Well, I would definitely have to say that hit the bulls-eye on the target.
🙂
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“In good times, people want to advertise; in bad times, they have to.” Bruce Barton
I suppose I should give a tip of the hat to the GOOD things that happened this last week. As it has been pointed out, nothing is necessarily bad or good – it’s just a matter of perspective….
* Purchased a Super Automatic –
* Made my ex-wife blush (which was pretty damn funny)
* Turned off my work phone all weekend and felt fine about it
* Resumed my workout routine – my favorite routine that managed to knock me on my ass for two days after resuming it
* Played a LOT of guitar. That automatically should fall into “Great things I did last week”, but I’ll just go with it.
* Transferred a lot of the old VHS tape to Youtube and managed to Rickroll a bunch of people (c’mon, it was too easy)
I think there may have been some others, but I’ll go with that for now.
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“I wants to make your flesh creep.” Charles Dickens
Well, I’ve had several drafts brewing around here for a few days, but I’m going to push most of them aside…
I thought the worst of my (last) week might have been when Girl On Top called me a creep.
Granted, my post was well deserved of such a tongue-lashing. In my defense (of which I have no right whatsoever), I thought it was a funny at the time (in a ha-ha-just-kidding kind of way), but it wasn’t taken that way. Actually I kind of forgot about it, and ended up running across it again. Which is fine – I can accept that I’m still in a pretty dense mental fog, and that I sometimes forget that people “reading” me don’t always catch my immensely dry sarcasm. And that I’m kidding 90% of the time. If I put myself in the frame of mind when I wrote it, it makes sense, but a week later……not so much.
Then I moved on and thought it might have been when the banker called and told me that the information for the account beneficiaries superseded the will – which wasn’t nearly as annoying as her not calling me for a month straight – including the time when I needed money to pay for dad’s 2008 tax return.
Nope – that wasn’t it.
It might have been Saturday, when my mother came in, and I volunteered to be her estate executor – unfortunately, I can’t disclose at this time what caused that to occur. Let’s just say it may be deja vu all over again.
Then it might be today, when I just spent three hours attempting to rid my ex-mother-in-laws computer of the PAV scareware – which is an absolute bitch to get rid of even using my usual methods, then finally used windows restore to set it back before PAV was installed.
That might be it.
What a whipping of a week.
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“Be a fish swimming against the current, and be a tree swaying against the breeze.” Random
AFREAKINGSONOFBITCHES!!!!!
Okay.
I got some of that out of my system.
The banker who has been avoiding me for weeks now finally called me and told me that the beneficiary plan on the account supersedes my father’s will, which means that I have to distribute the estate, THEN pay for the estate taxes which means I have to recoup the estate fees from all the beneficiaries AFTER I’ve given everyone the money.
Dammit.
It wouldn’t have been so bad except that the banker freaking waited a month to tell me this. I’m glad I had stashed cash and was able to pay his 2008 taxes – which was no chump change at ALL.
In other news, my neighbor across the street had a tree cut down. The pile of branches is massive, it was taller than my car – this is from across the street.
No HOA in this neighborhood. HA!HA!HA!
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“With the flat tax, we’re all on a level playing field, just as it should be in the United States of America” Dan Quayle
Ahh Dan Quayle. How could one person come up with so many dumb (or just plain misunderstood) sound bites in one lifetime.
I’m sure it made sense to him at the time….
Anyway.
This 706 Estate Tax Form is going to be a bee-otch.
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“I may attempt a novel. I think that no matter what you write, it requires being honest with oneself, and you have to pull yourself out of the whirlwind of daily life.” Iris Chang
Wobbly and topsy-turvey.
That’s pretty much life right now.
My house is considerably cleaner after yesterday – and I finally made it out to Fish Creek (Linear) Trail for some walkin’.
The blisters on my feet say five miles, but I suspect it’s closer to three. The paths are very nice, although once you hit the trail on the Grand Prairie side, there are no mile markers to tell you how far you’ve gone (beyond the border). Hence, on the Arlington side, I walked one and a half miles, it’s an unknown as to how much I covered on the GP side. I just kept walking until it looked like the trail ended at a bridge, then I turned around.
During the walk, I saw a hawk, swoop down and catch a mouse, a rodent or a rat. It carried it off in flight. Pretty cool to watch nature in action.
Got the battery charger, so I’ll take the camera on the next trip out.
Going to the Dr tomorrow, it has been “suggested” that I might “need” some “medication” so that I don’t burn a bridge down to the hollow timbers at work.
Life…..
is complicated sometimes.
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“Who always only dreams of luck shouldn’t be surprised if he oversleeps it.” Ernst Deutsch
Wow – I just woke up about thirty minutes ago.
I went to bed at one last night, so if I do the math……
*pulls out scientific calculator*
Eleven hours!
Wow. And I was sober even!
All that guitar playing must have worn me out.
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Random:
I used to be in the chorus at Parker Elementary. We were all singing one day and the teacher said, “Who is harmonizing? Cut it out!”. It was probably me. I didn’t even know what “harmonizing” was!
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“Some of the bands cancelled because of the rain, so we were able to work it out so all the bands who wanted to perform were still able to.” Catey Mark
Err – maybe not.
It looks like Unknown Hinson isn’t going to be at this years TRR (after all), so I may not be going.
My brother Ross made it into two of our videos –