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Within moments after waking up for work this morning, my wife had a spell of vomiting which didn't fully cease until she was in the parking lot of the store on the way to work. I'm not quite sure what explanation or culprit there is for this behavior, if there is anything specific beyond her own personal digestive ability, because I'm fine and my mother in law is fine. In times like this, she always blames the previous night's dinner for the problem but we've had the same meal several times before. ...

While exercising today, I had a new score hit for Muchi Muchi Pork Manpuku mode. For the last few months I have slowly inched my way past 35 million or so to reach 44 million as my highest within this week, I believe. Today I hit the 50 million extend during the Stage 3 boss and spent my last life in Stage 4 for a new high of 55 million. The score puts me at #6 on the online leaderboard for the game. There's still no 1CC recorded yet. The #1 score is 115 million or so. I wonder how far I can actually ...

D3. Teaching her how to set proper pricings and find new stock to buy took nearly 90 minutes. I had that kind of day and just sat back with some Glenfitch scotch and had to explain, inch by painstaking inch, about everything on the screen and how to do the homework to get the prices set for sales. Sometimes I wonder I would see the supposed truth for myself, that there's generally better players of the game on HC.

It turns out that the dinner to more commemorate my Dad's birthday at ...

I like to think it's because of the work day today. That's what I told my wife, anyway, in between playing songs here and as I saw her to bed this evening.

It's a game that I didn't even care about before release. And I'm on that forum and punching at the wall, over and over again.

It's because today really drained me, I said out loud, as my feet continue to pulse from the wear. That's how I justify it in my head and outside of it.

Because they'll listen. ...

Letter to the IRS sent. Hope I get a response by Tuesday.

I feel like I'm flailing my legs a lot more on my bike now. I definitely need to see about finding a rapair shop around here and buy a new gear.

Let it be known that it is rather difficult to type with one hand while the other pets a cat belly.

A lot of easy charts came up in today's song run. I thought that I might be in for some trouble after the lousy run with In The Sky, Golden Horn, and Eraser ...

I'm riding home from work today on my bike. I approach the driveway, which has a steep incline, and suddenly I feel the gear pop and my pedals go free. It's happened before, only now they stay loose. After some investigation, I come to see that the gear mechanism at the rear wheel has become loose and rendered the bike unusable.

After dinner, I go to a Sports Authority in search of a gear replacement, as I don't want to return to my work place and I figure they might have it there. ...

So far I have made a few test submissions of the First Scenario for Form 1120 (from Publication 4162) and the results are ... not total success, but rather close. As important, I didn't stumble out of the gate with an error report that was as long as the submitted data. The first test returned 20 errors, most of which were very easy to fix, as they related to checkbox data (some require a 1 or 0, others require an actual character "X" or to have the tag be removed entirely), others were ...

I think the main reason that I keep putting off making Form 1120 test data is that I am not looking forward to having to figure out how to correct what I am sure are going to be dozens of errors on each initial attempt. Having Regular Expression scripts coded to filter out everything en masse is definitely preferential to the old method of writing an individual script file per Form, but I envision that I'm going to spend numerous hours hunting down missing tags which get obliterated by the RegEx ...

Errand Day.

First task was to drive to the residence of one of my wife's coworkers to help with a new PC acquisition. They wanted to properly transfer files from the old machine to the new one. As I believe I have stated previously, the machine was still unopened in the box upon my arrival. The only content of files which she had to move were less than 100 Word documents and a few directories of pictures. I'm pretty sure it all could have fit on a 4GB thumb. If her (and her husband's) ...

One of the presently annoying aspects of being an Enrolled Agent is that there is no shortage of offers by companies for CPE products, degrees, advertising, newsletters, and all other kinds of ways which are meant to supplement a running business. At times, it almost feels like it would be easier to make profit in making a product which people like me could use rather than being an actual EA. I'm rather sure that there are few fields of business for which this kind of situation doesn't apply, but ...

For lack of anything better to mention, and because I forgot to do so -

A few days ago while at my parent's house, I came across an old Follet's Student Atlas which was strewn about random paperwork that my Mother has laying by the fireplace. I recall having this in the house since I attended Kindergarten at St. Gerard Majella's in Markham. The print date is 1980, so it still has locations like West Germany featured in the pages for Europe. For the listings of the US, they featured ...

If I recall correctly, I said it last time and I'll do so again here - Happy Arimistice Day. I tend to say things like that just to be deliberately anachronistic and contrary; but there's an article written by Kurt Vonnegut which I think sheds light on why it's a phrase that should not be discarded and forgotten. Here's one source of it: http://blog.loa.org/2010/11/kurt-von...e-day-and.html. In essence, I think it should be more important to observe the acclimation of peace, even beyond ...

Another power outage hit today, after dinner, but this time it was considerably more substantial than the one which affected us last time, in terms of area. Thankfully the duration of the outage was shorter than the initial projected restoration time, but the number of affected customers, according to the information given by the service number, was some 800 locations this time compared to 16 prior. Usually, the houses across the street are unaffected by outages which hit us, but such wasn't the ...

While it's all well and fun to wring hands and moan about how Christmas decorations and products are put in stores seemingly earlier every year, All Saints Day really marks the start of Eggnog season as far as I'm concerned.

My Mom has an egg nog recipe which is unbelievable and unsurpassed. There were a few years that I had a batch of it made for my birthday in lieu of cake, and yes it's thick enough to hold up some candles for enough time. The main issue with making it this way ...

One again, the power of Regular Expressions comes to the rescue.

Included with the IRS 1120 Schema set is an instance document, which I've mentioned here a while ago. The file is a text document which is 26 Megabytes in an unaltered state. I think it takes nearly five minutes to scroll from the top to the bottom with the Page Down key. The instance is an extreme case and features several returns of a consolidated corporation, each with some 635 forms or attachments of some kind for ...