2001-03-27 - 3:49 p.m.

Temptation

Many of you have heard "Woke Up This Morning", the opening theme for _The Sopranos_. The band that sings it goes by the name of Alabama 3, and their album _Exile on ColdHarbour Lane_ is one weird puppy. There's a song on it, whose name I cannot recall, that discusses the evil grip of temptation and prescribes a hit of socialism, straight to the mainline.

For those of you who may be worried, no, I am not digging the socialism fix.

But temptation does have a hold on me, oh yes. Not the temptations of the flesh, for though the world is full of fine hotties, my woman fulfills my needs in that regard. No, I'm talking about the material goods. I'm talking about money.

This whole internet gig offers amazing rewards to people like me. Geeks of my generation can go from college to very successful employment in a couple of years. People in my dad's generation might have been better able to afford houses due to lower property values, but in pretty much every other way people like me have it made.

Of course, I hate my job. So do most of my friends. But we keep laboring after this internet nonsense because the money is just too good to turn down. What good is waking up eager to work each day if it means you can't have spiffy computers, hand-crafted weapons, and THX-certified home theater?

Now that I've written that question, it looks silly, doesn't it? It ought to be better to wake up happy. But as I said when I started today, temptation has a hold on me.

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