CDR: Re: Vinge
Tim May
tcmay at got.net
Thu Nov 30 01:51:04 PST 2000
At 11:41 PM -0500 11/29/00, Harmon Seaver wrote:
>Tim May wrote:
>
>>
>> My point about the old edition is that $25 is a lot to pay for what
>> is basically a novella. I predict those who pay $25 and finish the
>> novella two hours later will be saying "I paid $25 for _this_?"
>>
>
> I don't know - 25 bucks doesn't get you much anymore. I spent $40
>tonight in a mediocre resturant for some walleye and a couple glasses of
>Merlot. About 2 hours and they didn't even have a cute waitress. I'm sure
>the book will be much more filling.
To each their own. Spending $40 for one for dinner is a lot of money,
esp. if you claim the wine was mediocre and the waitress wasn't cute.
I don't spend this kind of money.
Could be why I retired when I was 34. Think about it.
Front-load your savings. Skip the $40 dinners and the $25 paperback
novels. Take the $400 or whatever per month and invest it.
--Tim May
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