Oooh. The company is offering a home-pc lease-to-buy-thingy. This is some sort of initiative from the government in order to make the population more pc-literate, and basically it means you can lease/buy a pc through your employer and pay through a monthly deduction from your salary and, this is the crux of it, the deduction is made before tax. Now, I already have a pc at home which I am more than satisfied with… So a stationary PC, even if it has all the bells and whistles one could ask for, is somewhat pointless (especially as there is NO room for it). BUT – I can have a laptop. A brand new shiny IBM ThinkPad for less than thirty alterian dollars a day, eh, sorry, less than 400 NOK a month (currently 54 USD, 34 GBP) for three years (14400 NOK) as opposed to 26000 NOK (3550 USD, 2250 GBP). Mmmm. Laptop. Gadget. With dvd-player… I could watch dvds on the train and stuff (if the battery holds…) Mmmm. Gadget freak, me? Noooo. Not at all. I’m sure it will be very useful, too, for, uhm… Posting to this blog while at my grandparents! Yes! Very useful! And – Uhm – something else, I’m sure. I can sit on the couch and “work”! (The fact that my couch is all of one-and-a-half metres from my desk is irrelevant in this connection, I’m sure.)
I might just have to.
Voice in my head: Thorbjørn Egner as Ole Brumm humming Det snør, det snør, tiddelibom (though it doesn’t just now)