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From: gtaylor at tnetconsulting.net (Grant Taylor)
Subject: [COFF] Knuth
Date: Mon, 3 Aug 2020 11:32:40 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <323ed439-ea73-f3bb-d020-308f1502d8fb@tnetconsulting.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAEoi9W5huukS7-WH34ALht+zjNxy8RTBPBJUqiKDpGP=Ha3yoA@mail.gmail.com>

On 8/3/20 11:13 AM, Dan Cross wrote:
> When I was in the US Marine Corps, an infantryman once told me that 
> a US$200 pair of boots wasn't just an expensive pair of boots, but 
> an investment in one's feet.

A friend of mine said something similar when he spent personal money to 
put an SSD into his work notebook computer years ago.

"It was an investment in myself.  I spend 8-12 hours 5 (or more) days a 
week on my work notebook.  So I spent ~150 to make my life better."

I ended up doing similar within a couple of months.

It was definitely worth it.



-- 
Grant. . . .
unix || die

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  reply	other threads:[~2020-08-03 17:32 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-08-03  0:50 paul.allan.palmer
2020-08-03  1:02 ` crossd
2020-08-03  1:32   ` cym224
2020-08-03  1:58     ` ats
2020-08-03 13:25       ` clemc
2020-08-03 13:51         ` crossd
2020-08-04  7:27           ` jsteve
2020-08-03 16:06         ` cym224
2020-08-03 17:13           ` crossd
2020-08-03 17:32             ` gtaylor [this message]
2020-08-03  5:21     ` thomas.paulsen

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