Can I get help explaining this, please?
Nov. 10th, 2007 08:18 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
sylvarI'm currently using a PC owned by TBLC. I need to give it back to them at my earliest convenience; this is almost certainly on our trip to Florida which starts next Friday.
I'm a computer contractor.
So can y'all help me figure out how to explain to Jodi that it's not sufficient that I be permitted to use her old MacBook whenever she's not using it to write term papers? That's her preferred plan; mine is to spend less than $1k on a midrange laptop, preferably 2GB/160GB. (Probably around $700-800 after rebate.)
I don't mean to hold her up for ridicule here; I think her perspective is just sufficiently far from mine that I'm having trouble articulating the reasons why I think my plan is better. It's too obvious to me.
I'm a computer contractor.
So can y'all help me figure out how to explain to Jodi that it's not sufficient that I be permitted to use her old MacBook whenever she's not using it to write term papers? That's her preferred plan; mine is to spend less than $1k on a midrange laptop, preferably 2GB/160GB. (Probably around $700-800 after rebate.)
I don't mean to hold her up for ridicule here; I think her perspective is just sufficiently far from mine that I'm having trouble articulating the reasons why I think my plan is better. It's too obvious to me.
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Date: 2007-11-12 04:59 am (UTC)"Ben, we need you to get online right now. We've got a real emergency. The frobnitz is mortilating the bognofrob!"
"Uh, gee, boss, I'm sorry. My wife is writing a really important term paper and she's really stressed because it's due in two days. Can it wait a few hours until her next break?"
Even if your job doesn't explicitly put you on call, this is not a conversation you want to risk having.