Stuff I want

So, generally speaking, Stuff that I Want comes in two categories: Stuff that is expensive enough that I'm never going to get it -- luxury submarines, private islands (hey! There's one for sale outside of Situate for only $800,000! It's three acres of marshland, with two acres being theoretically solid enough to put a building on. . . even so, that's a pretty good price for Massachusetts); and stuff that I actually can afford and can get, like books, and bartending supplies, and stuff.

There aren't often very many things that are in the in-between range. I mean, when I was sixteen, I got my guitar for about a thousand dollars, and have used it ever since. I don't really consider it a "luxury", per se, because I also use it for work. Computers are in that in-between range, but, the way that Lis and I live, they're also only partially luxuries.

I found something else in that in-between range -- too expensive to just buy, not expensive enough to be something to just joke about. And it's even close enough to my profession that it could be tax-deductible.

It's the Flairco Portable Bar. 66 pounds in weight, folds up to about the size of a carry-on suitcase, and sets up in five minutes. And costs over sixteen hundred dollars.

I so don't need this thing. It's totally useless to me at my current level of employment. Right now, I'm gigging, working for agencies, who contract me out to caterers for specific functions.

See, the way it works is that the staffing company has a license allowing their employees to serve drinks. The caterer doesn't have that license, so they hire from the drink staffing company.

In order to make it worthwhile to buy the thing, I'd need to set up business as an individual bartender, getting an individual bartender license.

I don't think that such a license exists in Massachusetts. . . .