T MINUS Five Days (T-5)

I can't help it. I told myself that I would stay away until she gets here but I can't help giving even a brief update on the development.

The 19" WXGA LCD monitor is currently in Doral Florida waiting for the public holidays to cease so that she can come home to daddy. I am expecting to get her by Wednesday. A dear friend asked me a very important question with relation to consistency in my posts. She asked "What about the television?" The 27" monitor cost $25,000. Thus far the flatscreen has cost me $17490 and is scheduled to cost an additional six thousand to clear at customs. This means that the amount set aside for the 27" had to be floated into the emergency replacement fund for the 19". JMC has to now function without the 27" television component for the next eight months until I come back around. Before I get the television I am going to maximize the list of other items: tv capture card, sound card, 5.1 speaker system, bluetooth wireless desktop system etc. Besides, once I can capture cable and view it properly on my 19" then mission accomplished.

There are other considerations that are currently upon me. Last year, or the year before- after working at CWJ for a long enough time I was questioned by a fellow about whether or not I bought my car. I said no- because then I spent heavily on Jenna, new hard drive, burners, ram etc. I have decided that after working for so long it is time to stop borrowing and start pushing my own key. What car should a techie drive? There are different types of techies.

1. Some techies are of the yardie Portmore type who want the latest technology at the absolute cheapest prices. I like to call these the techjamaica.com techies. They will therefore want to buy a sidekick2 for no more than $5000, get an Ipod 5th generation for $12,000 and are willing to drive anything with four wheels. These are the people who will probably drive a car from the 80s and tell you it is vintage.
2. Other techies are what I call the Uptown techies. They will spend the money on the technology and show you. They have no problem dropping the money down on the latest mp3/video phone, they will have the goods to match anybody. I don't know how they afford it. I really don't. These are the techs rolling in thet tegs with the turbo timer and the big ass muffler.
3. Then you have me. We are the Cross Roads techies. We aren't totally into the hype but definately into the functionality. We try to balance price and quality- but we aren't unreasonable. Therefore when you can you do what you can- you save your money and make your machine able to truly compete with the uptown. Sometimes we fall in love head over heels and burn the money on one item- but we mainly go for the moderate over time view. I think we should drive small cars with a coupe design to be able to lug around the machine in the back, and maybe one passenger- because we usually walk alone.

I guess that settles it then. Small coupe car is what I am thinking. There isn't too much tech I can afford to do for a car though. I mainly want my own pointA to pointB device. In three years this techie wants his own house... but then that is another 36 months from now.