30 September 2024
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Well, after spending about 1000 Euros on the repair
of $Car1, yesterday $Car2 (in fact an old car from 
my parents, but we use it mostly) broke down. We are
now really contemplating getting a new car for the
first time in our life.

The thing is: Most of my life i was poor, not the
starving type of poor, but poor enough that i 
mostly drove shitty 500 Euro cars, rode by (not much
better) motorcycle everywhere or used my bicycle.
Now, with my wife and after now having a medium-ok
paying job things changed for the better over the 
last 10 years or so. But the idea of getting a loan
(*gasp*) and spending about 17000 Euros on a car is
something my brain is not used to. I will have to
rewire my brain somehow. I mean, i am 40, i am a 
father of a small child, i am somewhat integrated in
society... why is it bothering me so much to do 
what (almost) everybody else does all the time?

On another topic: I recently started to use nano 
more and more as an editor... and frankly: I really
like it. Its absolutely simple, has sane keybindings,
is blazingly responsive on the Devterm... and even
has built in support for a nice array of programming
languages. Yeah, it somewhat mainstream, somewhat
"boring", but it really works...