Bah.  So much for free filing of state taxes in Virginia.  The state just passed a law so that online tax filing will be handled by private businesses ( Read more... )

The barn was 'closed' on Sunday for Easter, which pretty much just means that there were no guided trail rides.  That meant a pretty light work day for me.  Aside from me, the only other people there most of the day were Carla, who is a regular rider and trail guide, and Zack, who, although young, works at the barn a few weeknights, is a trail ( Read more... )

For finally releasing an Android app that justifies the purchase of my phone:

I just hopped over to wtop.com to check the local news during a little break from work.  Skimming through the local headlines I came across the entry "Some Schools Close" with a picture of a snowblower.  Oookay.  That got my attention, so I followed the link to the article ( Read more... )

There were Coke bottles with yellow caps at Wegman's yesterday.  I picked up a couple.  Heck, I may go back to get a couple more to stock up and have a stash that'll last a little while.

And now Fess Parker died.  I suspect that not too many people recognize his name since his acting career kinda preceded the 70s, but dang if his winery didn't make some fairly good wines.  They even had a raccoon on the label.

As stressful and uncertain as things are at work right now, at least I got to say the following during a conference call/web meeting today:

"From now on, all drum sets will only be loaded onto hovercraft."

I just heard that Peter Graves died.

Earlier this week at work, I was tasked with disassembling/destroying a few old phones.  They were obsolete units and needed to have certain boards pulled from them to send off to the gov't.  On Wednesday I got to do the same to an old G3 Powerbook ( Read more... )

Yet another series that shouldn't be remade and 'updated.'

http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE62010I20100301?type=entertainmentNews