It snowed today for the third time this season. Another unusual thing that is happening this year is that I am doing my own taxes. Last year, I went to HR Block, sat in a chair by a lady’s desk and watched her open a program that told her what numbers to enter and where exactly to find them in order to enter them. Then she charged me $300. I swear I am not kidding. What a racket they have going on there. I looked at her business card when it was all over with and she wasn’t even a CPA. Her card basically had her name, then underneath was the sentence “Can Type for Exorbitant Fees.”.
So I made the decision, quite easily I might add, to get my own program for 30 bucks and type in the numbers when prompted all by myself and, in the process, save $270. I opted for TurboTax, because it sounded super fast. Turbo!!! It’s right there in the name for crying out loud. And so I typed in numbers when prompted and now I am ready to file my taxes. And it didn’t cost me $300 plus a trip into town. It didn’t even take that long, although to be honest I thought it would be a little faster because of the Turbo part, but still it was over rather quickly. Now I can spend the money I save on useless crap like a tiny stand for my iPhone that makes it look like a miniature iMac. How freaking awesome is that?
Over the past day and night, we received around 7 inches of snow. We don’t usually get anywhere near that much around here so it was pretty cool, literally and figuratively. But what’s even more cool is a brand new iMac. Here it is in all it’s powered off glory on my desk, just waiting to be awesome.
And now, back to the snow.
My new iMac came in this weekend and today I completed my first day of work using it. It’s pretty much all downhill from here. Nothing I can ever use or do from this point forward will match the awesomeness of this device. I practically sat down in front of it this morning, experienced a vague warming sensation and then the day was over and all of my work had pretty much done itself. And to top it all off, my desk went from a giant pile of cords with a few devices sticking up out of it to one giant device with two cords that I can’t even see from where I am. Oh oh oh!! The mouse is magic, too. It scrolls with no scroll wheel. It left and right clicks with no buttons. It freaks me out.
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