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Apologies…

admin — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 20:07:51 +0000

Apparently someone’s been sending out rather nasty & tasteless emails with my domain name attached to them.

Rest assured, they are not me, and & did not approve them.

Email spoofing isn’t all that difficult, it’s a nasty, horrible thing, but people do it all the time. My rocketdiary.com site had the same problems a few years back.

All I have to say is “blah.”

It’s Tax Time!

admin — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 17:56:37 +0000

Whee.

Shall I expand on how enthusiastic I am?

At least my sister-in-law does our taxes for free, but she needs us to come in before the end of the week.

I have a year’s worth of invoices, sales tax receipts, expenses and junk to wade through – TONIGHT. Why don’t I just keep track of it during the year like a conscientious business person? Right – I’m a big scatterbrained goof who always puts things off ’till the last minute.

It’s already 4 months into the new year and although I’ve resolved to keep track of everything better than I did last year, I have yet to implement a system beyond a big plastic shoebox for receipts.

Perhaps this is the week I finally get myself organized…

perhaps…

If you’re feeling particularly generous, you can help pay my 2008 tax bill. Buy something here or order a custom journal. As a thank you for reading this blog, I’m offering 5% off every order from now ’till April 14th (including custom orders). Just mention the code “IHateTaxes” in the notes to seller field or your custom order form.

*Photo by Steve Woods

Not binding books for a while (if you’re squeamish, skip this post)

admin — Sun, 09 Mar 2008 23:08:58 +0000

I Twittered earlier “Knife:1. Finger:0. Ow.” Indeed. I’ll spare you the photo although I was tempted to post one for an awe-inducing visual, but I sliced my finger with my brand new J. A. Henckels Santoku knife while cutting mushrooms for a pasta-less veggie lasagne (firefox insists it’s “lasagna” but it doesn’t look right to me). I ended up with a lovely chunk of skin flapping on the top of my thumb.

My family owned restaurants when I was growing up and Dad always sliced his fingers this way. Most of the time if the skin was still attached he’d slap it back and bandage it up well enough and keep working. He even took huge slice off the side of his index finger once – completely removed – dug through whatever he was chopping and found the missing piece. He cleaned the cut finger & slice thoroughly, stuck it back to his finger, wrapped it well with bandages and kept on working.

I figured since I didn’t completely cut off the tip of my thumb that I’d just do what my dad would, cleaned the cut and wrapped it up really tight with a bandage. I didn’t feel like waiting 8 hours in the emergency room so the doctor could do exactly what I did to my thumb.

You never really know how handy opposable thumbs are when you lose the use of one of them.

Ow.