lilfluff

As for some reason strangers keep celebrating my birthday each year, going to wild extremes including giant fireworks displays, I once again am asking people to celebrate safely. Take any local fire danger warnings seriously, arrange a designated driver or simply don't drive if you are drinking, and keep an eye on your pets since the fireworks may scare them. Let's all stick around to celebrate again next year.

In other problematic news, I keep having conversations like this with my sense of entitlement.

Me: Woohoo! The store card is paid off, zero balance!

SoE: Hey, cool, you know what this means?

Me: What?

SoE: We could buy an awesome new computer!

Me: Wait, what? This one works just fine.

SoE: Did you know they sell laptops with four core processors now? That's eight simultaneous threads! Ooh! This one has seven and a quarter hours of battery life!

Me: I said, this one works just fine! How much does that cost any-- what! No, I'm not dropping 2K on a new laptop!

SoE: Seven hours of--

Me: NO! I just paid that card off. The whole point is to get to zero debt. Not get deeper in debt.

(SoE uses puppy eyes. Puppy eyes attack fails.)

Me: No. Maybe once everything is paid off. But not now.

SoE: If I wait can I have a laptop with an eight-core processor?

Me: Maybe.

SoE: Yay! (SoE does a Happy Dance!)