At 2,250 miles on the Jeep, the back passenger window is now at my command.
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Once again all the snow is to the south of us. Yes, we still have snow cover, but not enough for sledding. WS and Jimmy will head up north tomorrow in search of better snow mobiling conditions.
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Just downloaded and took a quick peek at MS Office 10 Professional (Beta Version). The first thing I noticed was the addition of a "File" tab that contains all the commands that you would expect (print, save, save as etc.). I like that addition as it is hard to explain the steps to printing if the first thing to click is the "picture". I have continued to call the "picture" "file", but that just confuses users that have never used a previous version!
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The downloading of the beta version of Office 10 Professional also gives me a copy of Access. I haven't seen a version of Access later than 2003 so this will be a big change for me. However, I like a challenge and it ought to be interesting at the least.
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I've been going thru the seed catalogs in the last week or so. I've got it narrowed down to only "needing" 95 packets of seeds spread amongst 4 companies. I'll have to go back thru the list and narrow them down.
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One thing that makes my seed list long is that this year I plan to get more into the "greens". Greens includes everything from lettuce to brocoli/cauliflower; from mizuna to mesclun. Since I've not grown these things in the past, I don't have any lefto overs in stock. Also, last year I used up all my stock of tomatoes and peppers and didn't buy any other seeds.
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Got the taxes done and submitted last night. For those that are jealous, don't be. That just means our taxes are so simple, and deductions nil, so that it's almost a waste to buy basic tax preparation software. Also means we pay maximum taxes (in something like the 98th percentile for our wage group). We did get a $90 residential energy credit for putting in two new doors (the front door and the basement door), so I guess that's something anyway.
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It was a bit disheartening to see that we made 10% less this year than last. I took a 10% paycut, but that should have translated to 5% loss overall. I forgot that when WS took his present position, although he got a "raise" he lost overtime, so he actually took a pay cut too. No wonder it seemed a bit of a struggle this year. Of course, we are so much better off than those that no longer have a job, so can't really complain!
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Don't know if I'll posst any more this weekend. If not, have a great weekend. If I do post more, have a great weekend anyway!
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