Guess what?!
No, I’m not coming over to give you cookies. Forget it!
I’m going to New Orleans at the end of April! Eric and Sonia and Gustafson invited me along. There’s supposed to be some kind of jazz fest thingy going on. Cool! But what I’m most excited about is just going there, seeing all the history and indulging in the food, which is supposed to be something else.
Anyone ever been?

…and of course the moneyshot:

Gotta say, The Altima, you’ve been quite the workhorse through this whole ordeal. Whaddya say I get you that new serpentine belt you’ve been asking for after you’re all patched up?

Wow — I’ve definitely had better evenings. Spent tonight doing my US taxes and listening to the Canucks get slaughtered like so many cattle in Calgary: losing 4-0 and tying the series at 2-2. And I owe money!
Okay, I take that back; the evening wasn’t all bad — started off by having Ultimate practice with 11 other folks in super-windy conditions. It was a ton of fun, really tested one’s ability to handle the disc properly; loads of turnovers.
There’s even a shimmer of goodness about my US taxes — I filed AND completed them for free! This was made possible by TaxAct, a tax-software company which upsells their free customers while they’re doing their taxes to get them to buy their deluxe package. But that’s mostly useful if you’ve got a complicated tax situation, and I think I might possibly have the simplest return ever. Though I’ll have to increase my federal wage withholdings during 2004 — I can’t stand owing money at the end of the year. Federal because there’s no state income tax for Florida. Woot some more! 🙂
Today’s pic was taken at lunch while I was walking across the boardwalk to the apartment complex’s clubhouse. The turtles all-come-a-runnin whenever anyone steps on it — they know it’s very possible they’ll be getting fed. I don’t want to encourage this kind of behaviour, so I didn’t give them anything (I had nothing on me 😉