MP3 players.... again...

[David Bandel]

On Sun, 31 Oct 2004 17:10:08 -0600, Alma J Wetzker <almaw at ieee.org> wrote:
> James McDonald wrote:
> 
> 
> > Kurt Wall wrote:
> >
> >> On Thu, Oct 28, 2004 at 08:52:22AM -0700, Aaron Grewell took 14 lines
> >> to write:
> >>
> >>
> >>>> My phone plays .ogg files, of all things.  Now if only I could
> >>>> afford a decent-sized SD card I'd be in business.
> >>>>
> >>>> Last I checked, pricewatch.com had 512meg SD/MMC cards for under $70.00
> >>>>
> >>>
> >>> (us)....
> >>>
> >>> Oh, it's not that, it's that I have to have 'budgetary justification.'
> >>> (meaning I have to convince my wife) ;>
> >>>
> >>
> >>
> >> Easy. Get one for her, too. ;-)
> >>
> >>
> > Why have one when you can have two for twice the price
> >
> > Sometimes I'm glad that I don't have to say the words "Dear, Can I buy a
> > <insert item here>". But then I worry about what I'm missing because
> > everyone else seems to be married so it's probably not as bad as you all
> > make out. ;)
> 
> Married is good.  One of our tactics is to allow each some money in their own
> account that they can do with as they will.  If I want something expensive, I
> either beg until I can get it or wait until my account has the funds needed to
> purchase what I want.  Given that I play with computers and ham radios, it is
> usually several months between purchases.

Especially if you have expensive taste (like I do).  I use the Icom
M-710 (gotta get one of those 850's though) connected to a Pactor II
Pro.  And my antennas aren't exactly dipoles either (I have a 160m
loop skywire 53 feet in the air).

And I try not to chintz on the computers either, but I don't yet have
an AMD64 like you all were talking about.

The wife leaves me to my devices as long as I'm not cluttering her
house with my junk (it's all out at my "antenna" farm sticking up
above the Papayas, etc.

Ciao,

David A. Bandel
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