing over (what I claim will be) my new car (Storm Titanium or Graphite Gray, however many options I can afford — the sports pack drops .3 sec off the 60mph time down to 4.6s).
So I guess I can’t claim to be totally immune to tempations of material wealth, just that I hopefully do keep other things as a higher priority.
That car is ridiculous.
“The only difference between men and boys
is the size and cost of their toys.”
And yours goes Vroom Vroom!
Left by Colin on November 1st, 2004
Is anyone immune?
Left by TheMole on November 1st, 2004
Sweet ride, that’s for sure…for some reason I was thinking that they dropped everything from that car to save weight (AC, radio, etc), but it appears that at least in the version on that page that it does in fact have the essentials…nice…
Left by JFu on November 1st, 2004
I know I used to love fast cars, but now that I’m old I don’t understand the car fetish anymore. I mean, sure, driving a Lotus would be lots of fun, but $40,000 worth of fun? I doubt it. Even if you have to buy some car, you are still spending an additional $25,000 for a fun car vs. an efficient, practical one. There are a lot of things I could spend $25,000 on that I would have much more fun with.
Left by Matt on November 10th, 2004
Nice wav file, inside every gook there is an american trying to get out…
You should go for the money, peace and contentment are nice things, but work is work. It should not be too pleasant. Allways go for the hard way.
Left by Jon Berg on December 16th, 2004