My diseseased body makes me irritable

[g_the_curious]

I've a newfound respect for people in chronic pain and/or discomfort. And lest any of those people complain that their suffering is naught compared to mine--you're absolutely right. I've been sick for less than a week, and already I'm complaining

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[g_the_curious]

Allot of people are refusing to spend money in this economy, which is tragic in many ways because that's what's keeping us from recovering. I think the lesson of frugality that American collectively needed to learn can be taken too far, however.

People (myself included) would lament their spending habits on things they did not need per se, things they didn't plan on getting (impulse buys), or things that were disproportionately expensive to their utility.

As such, the lesson isn't to stop spending, it's to spend wisely. To consider something before buying it.

It sounds like this is a case where spending money on a bike could more properly be described as an investment rather than a frivolous buy. Clearly you want to ride. If your bike is as bad off as you say, then a modest investment in a new one would go tremendously far. You wouldn't do DBA work on a substandard computer for example.

On the other hand, one lesson I've learned is that buying something better in the hopes that it will make you do something rarely works. Buying a fancy computer or extra monitors in the hope that I would spend more time at home programming, for example, was a poor way to motivate me. It doesn't sound like you're doing that here though, since you're still going out and biking with what you have.

I would tentatively say Sunday? I hope that my illness will abate by then, but I woke up feeling sicker again than I did last night, so I'm not entirely sure how things will pan out. But if they do, Sunday afternoon on Katy trail sounds nice if you're up to it.

[thisoldanvil]

are people "refusing to spend money" or do they just have less to spend? will the banks and lending houses that have been "bailed out" lend those taxpayer-supplied dollars to jobs-creating firms? the answer is no because the rate of profit has been falling since the '70s, and investment was turned to paper values, which as we have seen, have collapsed.
and for crissakes, go see a doctor!

[g_the_curious]

Saw one, which reminds me, I need to take my meds. Totally forgot.

People like me are refusing to spend money. People like hello_hello. That's what I was getting at. I have a healthy income stream, and I'm stashing a huge chunk of it because I fear that I will be unemployed again. I'm not replacing my TV. My blown out speakers. Not upgrading anything. Not replacing my dying phone. The latter of which keeps people in your industry working if I'm not mistaken.

I agree with the paper value part. Never understood it. I do understand the tangible effects of the purchasing choices I am making, however, and how widespread they seem to be.