Friday, March 30, 2007
A letter to the finance minister
Dear Madam Finance Minister (a.k.a. my beautiful wife)
Further to our recent discussion regarding the purchase of a new personal computer, I would like to make my final arguments. These are set out below.
- I am aware that we already have 6 computers in the house and only four occupants (and one dog). You however have dozens of shoes and only two feet.
- While a new computer will allow me to engage in additional hours of gaming at the expense of talking to you and the children, I will be more prepared for the eventuality of Australia being invaded by murderous aliens and will therefore be able to protect my loving family (as long as I can find a gun that uses a mouse to aim and shoot)
- Yes, it really is important that Word documents load two tenths of a second faster and that spreadsheets calculate a fraction of second faster.
- Yes, when I told you that there has been an upgrade to the internet and it only works on dual core processors now, I was lying.
- No, computers are not just porn machines, I really do use mine for work
And my final argument:
I really, really, really want one.
Your ever loving husband
Coach
