I got around to doing my taxes early this year. I really need to increase my number of exemptions, because I am just giving the US government an interest free loan. I was pretty much overpaying my taxes by about $500 a month.

Time to go shopping though :)

Pavan Foods ( Read more... )

a couple days late...

Katie and I spent new years eve skiing with a bunch of friends and my cousin out at Squaw near Lake Tahoe. Several of us had never been before, so we took lessons. After two hours of lessons, I figured I was ready to tackle a slightly longer slope, and managed to flip and wipe out only three times. I didn't break anything, ( Read more... )

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I decided to head up to NYC over the weekend to hang out with liddybird, her friend Melissa, and my cousins. After having tried to use the china town bus several years ago when the bus never even showed up for the trip up, I was a bit skeptical about using it ( Read more... )

anyone start using chrome yet?
I am in the process of downloading it. Figured I would see if anyone has tried it out yet and would like to warn me away from it...

Katie's 30th birthday was last Thursday, so I took her to the Charleston for dinner. The Charleston is one of Tony Forman's restaurants (along with Pazo, Petit Louis, and Cinghiale). Cindy Wolf (Tony's wife) is the head chef at the Charleston.

The menu gives you the option to choose a 3, 4, 5, or 6 course dinner. Once you decide how many courses ( Read more... )

ok, this might be a dumb question, but can anyone explain the weird shoulder pad the female beach volleyball players are wearing?

Last night, I went to Pier 6. First up was Blues Traveler. Even though I am not a big Blues Traveler fan, I still enjoyed the show. It sounded like they did a lot of jamming and improvising which was cool ( Read more... )

My coworker Bill asked me yesterday if I wanted to go down and see the Nationals play the Reds Saturday night. Since I haven't been down to the Nationals stadium yet, I decided why not. I'm not really a fan of either team, but Bill (being from Ohio) is a Reds fan. We never actually made it up to our 400 level seats way in they sky because we found ( Read more... )