Delayed Gratification

Today is all about delayed gratification, yours and mine.  I must begin with an apology for your delayed gratification in that I made no appearance in these pages over the weekend.  However as it so happened, time and events conspired to preclude just such an occurrence in any timely manner.  I therefore decided to just regroup and begin anew today.  Please understand that my absence from these pages for any length of time is only temporary.  Trust me, your intrepid Uncle will return sooner or later with pithy commentary, political rantings, beautiful music and gorgeous guys. 

I have talked a lot lately of the planned upgrades to my computer and the Nichevo-Xanatos home network.  I know how much my part will cost and Will has his part for which he has budgeted.  Things have been more or less on schedule with that until now.  Unfortunately, my gratification will be somewhat delayed by the fact that I must spend a grunch of money on the car.  In fact, I have spent enough already this week to buy my new computer, but I am not finished with the car yet.  My annual State Inspection was due and I had to get new tires for the front of the car in order to pass along with a minor muffler repair.  The surprise expense was the crack I put in the wheel on the way home from work on Wednesday morning that cost me an extra $125 to fix on top of the cost of the tires.  However they refurbished the entire wheel and it looks like factory new again.  That means I now need to do the others to match and another $375 spent a piece at a time to do that.  Yet even that is not all.

I changed the oil and got the car inspected, so now that is done with for the time being.  However, the noise I thought my electric fan for the cooling system was making turned out not to be the fan at all.  It is the sound of the wheel bearing going out in my front hubs.  Not a problem except that it will cost $617.89 to repair them.  This means of course the $500 I was gathering for the computer must now go for the car and them I can set about gathering for the computer again.  So much delayed gratification there and unfortunately it is also way expensive.  Every time I think that I am actually making financial progress towards my wants, some necessary expense comes up that cannot be avoided.  And whatever it is is undoubtedly gonna be expensive.  Such is the pattern of my life here lately.  C'est la vie!

Now because I did not get around to posting any fabulous live performances over the weekend, both your Monday with Mozart featured selections will be live recordings of marvelous performances.  Posted below you will find Friedrich Gulda's intimate recital performance of Mozart's Piano Sonatas KV 332, 375 and 457 recorded live in Munich in 1990.  Over on my tumblr, you may  join Ricardo Muti and the Orchestra filarmonica della Scala featuring Maurizio Pollini as your Soloist for their 2004 performance of Mozart's Piano Concerto No. 21 in C major, K. 467.

Then to brighten our day we have some beauty to behold in this week's super sexy edition of  Monday's Undies posted down below.  Over on my tumblr, Your Hottie of the Day! has a hoodie and cum hither look that I am sure you will find to your liking.  Thanks for the visit.  I will try not to delay your future gratifications fo too long.  Until next time as always, Enjoy!