it’s pointless!
Okay, so I use and like TurboTax for my taxes every year. Somewhere along the way I got the impression that you have to buy a new version every year because tax law changes that fast. Is that really true? Did anything change in 2005 that would make me have to buy a new version of TurboTax?
I’m in an apple store and don’t know what to do!
And now we’re having a bagel party! The fun never stops here!
Funniest thing heard on the day before new code release:
I don’t know why I need to be here. What could go wrong? Isn’t that what UAT is for?
They’re new…
I’m going to have a pizza party at work!
So remember how I said that I should have bought a new stove instead of a new tv? So that’s not much of an issue anymore as my stove took a dive on Monday. I immediately (and happily) drove out to Lowes and grabbed a new one, it should show up sometime today. I’m pretty happy with it, it’s a flat top range with a convection oven that matches my new refrigerator. Matching appliances and gross suburbanism here I come!
I’ve got a demo at 10 for about 70 director and senior manager types and I have to say, I’m kind of nervous. The product works, but things around it, the bits that make it work, have been in a flux all week so it’s not sitting on a very well tested platform. Thankfully it’s a net meeting thing, so I don’t actually have to be in front of all these people, that’s why I’m not crapping my pants.
After working with and around nerds and computar people for so long I’d sort of gotten used to a certain kind of social environment and over-the-cube-wall chatter. In the last six months though I’ve been almost completely surrounded by relatively non-technical (relative to all the programmers anyway) business analysts. Which means that now the conversations I overhear deal with golf, diets, and the goings on of Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie. That’s not a bad thing at all, it only stands out because it’s (I’m assuming) what most idle work conversations deal with. It’s sort of my brief venture into a world of normal people. At least they’re talking about something other than work or how much software product A is “teh best!” or “teh suck.”
In other news I bought a TV last night. I’m already feeling a bit of buyers remorse, but mostly about the timing and priority. I was laying in bed last night thinking about how instead of that TV I could have gotten a truly bitchin’ stove which, quite frankly, I would have enjoyed more. But the TV was going to get bought eventually and the stove is going to get bought eventually so I just screwed up the order out of some weird sense of TV urgency. It’s a nice TV though, even if it’s HD capabilities are going woefully to waste at the hands of the tivo. Might be time to upgrade the hard drive in that thing and start recording everything at best quality…
I’ve posted my pictures from Hawaii here:
http://flickr.com/photos/sullust/sets/1760092/
