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Well we are back from Orlando.

I had a great time.

I am way behind on my RSS feeds.

I will be back when I get caught up.

So guess what I went and did at 3:00 in the morning?

I went out and shoveled snow.

We must have gotten at least 6 inches so far. It was still coming down, but the plow just came by and I wanted to say ahead of the game since a lot more snow it on its way. It is actually a pretty nice night out despite the snow. I didn’t need to wear gloves or a jacket.

Florida is sure going to feel nice on Friday though.

I couldn’t resist it any longer. I signed up for Twitter. You can find my Twitter here. Now you can really stalk me if you want. I plan to post all the little crap that I am thinking there.

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Another thing I did over the weekend was play around with Tumblr. Tumblr is another blogging platform. It is more of a link blog thing. It designed for mainly posting links, pictures, and videos. I am debating weather to use it as my link blog or not. Google makes is so easy to add stuff to my link blog, but everything I add has to be from Google Reader. That’s usually not a problem since I live in Google Reader. Almost everything I read is in Google Reader. If you are looking at starting a link blog you might want to look into Tumblr. Leo Laporte and Merlin Mann both have tumblr blogs if you want to check a few out.

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So it was a boring snowy weekend, but I was very productive. I got 100% caught up on my podcasts for the first time in months, I fixed our running toilet that has been sticking and running for the past couple of weeks, and I bought a labeler and organized the file cabinet. Our file cabinet has been a mess for months and it has been bothering me. I am kind of a neat freak. My desk may look like a mess, but everything is in it’s place. My tools are also all clean and organized, and everything has its drawer. Now that I got a labeler I can start labeling everything and be even more organized. Yeah, I am a freak.

This has been a bad year so far for people dying. I guess it all started with Darrent Williams on New Years Day. Just this week there have been three unexpected deaths in the sports world. First you had Dennis Johnson, then Ladainian Tomlinson’s dad, and now Damien Nash. Nash was the second Bronco to die in three months. Then there is that chick that is all over the news. Who’s next?

Awesome Bowler Picks Up A Ridiculous Two Lane Spare – Click here for funny video clips

So I just got curious how old Wil Wheaton is. Of course I checked Wikipedia. Check it out, Wil is wearing a Tsunami Bomb t-shirt. I wonder if he has check out The Action Design yet? Anyways, he is 3 years older than me. That’s about what I though.

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I finally got around to doing our taxes tonight. I knew we owed so I haven’t been in to much of a hurry. In the past I have used TaxCut, but this year I got Turbo Tax. I like Turbo Tax way better. I bet it only took me 10 minutes to do both federal and state. Using TaxCut there always seemed to be a few questions that made me go hmmm. Turbo Tax seemed way more user friendly. Turbo Tax even imported data from our last years taxes which we used TaxCut for. Another thing I liked about Turbo Tax was that it gave the option to export as pdf. I now have a copy of our taxes on the NAS in a pdf. I wish I had past years in pdf. More pdfs means less file cabinet clutter. That’s another thing I need to get done this weekend. Our filing cabinet is a mess.

Anyways, we only own $630 combined. That’s not so bad. I got the checks written out and everything, but they wont be dropped in the mail until April. Why send it in early?

So the wife can now save us 17% off our cell phone bill through her job. Great, so we went to the Verizon store. Stood in in line for a half hour, filled out the paper work in 15 minutes.

Then they say, “Oh, you got an old plan. You need to upgrade your plan to save the 17%. The new plan would be $!0 more a month.”

So to save $10 a month I have to pay $10 more a month. Nice. No thanks again Verizon.