Going Cheap

I’m kicking myself for going cheap on my laptop replacement.  I thought that I would save some money and just get a computer to type on, I would do all my video, audio and creative stuff on the computer at home in the dungeon (basement).   The problem that I discovered is that when you buy something cheap, it tends to be all cheap.  I was willing to compromise on the video quality, the lack of a sound card, the plastic case that imitated a plastic case.  I did not think that the keys, the pad and the on board mouse would all be cheap too.  Stupid me!

In revolt over my cheap computer purchase I went out the other day to replace a socket I needed for doing a break job on the Honda.  The Honda civic is the easiest car that I have even done a break job on.  If you place the jack in just the right place under the plastic quarter panel, you can bend it up enough to get under the car and remove the break caliper without taking off the wheel.  You will need a special flex socket wrench that costs $425, but what is that compared to avoiding the three minutes it takes to jack up the car the old fashion way.  So I started this paragraph telling you that when I got to the store to replace the old 10mm socket that I stripped out, I bought the next to the best one I could find.  I though buying the best one would be prideful, so I got the next to the best.  No cheap on the socket for me.  I had learned my computer lesson.

As I type this I am thinking of ways I can tell my story without using the letter “B”.  That is because the b is not working on my cheap computer and I need to go back and retype what I meant to say.  My spell corrector does not work on words that have a hole in them.  I don’t know if that spell checker is cheap too.  I‘ll check it out later when I am in the dungeon.  I’m also thinking that windows 8 was designed “redneck prohibitive”?  My spell checker just stopped working as I tried to fix prohibitive, I wonder if it knows I was talking about it?  Maybe someone in the cloud is reading this as I type and picking on me? 

As I often think about myself, I was thinking about myself as I worked on fixing the word “prohibitive”.  I thought, “Does God consider me cheap”?  I mean I have a few “B’s” that don’t work and don’t want to.  I have some (many) parts that don’t function correctly.  It seems like many of my parts have worn out prematurely.  I feel like God picked me up at a flea market.  Maybe He got all the people from South Dakota on sale, cheap.  Maybe we were “bundled” with the North Dakota people or give as a reward if God would take Illinois, He could have the South Dakota people as an incentive. 

OK, I know that God doesn’t go cheap, but I tend to write what I think.  You must recall that this blog is free, so you might only be getting what you paid for.  Maybe you ought to upgrade to one of those blogs that have adds and advertisement.  Maybe I should not be so cheap and add some advertisement so that when someone clicked on that add from my site I would get 1/3 of a cent.  I bet I could make 3 or 4 cents a month off my blog.  NO.  It’s not worth it for me to sell my friends so cheaply.