Wow, it only took me 3 HOURS to do my taxes. However, that's really not that bad, considering I did it all by myself AND I had to go through a bunch of weirdness relating to a sole-proprietorship business. As it turns out, I got screwed this year because although I had automatic withholdings on my offical job salary, I had NO withholdings on my ( Read more... )

Ok. I finally watched Napoleon Dynamite today. I must say, the plot was awfully hard to figure out. It's kind of missing. But I guess, since everyone is happy in the end, there is at least some resolution, even if there is no plot. Now at least I can fully appreciate, as much as that's possible, all the movie references that my bosses are ( Read more... )

I'm going to bed early tonight (11pm, ha!) because we're supposed to spend 4 hours cleaning up the garage tomorrow, starting at 8am. That should be fun, in that special sadistic way that isn't actually fun at all. :-p No, not really. It shouldn't be too bad. It's cool to look at an end product, too. Also, both parents are in a rather ( Read more... )

Hmm...this lady can't hit all of her notes. Most of them, but not all of them ( Read more... )

The derivative of a sum is the sum of the derivatives, and the derivative of a difference is the difference of the derivatives. The derivative of c times a function is c times the derivative of the function.Ok. Tell me whether that makes any sense to you. If you actually read it and break it apart piece by piece, you would look at it again and ( Read more... )

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I'm at my aunt's house, where we have been visiting with my cousin from Texas for the past few hours. I'll be staying the night, because it means less driving, because she lives closer to where I work than I do. All of us had fun at our own expense by singing some kareoke songs with a $300 microphone my uncle brought. It basically has about 800 ( Read more... )

It's almost 1am. I'm sitting in my comfy chair in the office, working on school scheduling (entering detailed stuff into my PDA from the class syllabus info) and programming and listening to Jimmy Eat World. Who needs sleep? Seriously. I could probably keep going for another few hours with a bit of coffee. But then, I suppose I'd be completely ( Read more... )

Last night, I went with my mom to a concert. Yeah, I know that sounds kind of weird. It wasn't that kind of concert. It was...more of a symphony. It was also an opera, at times. We got the tickets for free from some friends who couldn't go, so they offered them to us at the last minute. I've been to a symphonic concert once before, and I ( Read more... )

I am now officially poking around on Newegg to configure a new system for dad. I've been waiting for this Norton scan (of ONE directory for crying out loud) to finish for upwards of 20 minutes. Things take 2 minutes (literally...it's a DDE issue) to open when you click on their icons. The hard drive is only 20GB. The system is probably nearly ( Read more... )