So I can never figure this one out.

You overpay your state taxes.

They send you a refund.

The next year, you pay taxes to the Federal Government on that refund.

eh?

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I’m sick of those referral spams so they are going directly to be “permantely deleted” by outlook. So if you want to get an email to me, don’t put that word in the subject.

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This is spinning around the blogs right now. Joe Jackson – one of my faves during college and beyond – he definitely elevates William Shatner a few notches. So let’s see hwo’s next? William Shatner and Elvis Costello. William Shatner and David Byrne. William Shatner and David Bowie. 🙂

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wonkette.com posts a great picture of a tax payment on the way to the government

Maybe they should have one from Vermont that puts the word “married” at the start…

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Now that Omar has turned me on to the perfect earphones for flying, I think it’s time to buy either an MP3 or IPOD. I want to listen to dotNetRocks of course, maybe some podcasts and some of my own music cd’s. If you know that I’m a Libra, you know how hard it is for me to make decisions. Feel free to comment! 🙂

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My dear friend and college roommate was highly impacted by Hunter S. Thompson’s work when we were in college — I believe even writing one of her two senior theses (she was a double major – my brilliant friend 🙂 ) on something that involved reading a lot of his work. She went on to do her post graduate work at Medill School of Journalism and is, of course, a journalist who I know will someday get a Pulitzer!

Of course I thought of her immediately this morning when I read that Thompson had killed himself. I thought that my friend’s reply was a nice tribute in her journalistic shorthand…

i can’t blv he did it. i always admired him and thought of him as an icon but only in last couple years  did i come to totally appreciate and read a lot of his stuff. i wanted to have a beer with him at woody creek tavern but i guess that won’t be happening…

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Isn’t that the way Hallmark worked it out?

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For Christmas, I got my hubby a 4-month membership in this great beer of the month club. I have given him this in the past. Who knows, it might have helped provoke him to propose to me! They send awesome beer from microbrews all over the u.s. that you might never have heard of. The first one arrived today. I laughed my ass off when I opened it up. It contained 6 bottles of  Wolavers beer which is made by Otter Creek brewery in Middlebury – 25 miles from our house. Wolavers is also currently Rich’s favorite – he just loves their Wit Beer which was a special release. The other beer selection  was from Michigan’s Arcadia Brewing Company. Of course it’s all a big lead up to the Vermont Brewer’s Fest this summer. I drive. Rich drinks. You can get pretty goofy on ten 3-oz samples!

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Almost every year, someone gives me a wall calendar of newfies. This is a calendar you can buy at any of those calendar kiosks in the malls around the country. They are made from stock photos. What is funny about the calendars though is that every year there is at least one a dog that was bred by my parents in there.

This year it is Sequoia. If you look at the last picture on this calendar’s back cover, you can see it was from the same series of shutter clicks as this picture on my parent’s website.

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It is sunny out with fresh snow. I promised myslef that if the temp went above 10F I would hop in the car and go over to Mad River to do a few runs after lunch. I have not skiid ONCE this year even though I bought a ski pass, even though we moved to Vermont to ski, even though we bought a house only 7 miles from MRG just so we could go there easily. It’s 9 degrees. Too cold. Keep working. Will I ever ski again?

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