First, since I know my parents read this thing: Happy Mothers’ Day, mom. I love you and miss you. I’ll probably ramble about how awesome my mom is in a bit…
But before that, I should say that I came this close to purchasing a 1 TB network drive yesterday. It was pretty and shiny and right there. And $500. So, instead I walked away with a 250 GB USB drive at a much more reasonable price. A couple of years ago I had a pretty simple rubric: a good price on a hard drive was $0.50 per GB. Based on my wandering around Best Buy it looks like that’s going to need to change. I think that $0.40 per GB is getting standard, which means a good deal is going to be closer to $0.30 per GB. Which… wow… Data storage is virtually free these days. That’s $1.50~$2.00 to store a DVD. And it’s only going to get cheaper, which I think is awesome.
Anyway, back to my mom.
It’s hard for me to articulate sometimes just what it is I appreciate about her (or my father, really). I think part of it is due to the incredible degree of influence they’ve both had on my life. I’ve always seen my parents as the sort of people I want to be in a lot of ways. Not all ways of course, but in the vast majority of things they’re the first people I look to when I consider the sort of person I want to be.
I feel incredibly lucky to have them both. They’re awesome people, and I don’t know if I say that often enough.
Thomas