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Brain freeze

August 10, 2010 – 3:17 pm

To lighten the mood, here's a parable: We were playing host to Jeannie's nephew again this past week, culminating in a trip to Manhattan on Saturday to ostensibly check out some colleges. We went up to the NYU area first, checking first to see if there were any 7-Elevens around the campus. Jeannie and her [...]

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Ready with a handshake and an open palm

April 24, 2008 – 11:15 am

Damn. I knew they'd catch up with us sooner or later. For years, New York State has tried to get us to pony up nonexistent sales tax for stuff we buy online. There's a line in the tax return that asks you to estimate the total amount of "unpaid" sales tax for anything and everything [...]

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0 for 1

February 14, 2008 – 3:21 pm

The other day I trudged uptown to the Bed Bath & Beyond way over past 1st Ave and 61st St. It's nice to have this big box store sort of nearby, but it's always a bit of a hike. I go by the Roosevelt Island tram, which is always fascinating in its total obsolescence (don't [...]

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A Day late, A dollar short

January 3, 2008 – 12:21 pm

Pot Pie, originally uploaded by Jimmy Legs. I didn't notice it so much during the past week, but when the last of our visitors had successfully decamped, I realized how exhausted I was/am. The upside is that the whole Christmas visit thing went fairly effortlessly; the downside is that it left little time to really [...]

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Lovin' every minute of it

December 21, 2007 – 10:51 am

Funboy, originally uploaded by Jimmy Legs. Whoa, what a long week. We've been preparing the house for our visitor all week, which was a lot more work than I thought. And now I'm not even sure the house looks that much better than it did before (there's only so much a broom and a sponge [...]

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