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Cha-Ching
My fed tax refund was direct deposited to my account Thursday, I think it was. Either way, it's there and it's good. That, combined with the fact that I've got a new job which I'll be starting after this next week, I'm all financially stable again. Whew... I feel better already, especially after I was hit with both my homeowner's insurance and ( Read more... ) -
Close Call
I got email last night that my federal tax e-file was rejected, and the reason was that my adjusted gross income for the year before didn't match. I figured this was because even though they finally accepted my return last year after the ID fraud, they hadn't changed it. Ugh. So I called them up, sat on hold for a while, talked to a pleasant ( Read more... ) -
Taxes To The Rescue
I got my other W-2 today, so I quickly brought up TurboTax and raced through the filing. Last year, when some asshat filed with my SSN, they did it in late January, so I was just hoping I could get it in sooner than them trying it again (I wonder what happened to that guy, if they caught him, or what ( Read more... ) -
Jury Duty
Grr. I was called up for jury duty today. This wouldn't have normally been a really terrible thing, except that I wasn't called until last minute. Last night, at close of business, that's when you call in (or check the web) to see if you're going to be needed the next day. My result was "You're on call." Which means I don't find out until 11: ( Read more... ) -
Comcast Needs To Be Taken Out Back And Shot
8am, January 20th, 2009, one of the biggest events in my lifetime is happening -- the inauguration of the first black President of the United States -- and my cable TV and internet are both out. Jules and I were all prepared to wake up (early, because we're on the west coast) to watch the ceremony together with nice pastries and fresh coffee, and ( Read more... ) -
One Week From Now...
One week from now, will be the first time we wake up to an Obama presidency.
Also, may be when I wake up early to go to jury duty... :P (But I won't know for sure until Tuesday night... bleah) -
Did You Ever Notice...
The four cardinal directions, each English, have the same number of letters as their opposite, and share the last two letters of their opposite?
North/South -- both 5 letters, both end in "TH"
East/West -- both 4 letters, both end in "ST" -
I Guess I'll Learn Java After All...
There are going to be two dominant mobile phone platforms by the end of 2009: The iPhone, which has already dominated Microsoft's lame mobile OS in its first full year of distribution (despite the fact WinMo was around for SEVERAL years), and Android, the open sourced phone OS that Google's developed ( Read more... ) -
Happy New Goodyears
I don't really recognize New Years' much. I usually use it as an excuse to stay up late, but rarely do anything about it. This year, I ended up playing Fallout 3 on the XBox until about 2am. Maybe if I wasn't so engrossed, I'd've actually flipped over to a local channel at midnight and watched some craziness, but I was busy taking potshots at ( Read more... ) -
Cellphone Anxiety
I've been using an HTC sliding Windows Mobile cellphone for the last two years, at least. I originally "inherited one" from llamaeyes, which I grabbed primarily because I could put PuTTY SSH on it, and that would allow me to connect to a server and do some simple management through the shell in a pinch. When I started the job I had for the past year or so ( Read more... )