Like clockwork, my life over the past few years has been a steady sequence of steps leading up to the next major event. The next major intellectual hurdle, the next major trip, the next major purchase … . Not breaking the pattern, I’ve decided what I really want next: A British Racing green Mini Cooper-S. (PDF with pictures of the car, attached goodies and pricing.)
Unlike my father, I don’t enjoy recurring expenses. I really prefer paying in huge lump sums. So extreme financing whereby I pay a tiny amount initially and keep paying a sum per month for many months thereafter is not an option. I plan on saving up for it and paying for a bulk of it at the point of purchase. Since our earlier checklist worked so well, I’ve devised a more colourful scheme for announcing my progress toward the goal on this web log. Tadaaa.
For those with negative energy in the audience, I know, sure the average grad student doesn’t want to wait eons and rather goes in for a 2nd-hand rusty bucket of bolts.
I am not your average grad student.
Unrelated:
Can I have a large (1280×1024 and up) version of
a. Scottish highlands OR
b. Sunny scotland OR
c. History lesson
for my wallpaper?
To avoid future such offtopicness, I get e-mailed comments from these web logs, so you can comment, for instance, on those earlier pictures and request for the larger versions or send me e-mails. They won’t go unnoticed.
Anyway, for now, here are 2560×1920 versions of those images:
a. Scottish Highlands
b. Sunny Scotland
c. History Lesson
Of course people, grabbing and using them needs to be in compliance with these terms.
Awesome. Thanks for the really quick response! I liked those photos so much that I wanted them instantly. Sorry for the unrelated post. Won’t happen in future!
Actually, once you do get the car, you will probably cease to remain a grad student.
Time-scales indicated by back-of-the-envelope calculations seem to indicate that.