Thank goodness it snowed tonight ... at least three inches. Now I can run Trotter out on the lake -- we tried it today on Lake Minnewashta, and the poor guy couldn't get any footing. At one point he turned around and looked at me as if to say "You've got to be kidding, right?"
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Earlier in the week, I wrote:
My picks for this weekend's NFL extravaganza: NE over SD; IND over BAL; NO over PHI; CHI and SEA are a push.
And lookee what! New England was a hard-luck winner ... Manning and the Colts continue to cut that meat ... Nawlins beat the Iggles ... and the Bears and 'Hawks went to overtime, with the Bears winning. I was 3 for 3 -- 4 for 4 if you count my chickenshit "maybe both, who knows?" pick in Chicago.
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I started using Quicken 2007, in Parallels, tonight, and had a little flashback to 2000, when I was running 998 Productions out of my bedroom and had to learn the intricacies of Quickbooks Pro. The only hard part of it was doing the "split" on all checks -- categorizing the amount paid into different areas ... some were easy, like phone bills and utilities, but the hard one always was my AmEx, because I did almost everything on my AmEx.
Well, we do a lot on one of our cards, and I split that one this evening. It took me almost 45 minutes to do it ... but it's one of my 2006 LifeGoals™ to get a handle on where the money goes, and why. Soon I'll have all sorts of nerdy pie charts and line graphs (or pie graphs and line charts, whatever) to show my lovely wife.
What color in the pie should I make "crap we buy that we don't exactly need?" ...
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