Fortunes Pissed Away

"...take a walk upon your bridge, and pitch your money into the Thames over the centre arch of your bridge, and you know the end of it. Serve a friend with it, and you may know the end of it too -- but it's a less pleasant and profitable end."
—Chuck Dickens in Great Expectations

Who knew? When we refied our house to improve it and hired a friend to fix some of the houses problems, only to end up with everything we wanted fixed incomplete and/or worse than it was before...little did I know that everything I needed to know was spelled out perfectly before the Linotype was invented.

We'd have been better off taking the money to those riverboats that aren't really boats (and sometimes aren't even near rivers).