I struggled to graduate, for various reasons. When I called up to get my grades for what turned out to be my last semester (in those days, you used a touch-tone phone to get a robo-voice to tell you your grades, if you didn't want to wait for them to be mailed to you) I was somewhat surprised by how well I had done, and then realized that I had ( Read more... )

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Animated map of earthquakes hitting Japan, since Friday, 11 Mar 11: JapanQuakeMap.com

Damn, I can't remember whether or not I have anti-freeze in the DRZ.

Oh well. Hope I do.

It would appear that the IRS finally took the money I've been trying to give it.

(Which means that for 2011 I can make quarterly payments via EFT--the real purpose of the exercise at this point.)

Success involves doing something difficult. Or, at least, something that's difficult for you. (I think there's a bit in Vonnegut's "Deadeye Dick" along the same lines.) The things that are easy for you, the things you really enjoy doing, won't bring you success (by themselves).

The trick, presumably, is to:

• Identify which difficult things will ( Read more... )

Greater New Orleans is split between Orleans and Jefferson parish ( Read more... )

1. Sign up to make Electronic payments to the IRS. (EFTPS ( Read more... )

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