All the other divisions of our company have today off, except for Atlanta. And there’s not a lot of folks here.

And yet, my boss (who is technically off today) is still responding to emails in realtime.

This is the guy who called me from the line leading to Space Mountain to check on stuff. I mean, I guess that’s not too bad… the line is long, and what else are you going to do? Talk to your family? Right.

My extended family is in town, so I’m going to cut out early. steakums‘s sister Rene, her husband Frankie, son Jovanni, daughter Devyn and new daughter Julia (6 months) stopped by on their way from New Jersey to Louisianna (where half of Frankie’s family lives). We watched Cheaper by the Dozen last night, which had a funny bit or two, but otherwise blah.

It’s steakums‘s b-day today! She’s turning 43! She’ll try to tell you she’s turning 35, but that’s just vanity. Don’t listen to her.

Last night, Jovanni, Devyn and I walked down to the creek behind our house. Our conversation the whole way there and back was centered around the identification of “poison ivy”. Is that poison ivy? No. Is that? No, that’s a tree. Is that? No. Is that? Yes. AAAAH!

I’m going to mail in my taxes now.

One note on that point… The Fool discussion that started with the Net Worth table I presented in an earlier post ended up as an exchange of stories of the financially-unastute. There were a lot of folks who had gotten frustrated trying to argue with people who felt if they got money back on their taxes, then they “hadn’t paid any taxes”. When the Fools asked these folks about all the money that had disappeared from their paychecks all year long, the folks just looked blankly at them and showed them the refund check.

A few people said we should just get all of our paycheck all year long, and get a bill at the end of the year. I wonder what that world would be like? Undoubtedly, the taxes would have to be lowered just to quell the screaming somewhat so we could get some sleep.