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You said this person was into teh Jeebus right? Maybe it's a personal form of purging.

― dan m, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 20:44 (nineteen years ago)

It's better for us to file jointly. Those lifetime learning and hope scholarship credits are really awesome and have helped us out immensely in the past 4 years. If you are married, you have to file jointly to get the lifetime learning one.

I was going to deal with converting an IRA to a Roth IRA this year, but I didn't want to deal with the tax implications. It would have caused another tax bracket jump. If Jenny doesn't work very much this year, we'll stay in 15%. That jump from the 15% to 25% bracket is a real bitch.

This has been the year I really pay attention to personal finance.

― Jeff, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 20:46 (nineteen years ago)

i'm getting some fucking vanillaroma car fresheners for this joint if this is going to be a daily thing.

― chicago kevin, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 20:47 (nineteen years ago)

like a thousand of them.

― chicago kevin, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 20:47 (nineteen years ago)

Also, I hate calculating withholdings. Usually I just err on the side of paying just a little too much.

― Jeff, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 20:47 (nineteen years ago)

This has been the year I really pay attention to personal finance.

Someday, someday...

― jaymc, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 20:50 (nineteen years ago)

Anyone want to get drunk tonight? I just found out we're losing all the Journals I work on.

― dan m, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 21:16 (nineteen years ago)

Which means within a year or so I could not have a job anymore.

― dan m, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 21:16 (nineteen years ago)

oh no, Dan! I'm so sorry.

― horseshoe, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 21:17 (nineteen years ago)

where you going dan? i can't stay out too late, i have actual work to do tomorrow.

― chicago kevin, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 21:18 (nineteen years ago)

but all the same i wouldn't mind having a couple of pops in hopes of shaking this goddamn insomnia that is fucking killing me over here.

― chicago kevin, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 21:18 (nineteen years ago)

I'm sorry to hear that, Dan.

― KitCat, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 21:20 (nineteen years ago)

Dan, maybe they will just keep paying you to not edit the journals?

― Jordan, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 21:20 (nineteen years ago)

or maybe they could move you to other journals?

― horseshoe, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 21:22 (nineteen years ago)

Fuck I dunno, Small Bar in LS probably, if I go anywhere.

There is no news about what's going to happen, just that the things are going away. There may be opportunities in other departments, who knows. Everything is very grey right now.

I am sure as shit using all of my vacation this year, though!

― dan m, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 21:24 (nineteen years ago)

That fucking sucks, Dan.

― jaymc, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 21:53 (nineteen years ago)

Jesse txted me to say he had a gross and smelly dentist appointment.

― Jordan, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 22:01 (nineteen years ago)

Jesse's the boy who cried dentist so I totally won't believe it until I see the shining white capped tooth.

― Jenny, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 22:03 (nineteen years ago)

Dan, I'm sorry that you are experiencing job uncertainty. That's really frustrating! I'm going to think positively that they will give you another, better job or that you'll find something else that is way more awesome, though.

― Jenny, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 22:04 (nineteen years ago)

This is a sign that it is time for you to go to school, Dan.

― La Lechera, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 22:17 (nineteen years ago)

I like to see everything as a sign that I should be doing something else.

This headache is a sign that I should NOT grade papers tonight!

― La Lechera, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 22:17 (nineteen years ago)

PS I am sorry you are glum about job. That sucks.

― La Lechera, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 22:17 (nineteen years ago)

i cannot believe that you guys have talked about farts this much.

BUT, fwiw, there were some ladies at my old job with really bad diets who would do all sorts of awful things to the ladies' room. I blame the food they ate.

― La Lechera, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 22:19 (nineteen years ago)

I blame the chicken wings I'm going to eat tonight.

― Jordan, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 22:20 (nineteen years ago)

I am going to make Ethiopian food tonight! I got a craving I couldn't shake and BOY am I excited. The man at Kuku1u market talked to me about the VT shootings. He said they were "shots heard around the globe." :(

― La Lechera, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 22:21 (nineteen years ago)

yum, Amanda! I'm impressed; I've never made Ethiopian food. do you make the injera?

― horseshoe, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 22:22 (nineteen years ago)

Nah, that's too much trouble. I can get it for cheap at the store where I get the spices. Really it's just making a couple of stews. I'm doing lentils (mesir/misser wat) and mixed veggies.

― La Lechera, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 22:23 (nineteen years ago)

Now no one is impressed anymore.
I equate that to making one's own tortillas. I mean, yeah -- it sure would be great -- but who does that aside from dedicated campesinos and chefs? When it comes to tortillas, I'm happy with El Milagro. Similarly, I'm happy with injera that someone else made, as long as it's fresh. And it always is.

― La Lechera, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 22:35 (nineteen years ago)

No, I'm still totally impressed. I just didn't know one could get injera.

― horseshoe, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 22:36 (nineteen years ago)

I "GET" INJERA

― jaymc, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 22:38 (nineteen years ago)

haha

― horseshoe, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 22:40 (nineteen years ago)

I will email you my recipe if you want! The woman at the market told me how to make the lentils and I wrote a rough recipe from her explanation. The only out-of-the-ordinary ingredients you need are berbere spice and injera, both of which are available at the store I go to on Broadway. The rest is totally pedestrian. Garlic. Ginger. Tomatoes. Onion.

There are a lot of recipes online too, but this one comes from a real person who I know, so I like it.

― La Lechera, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 22:41 (nineteen years ago)

I want some meaty Ethiopian food, to eat with my HANDS.

― Jordan, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 22:42 (nineteen years ago)

Amanda, put it on the blog!

― jaymc, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 22:44 (nineteen years ago)

i dunno how to on new blog. i am too lazy to put it on old blog. how about i email it to you?

― La Lechera, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 22:45 (nineteen years ago)

I would love for you to email it to me, yeah! thanks!

― horseshoe, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 22:46 (nineteen years ago)

i emailed it to both of you. i am going into kitchen now. later, booblings.

― La Lechera, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 22:46 (nineteen years ago)

Are you going to R. Dashen, 'manda?

― Eazy, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 22:54 (nineteen years ago)

No, I'm going to my kitchen!

― La Lechera, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 22:56 (nineteen years ago)

I am impressed! Cooking is awesome.

Now I'm going to go have a few beers. Thanks for the commiseration, folks.

― dan m, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 22:57 (nineteen years ago)

I want some meaty Ethiopian food, to eat with my HANDS.

Right hand only, if you want to do like in the old country.

― Eazy, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 22:58 (nineteen years ago)

Jesse txted me to say he had a gross and smelly dentist appointment.

-- Jordan, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 22:01 (1 hour ago)
Jesse's the boy who cried dentist so I totally won't believe it until I see the shining white capped tooth.

-- Jenny, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 22:03 (1 hour ago)

GOOD GOD DAMN. MY TEMPORARY CROWN JUST FELL OFF!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!11

― Jesse, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 23:33 (nineteen years ago)

The dentist visit was a multi-sensory experience. While it wasn't too painful after the shot, the vibrations as they ground away about 1/8" of tooth was kind of awful and having 4 hands plus instruments in your mouth is not so great. Of course the sound was no treat. Sight wasn't so terrible. The taste of disinfectants, molding materials, and THE EPOXIES! was astounding. Worst of all was the smell of burning tooth--nauseating!

They gave me a temporary crown and told me to be careful eating on it, so I had some chili--nice and soft. But it still came off. Boo.

― Jesse, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 23:37 (nineteen years ago)

I put my tooth back on, but I need to take it off so that I don't swallow it. I gripped it between my thumb and forefinger, but found that removing a tooth from my head is not a procedure I have the wherewithal to undertake at the moment.

― Jesse, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 23:44 (nineteen years ago)

Every temp crown I've had has fallen off at some point. I had to go back and tell them to glue it more.

― Jeff, Wednesday, 18 April 2007 00:00 (nineteen years ago)

And tell them to use extra glue on the expensive ones.

― Jeff, Wednesday, 18 April 2007 00:00 (nineteen years ago)

Dammit. I pulled it back off. That was deeply unpleasant.

― Jesse, Wednesday, 18 April 2007 00:07 (nineteen years ago)

Like smelling a fart that smells like fruit or beef jerky.

― Jesse, Wednesday, 18 April 2007 00:08 (nineteen years ago)

dan and jesse both need to take more lessons from The Secret. Think HARDER about getting the journal and the crown back. Sheesh. What's wrong with you two?

― sisut, Wednesday, 18 April 2007 02:50 (nineteen years ago)

COMEHERETOME, MISSIN' TOOF.

It worked. It's with me now. I have my fucking fake tooth sitting on my desk. It's kind of funny.

Last night I had a long dream about the Soprano family. Tony and Carmela were reconciling their differences (I haven't watched since 2003, so I don't know what's up) and uniting against an enemy of the family (actually a family member who defected). We staged a hit on the guy and we had a to go to Michael Jordan's restaurant to rendevous with him.

Once the guy realized he was the subject of a hit, he turned into a cat and ran away. We caught him, and Carmela and I pretended we going to kill him, but it seems that in Mafia 2.0 killing is passe, so we stuffed the cat/man into a tennis ball container tube where we decided to leave him for a few days.

― Jesse, Wednesday, 18 April 2007 03:00 (nineteen years ago)

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