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Taxes

Whew... For some reason, taxes took longer than they have in other years. Part of the time was spent trying to get out of a federal tax penalty for not calculating the estimated taxes correctly. We spent 14.63 hours (courtesy of worklog ), mostly together working on them. I... (More)

Posted by jondaley on February 7, 2008, 12:47 pm
Category: General

Christmas/Vacation/Home Again

Can I condense three weeks of activities into one post? We'll see how it turns out. One thing we discovered at Christmastime is that Noah loves cocktail sauce. He just dipped his finger in and licked it off, licked the bowl clean and wanted more! We had Christmas at... (More)

Posted by joyful on January 16, 2008, 8:45 am
Category: General, Jonathan, Noah

Random Stuff

Just when I thought I was a geek, the bar is raised... I forgot to post this a while ago: Tim Hawkins and the "homeschool family". Prairie Home Sausage is kind of funny - and has a picture of a really neat merry-go-round. Lastly, being... (More)

Posted by jondaley on January 7, 2008, 2:50 pm
Category: General

Christmas Present from Verizon

For some reason, Verizon thought it would be a good idea to reconfigure their network early morning Christmas Eve (or late the night before, I am not sure which). Unfortunately, they transferred me to a broken gateway, which has 3 minutes outages every fifteen minutes or so.... (More)

Posted by jondaley on December 26, 2007, 11:47 am
Category: Internet

Fun with Spam

I have been getting a bunch of spam through my contact form over the last couple of days, so I thought I would check out what they are trying to do. The domain's contact information is protected by privacyprotect.org, so we can't know who they are, though I filled out a form showing... (More)

Posted by jondaley on December 13, 2007, 9:53 am
Category: Programming

Spelling, Counting, Play and More

11/28 - Sanda has been teaching us Romanian, and one day Jonathan was asking what various random words were. We thought he said, "walk" and Sanda hesitated because it's a verb, so when she asked him to clarify (I walk, you walk, she walks?) he said, "No! Not 'walk' with a... (More)

Posted by joyful on December 12, 2007, 2:20 pm
Category: Jonathan, Noah

Do Not Call Lists

We have been getting more and more sales calls lately. I try to take the time to report them to the do not call lists, both for our state and for the country. We are supposed to get $100 for each violation (where the caller pays $1000). But, I haven't ever gotten any money.... (More)

Posted by jondaley on December 10, 2007, 4:20 pm
Category: Reviews

I'm Sorry, Your Product is Obsolete

This is what the HP technical support person said to me when I called about our printer. Our faithful HP LaserJet 6L, which was manufactured 10.5 years ago, and given to us 6(7?) years ago. It printed Mom's boarding pass just fine, and then one day later, all three indicator lights... (More)

Posted by joyful on December 3, 2007, 3:50 pm
Category: General

30 Day Organizational Challenge

My friends Bonnie and Liz participated in the last Challenge, and quite intimidated me by doing so. But I put OrgJunkie's blog in my reader (one of only three strangers' blogs I read) and have slowly been gaining confidence. The real enouragement I give myself is to note what... (More)

Posted by joyful on November 2, 2007, 4:26 pm
Category: General

Canadian Thanksgiving 2007

We headed out Friday morning, listening to The Nutmeg of Consolation by Patrick O'Brian on the way. At our first stop, for gas, Jon realized that he hadn't brought his wallet. One of our stops was at our "usual" rest area, the one with the pedestrian walkways over the... (More)

Posted by joyful on October 12, 2007, 2:47 pm
Category: General

Fairly Mindless Entertainment

This game would be better if it were random, but still kind of fun. I think 17 seconds was my high score on my desktop, and I just it again before posting on my laptop, and I only got to 11 seconds. Perhaps I am just more tired, or else it might be showing the difference between a... (More)

Posted by jondaley on October 11, 2007, 7:34 pm
Category: Internet

Anti-spam tool for Web Forms

I got a couple spams through my Lime Daley contact form the last couple days, so I took another look at the script that I was using. I wrote it a year or two ago, and was my first attempt at writing an anti-spam tool that was designed to have a 0% false negative rate (ie. humans can't... (More)

Posted by jondaley on October 4, 2007, 8:36 am
Category: Internet, Reviews

Kill-A-Watt

Peter was nice enough to loan me a Kill-A-Watt for a couple weeks to investigate power usage around our home. I have thought about buying one before, but borrowing one is certainly better, though it is quite a bit of fun to test out devices to see how much power they use. I... (More)

Posted by jondaley on September 25, 2007, 8:25 pm
Category: Reviews

American History

I am sorry to report that I am below average, when compared to college and high school seniors in the United States with regard to knowledge of history. Here is a quiz to see how you do . (More)

Posted by jondaley on September 25, 2007, 11:40 am
Category: Reviews

Organizing for your Brain Type

Here is a brief review of Organizing for your Brain Type by Lanna Nakone . This is a neat book that gives some explanation about why some people have trouble keeping things organized and why some have trouble understanding those others. She puts people in four different groups,... (More)

Posted by joyful on September 22, 2007, 1:20 pm
Category: Reviews