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  1. LB log - 20131227

    It's 950AM and I set the coffee machine up in the breakroom to make a new pot while I walk to the front of the store and see my wife off to lunch. I manage to catch her just before she leaves, then return to the breakroom to have my coffee. When I get back, I hear two women inside complaining about how strong the coffee is, with one concluding in saying that there's just some people out there who like it so strong. I guess I need to tone it down a bit.

    In other work news, the hour ...
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  2. LB log - 20131226

    We watched the Doctor Who end of 11 Christmas special and neither me or my wife were particularly impressed with much of any of it. The single word which she used to describe the episode, and I have to agree with, is "lame". It's rather odd how the 50th Anniversary episode was something we felt was rather good, only for this episode to be subsequently aired.

    I've had Diablo 3 on PS3 for six days. As of last night, my Wizard has already reached 60 and a few paragon levels, ...
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  3. LB log - 20131225

    New speakers are set up and function very well. Finally, we can view and play stuff on that TV at a reasonable volume without having it crackle and pop like breakfast cereal.

    The D3 binge continues. It should be over once my one friend is back in school.

    Songs were rather good today, yet again thankfully. What's interesting is that 隠蓑之坊 is the only song which I passed. Everything else was pain. That's a good thing, at least while I don't ...
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  4. LB log - 20131224

    Christmas Eve family gathering has come and gone, about as expected.

    Time to get more D3 in.

    Songs. I had a few shots of Rumple Minze a few hours before play, so perhaps that affected my ability to time any of the charts with lighter note counts. That or I just decided to have a lack of focus on easier charts today. Whatever. Perhaps it's more interesting that I did seem to step my play up the most on the busiest songs that came up today.

    Lunar Beat. ...
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  5. LB log - 20131223

    Time to meet up with my friend on the game. Christmas vacation has come just in time.

    Songs were excellent today, presumably because I had an overriding pressure to be done with them in a timely manner. Many of the increases came with strong openings then holding steady in comparison to the previous record for the rest of the song.

    Lunar Beat. Extra Mode. Double play. "@" denotes Random chart modifier. All songs are of highest difficulty type unless specified. ...
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  6. LB log - 20131222

    Still no response from the IRS, not even an automated receipt response. I need to resume work on the other remaining returns and hope that the #4 scenario that I'm having an issue with remains the only one that has a problem which needs assistance.

    Songs were overall excellent today. It's rather strange that if I had simply elected to not play Rest My Mind, the worst score I would have had was with Shox at nearly -4% off of record. How I got -11% on that play is mostly inexplicable, ...
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  7. LB log - 20131221

    It's 11PM again? How does this happen.

    Today's free time discovery that I have made is that following the Scooter Brother around in GTA5 doesn't eventually lead to anything happening. Also, police cars apparently know if you fire a stun gun at them.

    To answer the initial question, and since I'll probably have a need to discuss it extensively at some point in the future so I'll just put this out here now - I have purchased PS3 Diablo 3 and my wife and I are currently ...
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  8. LB log - 20131220

    I seem to be stopped dead in my tracks of progressing through the Form 1040 tests. Test Scenario 4 requires the filing of the new Form 8960, and the tax is then reported on Line 60 of Form 1040. Doing this requires a few lines of information to tell the parser that the documents are there and to look for this certain additional tax value. Long story short and code abstracts cut, it would appear that I have everything in its proper place and amount, yet I'm receiving an error that it is wrong. I ...
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  9. LB log - 20131219

    One day of full work on tax testing leaves me having to make adjustments to four of the twelve returns as of the time that I'm writing this. That's pretty good progress in my opinion. Issues that have come up have been relatively few and easy to fix. One interesting change for this year is that an "alert", as opposed to an "error", is given if a return is submitted with an EIC entry and without a Form 8867 attached to it. Form 8867 is the Paid Preparer's Checklist for EIC compliance ...
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  10. LB log - 20131218

    I was able to get all Christmas shopping finalized in rapid order yesterday. I'm glad for that.

    I spent the rest of yesterday and some of today spending time trying to get my streaming going as well as watch another IIDX player on his channel. Long story short, I couldn't get my stream to function properly. Messing around with settings on the separate machine led to nothing usable, and using the broadcasting software on the same machine which I use to play the game.

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  11. LB log - 20131217

    Out of time, will write more tomorrow.

    Songs went well overall.

    Lunar Beat. Extra Mode. Double play. "@" denotes Random chart modifier. All songs are of highest difficulty type unless specified.
    First line, by column; song title, EX score percentage and letter grade rank, EX score value and pass/fail, judgment readout (just great, great, good, bad poor), highest combo reached, note count of chart under Extra Mode, original note count of chart, percentage ...
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  12. LB log - 20131216

    What an irritating day at retail work. Start the day off given an order to audit all shelves in the dairy cooler. Fine, but by the time I get to the back room I get another assignment hoisted on me first; an empty 53' trailer is hooked up to the bay door and they want to load it up with empty pallets to ship away. The process of doing this requires pulling the pallets into the backroom from outside and shoving them into the cab. Doing this wouldn't be a huge issue if it wasn't for the fact that, ...
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  13. LB log - 20131215

    Fifty minutes is not enough time for me to shovel the entirety of the driveway. Also, I strongly dislike how I cannot find a set of ski goggles which don't eventually fog up as I wear them.

    Retail work today was a potpourri of everything. The start of the day had little to do in respect of exceptions in the inventory system, so I spent the morning making cardboard bales, then did all outstanding audits, then cleared some bins that were already cleared a few days ago, then I went to ...
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  14. LB log - 20131214

    I have finished the revision for 2013 Form 1120 Schedule M3 just before writing this, and yet again it has nearly every element except a few documentId values altered and in need of repair. I need to stop updating the fields manually and trust in the replace function within the direct editing of the XML code - I'll be able to save a lot of time this way, if any other changes to come are similar to what I've seen so far.

    Tomorrow morning, in lieu of starting the day with elliptical ...
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  15. LB log - 20131213

    Despite the effort I made yesterday to wake up earlier and get to bed sooner (though the latter part didn't quite pan out to a large extent), it took me a very long time to actually sleep last night. This Thursday night routine is getting to be rather irritating.

    I was informed that one of the department managers at the retail store decided to quit yesterday with immediate effect. This concerns a woman who has grown grandchildren, so I suppose the income likely wasn't as important ...
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