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Mood: ambitious
Music: loaded god complex, cock it and pull it

Cookies in NYC

For those of you reading at the new digs, what do you think? Thanks to Mildred Fierce for moving me over from Blogger to WordPress; if you need something similarly done, she’s the one to call.

There’ll be glitches here and there for the next week or so as I clean things up and (re)tag and organize all 588 entries I’ve written.

Need to get a life.

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In college, needed some spare dough so I delivered cookies. Huge 12″ to 24″ cookies.

You’re delivering cookies to co-eds, think about it, my buddy Scott said.

So I signed up. Lemme tell you a few things:

  • Yes, only women order 12″ to 24″ cookies.
  • No, it turns out that these are not the type of women I, or most people, dream of meeting.
  • I made $600 that summer.
  • Cornell has lots of hills.
  • A new transmission cost me $1,500.
  • My total cost of ownership earnings that summer: 5 pounds of fat and -$900.

Point’s that there’s a total cost to doing any activity. Using that Zipcar service so that means that while I’m spending about $150 a month, that also means that I’m not spending $350 a month in car payments, $150 a month in insurance, $50 a month on gas, $400 a month on parking.

My total cost of ownership of a non-car is now -$800 a month.

On an unrelated matter, the book-burning pastor in Florida gets to vent. But what’s the total cost of ownershipa that action?

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4 replies on “TCO”

Thanks for the shoutout, yo!

I thought you were selling your car? Yikes. I feel you on the auto woes, though. Dump truck debris cracked my windshield this summer. Had to have the entire thing replace.

Time to buy some rollerblades. Or a velocipede.

Ah – I like that I can respond to people individually. Thanks so much for doing this for me. I think there's a GPS somewhere in your life coming up…

i'm impressed.. i started trying to tag everything and got oh… maybe 3 months in… i need to get back to that.. i like the TCO idea.

Thanks – I didn't do much although the tagging and editing of entries is taking forever. I hope that it's worth it though.

I'm glad that you came along and kept reading (and commenting!)

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