Spike ,'Get It Done'
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, pandas, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Sorry, but I have to gloat.
Last week I did our taxes with Turbo Tax online.
Today the federal refund hit the bank account.
I'm in love and will not be doing the taxes by hand ever again. Idiot me never thought to subtract the 401k deductions until the program said, "Oh, you can use this!" Doi!
There is additional glee, because the disability just paid for its years of frustration by erasing Hubby's decades-old student loan, which has denied us a federal refund for said decades. Whee!
These are by far the most bizarre cookies ever, and that is before all the weird shit I threw in them. The dough is just too dense to be believed. The water content in my brown sugar was pretty pathetic, but still.
I'm making lime and white chocolate cookies, half with pistachios and half with chile lime cashews. I have no idea how this will end.
I've still got to start cleaning, but not until the baking is done. Don't know if I'm getting to dyeing hair tonight..
Shoulda used more lime, but you can still taste it.
subtract the 401k deductions
Wait, what? I used TT a couple years ago, and I don't recall this.
Possible Headline o' The Day:
Mary Robbins' Family Battling Cryogenic Freezing Organization Over Rights To Her Head
Y'all, I need a weekend for my weekend. OK, plugging in the damnde vacuum.
ugh, I need to get more things ready for tomorrow: lay out clothes, pack mac's snack, make my lunch, mark a few more places paint needs fixing and clean out the bathroom. don't wanna.
I'm just gonna quote the beginning of this PZ post:
Renew America, the bizarrely, deeply, weirdly conservative web site founded by Alan Keyes, really had to struggle to find someone crazier than Pastor Grant Swank and Fred Hutchison and Bryan Fischer and Wes Vernon (let alone Alan Keyes himself), but they have succeeded. They have Linda Kimball writing for them. She has written the strangest history of evolutionary biology ever — I think she was stoned out of her mind and hallucinating when she made this one up. It's called "Evolutionism: the dying West's science of magic and madness". The title alone is enough to hint at the weirdness within, but just wait until you read where evolution comes from.
Though taught under the guise of empirical science, naturalistic evolution is really a spiritual concept whose taproot stretches back to the dawn of history. It was then, reports ancient Jewish historian Josephus, that Nimrod (Amraphel in the Old Testament) used terror and force to turn the people away from God and toward the worship of irrational nature. Moving forward in time to the Greco-Roman world, evolution serves as the mechanism of soul-transference in metempsychosis and transmigration of souls. In the ancient East, the mystical Upanishads refine evolution and it becomes the mechanism of soul-movement in involutions, emergences, incarnations, and reincarnation. In that both rationalist/materialist/secularism and its' counterpart Eastern/occult pantheism are modernized nature pseudo-religions, it comes as no surprise that evolution serves as their 'creation mythos'.
93-year-old woman died last week, leaving somewhere around 2000 living descendants. [link]
Flickr is down for me. Anyone else having the same problem?
eta: ...and it's working again. Whew.