What Made you Smile/What Ticked you off Today?

[Luke]

Luke - I don't know how you get money back w/o kids, unless maybe your claiming 0 and paying out more than you need to all year?

I don't know either, and I don't plan on asking.

I will say that we are very generous to a few charities and we also donate to the goodwill a few times a year. Had I kept every receipt, and had my wife kept receipts for out of pocket money for her work (educator) we would have been closer to 4k on the total return. That and I've always told our HR guy "take out as much as you can".

One thing that made my jaw drop was the "If you don't have medical insurance" bulls#!t. If I wasn't covered, I would have to pay around $400 A MONTH for 2014, and around $700 A MONTH in 2015. That or I could pay a $200 penalty FOR THE ENTIRE YEAR.

That is completely absurd and stupid beyond belief (if that bill passes).

[REPO Man]

MOVING UPDATES:

We're getting the U-Haul on Monday and leaving in the afternoon, though only me and my mom and brother are going. His girlfriend and "the girls" (her daughter from a previous relationship and her daughter with my brother) and my grandmother are staying for another week while they sort out car problems.
Due to leaving in the afternoon, we'll have to stop at a motel on the way to Orlando and then get back on the road the next morning.
I've been killing it with the packing. I still need to pack up probably about another one or two boxes worth of stuff, not counting my Wii (currently in the living room), my Xbox 360 (in my room), the TVs, my clothes (still can't find my Adventure Time t-shirt or my limited edition Hellraiser shirt), and et cetera. Considering when we're departing, I can save my TV (and possibly my 360) last.

Hoping the Ouya and the copy of You Are the Killer! that I Kickstarted don't ship for a little while longer, so I don't have to give them my current address and then have it forwarded to my new address when it arrives at my old one. But since it's the weekend, I don't see this as an issue.

[Luke]

Smile: Guardians of the Galaxy, as silly as it sounds, will blow your socks off. Even if you don't have feet for said socks to be blown off of. I know that doesn't make sense...yet.

The group that is working on the film is brilliant, down to some writers who only have suggestions and nit picks. Marvel and Disney and other studios are carefully making sure it doesn't eff up "phase three".

May not be as successful as MARVEL'S THE AVENGERS, but it will exceed the expectations about a movie based on a space pirate who meets up with a raccoon and a talking tree in outer space.

But I can't say I'm not already pumped for this film. The brightest in the biz, imo, is working on this down to every detail.


Frown: I should be out of the house by now.

[jinx]

Got some Dreamcast games/gear in today.

Since our Apartment switched management, the office is closed on the weekends.

[Retrodude]

Smile: Guardians of the Galaxy, as silly as it sounds, will blow your socks off. Even if you don't have feet for said socks to be blown off of. I know that doesn't make sense...yet.

The group that is working on the film is brilliant, down to some writers who only have suggestions and nit picks. Marvel and Disney and other studios are carefully making sure it doesn't eff up "phase three".

Sounds good. I love that Marvel has always been willing to do movies of their lesser known titles and Guardians could be their Star Wars. Personally, I'm still waiting for them to do a proper Tomb Of Dracula movie. Blade 3 was alright, but they can do better than that.

[cookie monster]

I met the nicest guy today he came and bought a nes and games from
me with his son it was great to see how happy he wasplaying in my game
room while his son kept saying can.i.try it
Had to brag on the sight here and the great ppl so he will join up.

[jinx]

Holding all that anger and trying to let it go was incredibly difficult.

*cringes*

This is mainly why I'm a pescetarian. For some reason when I try to eat any type of meat, this kind of stuff pops into my head. It's been so long since I've eaten red meat or pork, my stomach can't stand it anyway. I get sick every time I try to introduce it back into my diet.

I get pretty pissed off when I see things like this too (not to that extent). When I was a kid I tried to stop some kids from kicking a dog to death, but I'm a pretty small dude and couldn't do anything about it. I remember punching a tree until my knuckles bled cause I blamed myself for it. Ick, bad memories...

[flex wood]

I'm going to go squeeze my dogs at my ex's house now.

[Luke]

Frown: Joe Weider died. My Pops and I met him once, and I've been using his exercise advice since I was seven years old. "Pull-ups, push-ups, lifts, curls...Never ever rush. Always move slow and be conscious of how you are working your muscles. Always feel the way your muscles respond to your work out."

With him it was never about how much you could bench. but how many times you could bench. Guy was a genius.

[Erik_Twice]

Why do people eat dogs?

For the same reason people eat pigs.