Stop me before I spend again

For yet another reminder of why this wait needs to be over, I present to you my latest “travel-related” expenditure:

Yeah, that’s right, the new, super skinny, Macbook Air.  In a moment of weakness, I ordered this using as a justification (among many others) the fact that it has built in wireless, takes up almost no space and only weighs three pounds.  Since I’ll be carrying an infant and a huge diaper bag and likely pulling a large suitcase through the airport, I thought the four pounds this machine cuts from the weight of my work laptop  justified the cost.  If that wasn’t enough of a justification, I figure that the fact that I really shouldn’t take my laptop from work to VN is sufficient (you know, what if it gets lost or stolen or something).  Of course, I know this logic doesn’t hold, given the fact that there are many MANY other laptops out there that cost hundreds (if not over a thousand) of dollars off the pricetag.

This, sadly, is not entirely out of the ordinary for me.  These binges used to only occur, though, when I had worked too much (say, over three hundred hours a month).  I haven’t done anything like this since last June, so maybe I was overdue.  For now, that’s good enough for me.

February 4, 2008 - Posted by Oscar and Etta's mom | Shopping, Waiting