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New Spam

I had gotten some rather blank emails in my spam folder recently (and some not in the spam folder), so I thought I'd check into it...

2008 Taxes

I haven't looked at how much time it took us to do taxes this year - I thought we were doing pretty well, time-wise, until we blew 8...

Jonathan's Understanding of Taxes

We finished our taxes today, and the kids were around while we were doing it, and then we went out to the Olive Garden, since we...

Gardening

 I've been mentioning my garden doings on Serina's blog and in private emails with her, and I thought I'd compile and post the...

News I Forgot to Mention

Speaking of news, I forgot to post here that the closing arguments for Judy's trial are scheduled for tomorrow, and I'll be heading to...

Confused...

Most of you who know me realize that I don't hardly pay any attention to news, and particularly since I started working from home, I...

Arizona Pictures

I guess we haven't written about Arizona yet, so that'll come later, but Heather posted the pictures today, but I hadn't gotten around to...

Faith, 6 months

We skipped the four month appointment because we were in Switzerland, but six months came quickly enough.  At 27.5" long and...

Stuff again

2/10 or earlier - Faith can transfer an item from one hand to the other. 2/10 - Jonathan, studying a penny, "This coin...

Thinking In "Blog"? Nope. But Thinking In Code? Yes.

Some people have been talking about whether they think in blogging, as in: "this is so much fun, I should blog about it",...

Stuff in the Couch

We are missing a movie, and so went looking around the house for it (the boys had all the movies out the other day, lining them up to...

Installing clusterssh on Cygwin

Since I am a lazy Debian user, I am not used to compiling things from source.  (sidenote: It is interesting to me how many people...

Cygwin Update: Stuff Broken

Cygwin is one of the packages that seems to often break when I upgrade it.  In their defense, it is a large collection of...

Recovery Rebate Calculator (AKA, Will the IRS Give Me Any...

The IRS hasn't published their calculator yet, and I have been reading about lots of people trying to figure out what to do with line...

Consumer Reports: Too Many Doctors are Overusing...

I routinely see articles about childbirth and the liability issues, etc. where medical decisions are made for legal reasons, and how...

Happy Birthday to Me

I figured I'd be getting some birthday money from someone, so I went ahead and spent it last week, by buying a handful of CDs from...

House Work on Denny Road

I also have been doing some work on our new house.  This morning we installed new downspouts on the west side of the house - (we...

House Work on Carroll Street

Heather and I spent several days over the last week at our old house, cleaning and fixing various things that our previous tenants...

Fakeable Caller ID

We've gotten two calls in the last couple days from people claiming that we called them, and quite irate about it.  What they didn't...

This One's For Asher

It makes me think of Asher every time. 2009-01-28_05_faith_kick_leg_to_bounce.avi

Stuff

1/23 - Faith's matching lower tooth came in. It looks like she's teething again, maybe some top teeth on their way.  She, like...

Quotes from Jonathan

While looking at a dollar coin, Jonathan said, "I think it has a picture of Obama or something", (really, it's Andrew Jackson)....

$0.01 Credit Card Charge and Cancelling a Card Due to...

Mydad had mentioned a news article story a month ago about some company charging a whole bunch of people $.01 each on their credit...

Switzerland: Back to the USA (12 Jan 2009)

Very early in the morning, we got up, had breakfast and said goodbye to Sarah (all the other Dutlers said goodbye the night before.)...

Health Insurance Issues for the Self-Employed

I thought I had written about this before, but I can't find it, so maybe we just talked about it over email. We purchased...

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