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Expensive equpiment?

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Gunnar
on August 28, 2008
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Is expensive equipment worth? Everywhere you turn you have the cheap stuff and the expensive stuff, wether it be screw drivers, golf clubs or pool cues…

But is a $1040 Viking G-85 really that much better than $250 Dufferin D-50 - or do you have to be Efren Reyes to notice  the difference? I know that I wouldn’t… how about you?

One thing that I do know about pool sticks is that the two-piece ones generally is better than the budget single-piece ones, I’m not a good pool player - i don’t have the patience, but I went to high school ;-)

The sticks that the school had bought, you know the as-many-you-can-get-for-as-little-as-possible theorem most institutions use… it didn’t take long for them to get crooked–luckily I had a friend that borrowed me hes cue. Man, between the skewed onces and he’s two-piece… it was like night and day.

Sadly we don’t have a single (public) pool table in this town, I know I’d like to play more… even though I don’t have the patience to get good at it.

Strolling babies

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Gunnar
on August 21, 2008
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Babies cost a lot of money, even before they’re born. A lot of people doesn’t seem to know this. I just thought about this when a friend told me how much strollers cost these days… when we were expecting our son, we bought this package that had a stroller, crib, feeding chair and some toys and stuff like that for about $950, nowadays a brand-spanking new Emmaljunga Edge Duo Combi costs 8695SEK ($1,126.53) - although it’s a lot better than ours but over a grand for a stroller!

My baby isn’t a baby any more

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Gunnar
on August 16, 2008
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I’ve been looking at Polkadot Patch’s baby clothes for a while, thinking about importing a couple of them.

I thought for too long, my son’s too big now to fit in the "toddler" stuff. Even though he’s only 2½ years old, he’s as big as I were when I was 4!

As a sidenote I can tell you that it can be interesting to try and convert European children’s clothe sizes to American - especially when the child in question is about twice the size he’s supposed to be.