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Another night vanished into ether.

I guess certain things which I did explain it. We're watching new Doctor Who episodes one day later through the privilege of Amazon Prime rental, so that took up some time today. I think I liked this episode most out of this season so far. Then a house check on D3 led to me doing a pair of uber runs which went very well, so I'm thankful for that much. See wife to bed, get some things set and updated in Torchlight, play songs, and it's close to midnight. ...

I should have taken the cue last night to send out an additional resume submission or two rather than feel compelled to have some sort of game time to cap the night. It really wasn't necessary, though at least I managed to find a friend whom I haven't seen in a while in doing so.

I went to a nearby store to purchase something that I felt a coworker might have wanted to soothe a sore throat, and while in line waiting to make the purchase, I got to hear the banter between two women ...

Now that the tax season is over, I feel that the choices with which I can spend my free time - particularly on work days such as today - are all the more important to question and justify. I'd like to get back to writing ES. I'd like to get back to making more house models with Sketchup for supporting ES, I really did enjoy that. I should probably update onelinetaxcode at the moment. I'd like to get back to developing more non-1040 tax forms to get that software approved. But I have had some kind ...

Save scumming is easy enough to do in Torchlight 2. Have the person wear items that you want to dupe. Make copy of save file. Rename copy. Move both to save subdirectory. Open one copy. Move desired duped items to Share Stash. Delete copy of character from which items were moved. Resume play with other copy. By doing this I have now accumulated enough good items and hacked items that I can bring someone up from start to 100 within a few hours. I think the desire amongst my circle of players is to ...

The early sleep let me get some things done today in proper order at least.

I had a recruiter contact me about a job that only asks about expertise in Word, Excel, and XML. I responded promptly to the mail as well as the subsequent call that the person made, so hopefully that puts me in some sort of prioritized position.

The only negative point to today's song run is that I had an increase to Spark but encountered some bad scratch chords towards the end which didn't ...

The acknowledgement did come in today, so I am relieved.

I had my wife try to play Torchlight with this hacked item (a belt called Mystical ENDGAME) and she was less than impressed. "Doesn't this defeat the purpose of playing?", she asked after first trying it out. I am curious to see if it will have done so for the people who I have played the game with on a regular basis. The assumption seemed to be that we would get all of our characters to Level 100, and then loop to ...

I helped get a tax returned filed before the deadline today - or so I assume at least.

I received all of the details over the phone, and filled out the W2 and 1040 with ease. The client was a dependent student, so it was a simple case. One W2, no personal exemption, standard deduction, fine, done in ten minutes. The actual process of getting the filing finished took more than a half hour, though, as it took a bafflingly long amount of time for the cilent's mother to figure out a usable ...

At the retail job today, I got to help a customer purchase over two hundred 2 Liter bottles of soda. Moving the liquid required three standard carts and an additional special kind of cart which is usually used by employees for stocking purposes. Her total came out to $288. It was a nice way to spend forty minutes being on the job and not wrestling carts outside. However, today's weather made that usual task more pleasant than usual, so if anything it's too bad that I could have had this happen on ...

The new cart machine works. Hooray.

In other store news, I may have been the snitch that causes someone to face stronger discipline. It's been a problem long enough and the issue at hand is something for which he was already disciplined about, so for that and his actions affecting my ability to do my job was enough to push me to do this. I won't hold my breath for anything drastic to happen regardless, as I know that they only fire people as a last resort because of how much effort ...

A new cart machine arrived at the store. I was the person assigned to assemble it, as I had been with the last one that came in. If memory serves me right, I spoke of doing so on a post here. This time, I at least had enough foresight to position the shipment in a spot where I could assemble it without turning the machine on. Tomorrow will be the day when it has its first use with a entire day's worth of charge stored into the batteries. At least I hope so - I'm bracing for someone to have found ...

Started the day by making some grilled cheese for the wife and myself. I think it's the most that I've cooked in weeks. What always makes me laugh is that my mother would always have difficulty in keeping grilled cheese from burning - I think her usual downfall was trying to multitask while it was cooking and not being there quickly enough to flip before it was nearly blackened. I derive the most humor from it because she's a good cook and perfectly capable of making a wide variety of food, but ...

Got my return filed. Federal refund of $275 and state liability of $63. Good enough.

I think after doing all of this work, I have forgotten that my ability to file a Federal return with my own product is still pretty extraordinary. I lose sight of it at times, but compiling my return today felt satisfying.

I also made a trip to another store to meet with the coworker who had the joint liability question which I mentioned yesterday. She said that she heard about my ...

I have to do this research. After I went to the store today to return some completed tax forms to a coworker, she sent a note to my wife's phone which asked if I could contact another coworker.

The story goes that she is separated but not yet divorced, will be unable to pay the amount due with filing MFJ, and can't do MFS due to the loss of a tax credit if she claimed that status. Nothing was sent yet, so she still has some time to make adjustments, but questions of liability need ...

This is the last week of days off from retail work before April 15. I have some things that I need to do before the deadline hits. Specifically, file my own return.

Songs. I've skipped playing Lethal Weapon a few times in the past weeks because of its immense note count, but I finally made a point to play it today. I wonder if it made any impact on how I played for the rest of the night. Running into some charts which get scrambled well on random didn't help matters. Dominion was ...

The purchase was made months ago, and finally, yesterday night was the premier for my wife and I to play Cards Against Humanity. What I didn't foresee (which in hindsight I should have) was that the game didn't work very well with players who do not understand what the cards are saying. Her friend - her female friend - didn't know what "queefing" was, and her fifteen year old son had no idea about "anal beads". If there is one thing which sinks raunchy humor more than prudishness, ...