Not knowing Gates' history my gut would guess he sacrificed in the early years by working for no salary to build a company. That is all I could guess though.

She's not Anne Rice.

Are you sure she's not Anne Rice?

I think Warren Buffett would agree with the notion that he's never had to sacrifice anything significant.

Are you sure she's not Anne Rice?

She might be. This is actually hilarious, except for where it's frustrating as hell. Having to fight with authors just slows us down so much.

My prediction: the EIC of the journal will say "Just put it all back the way it was" to placate the authors. And then at issue review, the Executive Managing Editor will find a BUNCH of stuff that should have been changed and will change it, and then the authors will lose their shit again.

Although possibly the Executive Managing Editor will get looped into the discussion before that happens. (Again, SUCH a waste of her time. She has WAY more important things to do than to handhold these whiny princesses.)

Not knowing Gates' history my gut would guess he sacrificed in the early years by working for no salary to build a company.

I think what's missing here is the component of sacrificing for something not you. I'm sure he did without some material comforts, but in the service of his own goal. Nothing wrong with that, admirable even. But I'm not sure it quite fits in this context.

A lovely thunderstorm cell is coming down the valley at us. I don't even care that my car windows are down. It's been weeks since we had real rain and not just enough to splatter the dust on the windows.

But what else is a sacrifice? Can we say that politicians make sacrifices? They get paid, but so do members of the military.

In general I'd equate their sacrifices to those of business people who work long hours at jobs with a lot of responsibility. But once they get prominent on the national stage, Gabi Giffords demonstrates that they're risking horrendous sacrifices for themselves and their families by making themselves targets for crazy people. It is not on the same order of risk as that dared by people who volunteer for combat roles in the military, though, and they get plenty of perks, without having to deal with the long separations from loved ones that many soldiers do.

Timelies all!

In a little while we will drop the little guy off at Gary's dad's place so we can go out to dinner for our anniversary.(12 years. Where does the time go?)

Happy anniversary, Sheryl. Enjoy the celebration.

Not knowing Gates' history my gut would guess he sacrificed in the early years by working for no salary to build a company. That is all I could guess though.

Given that his family was already well-to-do before Microsoft was started, probably not a lot of sacrificing was necessary on his part.

At this point, something's going to snap before we make it to the election. I just don't know if it's going to be my brain, my heart, my sanity, my spirit...