so, if you are cooking pasta and decide, ‘hey, in addition to the salt in the water to add some flavour I’ll throw in some black pepper to give a little more kick!”… yeah, it aerosolizes it. my apartment now kind of smells like pepper spray, and my throat wants to know what the fuck I just did to the air. in any case, i bet it’ll be tasty when it’s all said and done.
so I have a real salary. part of this is of course maintaining some kind of savings. I’ll be the first to admit that I’ve never really been that good at that. so I went and opened a TFSA and have accounts where money is taken out of my main one automatically and if I forget all about them, then they’ll just kind of fill up on their own. that being said, with a steady income and being careful with my money (or at least better…. ish…) I’ve been thinking about what kinds of things I’ll be able to buy that I never really had the chance to in school. cause, you know, school was mostly rent and beer and food and beer.
so here is my list of things that I plan on saving up for this year:
the Osprey Aether 70 backpack. because i’ve never had a real hiking pack and it would be helpful and useful to have given the new tent and sleeping bag. also, next fall I want to go to Nepal. gonna need something to carry things.
the MSR WindPro backpacking stove. I’m not a fan of LPG stoves, I am a fan of canister stoves. small, powerful, spent a lot of time looking at stoves and this one consistently gets good reviews. can’t really beat that for $80.
the Snow Peak Giga ultralight canister stove. there are enough places close enough for me to do an overnight where all I’d really need is a pocket sized stove and one can of fuel to heat some food and some tea. again, gets stellar reviews and only costs $40.
the Nemo GoGo LE. yeah, I have an MSR Hubba Hubba, but this isn’t really a tent, it’s a bivy. it’s an ultralight one person shelter if i go on an overnight and don’t want to haul a bigger tent around with me. plus it only weighs a kilo.
I think that’s about it for camping/hiking gear, and I probably wouldn’t even get the Nemo until next year anyway. space and weight saver for nepal. the only thing I have left is something i want to get myself for christmas 2010. i never got myself anything this time around, and what with this coming christmas being the first one i’ll have spent after almost a year and a half of real employment I figure I might as well get myself something nice.
these are probably the coolest skates I’ve seen: Riedell Model 911 Jammer skates. ok, not jammer in the roller derby sense, they’re technically jam skates but throw on some pirate skull hockey tape on the toe, a derby toe stop and some Atom Lowboys and they’d be some sweet fucking ref skates. of all the things I’ve listed here, these skates are the most expensive. but it’s something to plan for. some people collect spoons, I’ve decided to save up for these. which is odd, cause if you’d have asked me what I was planning on saving for this time last year I would have probably immediately responded with this:
drooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooool
Cherry Red Gibson ES-335 with nickel plated humbuckers. fuck. yes. but much like the Tacoma and Nikon D700, this has been pushed back to longer term plans.
still, gives me something to look forward to at some point in life.
Great, now I want a new backpack.