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I am quite blessed in the wife department. She is quite frugal and actually helps me to stay in control. Very lucky guy i am.
I will admit the Kids have cost quite a bit. But the house on my goodness the house.
Also, I don't consider a person as being a thing so I really don't put value on that at least not monetarily. Perhaps emotionally.
To err is human to really elephant it up you need a computer
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Ok, it would have made sense to click the joke icon. I don't care spending money for the family and that includes then finally also the house and the car and much more ...
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oh I knew it was a joke. It is ok. Sometimes writing on these things does not convey the whole attitude. I wasn't as strongly worded as I think it came across from me either.
To err is human to really elephant it up you need a computer
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3rd or 4th, I suspect. Wives can get very expensive (check out any divorcee), and kids cost an absolute fortune!
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"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
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I'm currently paying more for my car than my house each month 
My house is pretty big, my car is a mid-range (Opel Corsa) and I drive less than 1000 km a month.
I hate cars, but unfortunately, I can't do without 
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Congratulations, Mehreen! Drive it in good health! ![Rose | [Rose]](https://www.codeproject.com/script/Forums/Images/rose.gif)
/ravi
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Thanks Ravi! 
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I took my first car - taken over from my mom, it was umpteeen years old - to the NAF (the Norwegian parallel to AAA in the US) workshop for the bi-annual safety test mandated by the EU. When I picked it up, the service man told me that he was truly impressed by the car: It was completely run down in every single aspect he had checked - and it was still running! If I spent money on removing all the rust, maybe the brakes would fail the following week. I could fix that, and next week the ages old battery might fail. And so on.
So he told me that the best thing to do with that car was to take it behind the barn and shoot it.
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My dad gave me his car, a 1973 Ford Gran Torino station wagon. I could fit at least dozen people in there when going to the drive-in movie theater, it was $5 or $10 per car to get in. I had it while in college, at some point the radiator started leaking, thankfully it was during an almost record cold winter  and I could drive where I needed to go without the car overheating without a drop of antifreeze. Had to drive with the windows rolled down to keep the frost on the windows minimized. Towards the end of that winter the gas tank sprung a big leak... Got $25 from the auto wreckers, when they came and towed it away.
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That's some story.
My dad works in the transport and drives Toyota Hiace 90's models and I'm pretty sure I'll never be able to drive that 
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Great, enjoy. The first anything is always memorable.
Mine was 13 years old and that was a long, long, long, long time ago. Actually sold it for more than I paid ($75/$125). I am to the left of the pond so the car survived with the help of the Pep Boys.
>64
Now is not the time to dream and drift, there's work to do and loads to lift.
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For $75??? 
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Yup. Lot of money in those days. I worked for about $0.65 an hour in an entry level job.
Just got my second booster, slept all morning. Mostly just tired.
>64
Some days the dragon wins. Suck it up.
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Good for you. Enjoy!
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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congrats!
after you got it, you need to take good care of it...
diligent hands rule....
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Happy for you!
I also bought an Opel Astra recently and the only goal I had in mind was to just travel and enjoy the roads here... Hope you get your license soon.
The sh*t I complain about
It's like there ain't a cloud in the sky and it's raining out - Eminem
~! Firewall !~
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I'd like this arm to be able to put the monitor in any combination of location & orientation that I feel like (no more than 3 feet total spread needed), and of course be VESA compatible. If it matters, I'd like to have it be able to be attached to the wall at a stud location.
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OG, how is yours attached to your stone wall? - CR
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It's attached to a piece of wood which is held in place against the wall by my desk via a couple of slots.
Sounds a bit Heath Robinson, I know - but it works well!
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Mine is attached to the desktop but:
When looking for good arms for my 2 monitors I saw AMAZON BASICS have great products, quite similar to much more expensive ones. Mines are from them and work very well.
Hope this helps.
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There you are, slaved for years to get the code right and tight, the product drops and one month later ... Babylon Fall's concurrent global player count drops below 10 on PC[^]
Ouch. That's gotta hurt your pride. ![Rose | [Rose]](https://codeproject.global.ssl.fastly.net/script/Forums/Images/rose.gif)
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Just like Overwatch! 
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Yeah. I've had more players than that in my house for a Doom Party* ... 
* Albeit in separate groups of four ...
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No sure I fully understand their business models.
Any help or comments? Appear to be big employers of tech folks.
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