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I got all the tax stuff ready. I even entered it in Turbotax to see what we might be getting, ballpark. With no deductions for business, plus a deduction for my student loan interest that I'm not sure I'm really entitled to (last I heard, you only got that for the first 5 years of paying your loan, but they didn't ask when I started paying it so perhaps that's changed) we may be getting around $500. Now, we're going to pay a tax lay a pile of money to make sure it gets done correctly, and she has been doing business deductions for our float tank. But since hub's become permanently employed and the grove's gotten bigger, we haven't been paying hardly any attention to the tank biz. We're about to pay the thing off finally, and are thinking of just ditching the whole biz entirely. That way we could kill the extra phone line and just float friends at our leisure. But we're going to wait to see if doing this will make a substantial difference in our taxes. I'm just waiting to hear back from her to get the paperwork to her.

To make this post not completely boring, I found out at the Straight Dope that lightning (and every time I see someone spell it 'lightening' I want to throw things) during snow is fairly rare due to things that have to do with humidity and the most favorable conditions for lightning to occur. But it does happen (in Utah more than anywhere else, apparently). And when it does, instead of a thunderstorm, you get... wait for it... thundersnow! Isn't that the best word? It's so contradictory. I think I will also use it as a word to describe when normally quiet cats decide to stampede about the house. "Thundersnow!!!"

This day seems endless.

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Am now officially tired of people who describe their pagan flavor as "I take whatever works for me and don't stick to any One True Way tradition. Why should I be tied down?" This somehow implies that a tradition is going to hog tie face-down on a table, spank you with paddles and pour lemon juice on your paper cuts until you cry, and force you to do things that don't work. Traditions are like a language. Sure you can invent one, look at Esperanto. But if you don't want to mess with that, there are some perfectly nice languages out there you can use. No one will ever insist you use all the words whether you like them or not (e.g. "squishy") but there are rules to how to string the words together. If you ignore them, and it works for you, that's fine too. But if you get mad because other people who use the language don't understand you, then you need to be tied to a table and paddled some more.

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In happier news, Wil Wheaton has written a review of my favoritest video game ever that no one remembers, Make Trax. I am about to cream myself with joy!