Object of desire

(The dramatic turn is perfectly OK. Not a problem. )

I find it interesting that the important rings go missing, osso. Like a gorgeous antique sapphire that was my make-shift wedding ring ... then the (later bought wedding ring itself). A pretty deco design. (I have a hunch about the culprit.)
Then, before that, a gorgeous Latvian ring I received for Olga's Day, from my very first real boyfriend. I wouldn't mind so much if it was the insignificant, unloved rings which went missing ... but it's never those, is it?

Olga.. my dear.

Alright. Then how about a time machine? I am longing to take a trip back to the Berlin of the early 1940s, so I can listen to Wilhelm Furtwängler conducting the Berlin Philharmonic. (Conveniently, I'd know Furtwängler was going to survive World War II, so nothing would happen to me during any bombing raids I might encounter.)


Beats me. I guess you'll just have to make one up.

Yes, dear osso?

(I actually meant no offense, Thomas & Robert. Truly sorry if I you feel offended.)



That is a commendable desire, Thomas!

(Not to worry about explaining the meaning of life.)

That was a hug type comment.

So was mine to you.

I want to buy a trip for two to Australia. I will not be going on this trip. It would be a trip for my parents. All my life all i have ever heard my mother talk about is going there and seeing the sights. Going "down under" and living a dream.

I won't be able to give them this now. The way my father is aging, he wouldn't go on the trip. Makes me sad to know my mom won't be able to achieve one of her dreams.

No offense taken at all!

An old Coast Guard patrol boat, WPB 82, "Point" class, to refurbish.

That's good to know, Thomas.
(Having a bit of a weird, getting-wires-crossed communication day today. )

George, I'm honestly not clear on what you just meant by that post. Could you tell us a wee bit more, please?

I thinketh he wants one of these to refurbish and clean up in some kind of do it yourself restoration project:

Thank you, tsar. Rather a big job!

And do you have an object of desire, yourself?

I would love to own and run an independent art house cinema to be placed in say Pittsburgh (a culturally underserved city).

Ah. What a wish, tsar!
You would be absolutely perfect in that capacity.

... in fact i can't figure out how come you're not already doing something like this. On a smaller scale, for starters maybe, given finances & all ....

I would like to own an early 19th century brig, which is to say, a vessel with two masts, square-rigged. Then, of course, i'd need a couple of million to hire a crew and provision the vessel in order to sail off to my doom.

That sounded so good, Setanta, till you mentioned sailing off to your "doom".

Wanna change that last bit, while you have time to do it?

Not at all, but the stuff I most want right now is a bit more intangible. I don't really want a car and house etc, as that just pins me down somewhere. I want the time, money and resources (often human) to build cool stuff.

The stuff I dream about owning are things like companies (Google, Yahoo, Microsoft, Apple), or infrastructure (fiber lines, datacenters), or services (bandwidth, SaS), patent portfolios (tech companies hoard these and they can be powerful), and man hours (time, human resources) so that I can build some of the things I dream about.

So I guess I really want the world's leading search engine, biggest website stuff like that. Does that count as an object?

If not, the object I most want I guess would be a big boat to live on. It's kinda like a house but kinda mobile. Thing is, it's a depreciating asset, requires maintenance, I don't like being on a boat all the time.....

Ok, I want Google. That is my final answer.