http://www.weirdbook.org/ A blog experiment by Brad Mills. en-usThu, 11 Mar 2010 19:31:33 -0500Thu, 11 Mar 2010 19:31:33 -0500http://www.weirdbook.org/2010-03-11-some-blog-housekeeping Hiya. Just a couple of updates to the blog I'd like to point out. These weren't really time-consuming or anything, and in fact, I've been playing with this slightly new look locally for awhile trying to decide if I liked it or not. I decided I did. Thu, 11 Mar 2010 19:31:33 -0500http://www.weirdbook.org/2010-03-11-some-blog-housekeepinghttp://www.weirdbook.org/2010-03-11-some-blog-housekeeping#commentshttp://www.weirdbook.org/2010-03-06-the-taxman-cometh I've done my own taxes for 22 years — a majority of them as part of a couple. There are lots of reasons I do them myself instead of using software or a tax preparer. Most of these reasons boil down to points of pride, but there are a few practical points there as well, cost being one of them. Why should I pay money to use a software package when part of my own tax dollars are spent to create, print, and mail the forms, not to mention employ the people manning the IRS hotline for my benefit? Why should I pay someone else to read and interpret the instructions on the forms for me when I'm perfectly capable of doing so myself? Why should I pay some random tax preparation office to transmit my tax form electronically when I can just as easily slap a stamp on it and drop it in the mail? Sat, 06 Mar 2010 19:27:26 -0500http://www.weirdbook.org/2010-03-06-the-taxman-comethhttp://www.weirdbook.org/2010-03-06-the-taxman-cometh#commentshttp://www.weirdbook.org/2010-02-28-a-day-without-snow A rare weekend day without snow brought people out in droves to shop, run around, and shake off the cabin fever which has inflicted everyone for the last several weeks. That includes us. We started with lunch at McDonald's (even me, which is rare — Mickey D's normally makes me physically ill, no exaggeration) and we finished the day with a grocery cart piled high. Sun, 28 Feb 2010 23:28:06 -0500http://www.weirdbook.org/2010-02-28-a-day-without-snowhttp://www.weirdbook.org/2010-02-28-a-day-without-snow#comments