So Far Out So IRS

Feeling a little bit cocky! The IRS is pulling out "with no further changes to your 2007-2008 return". Seems we dodged an 'Audit Bullet'. Whereas I'm ecstatic, It is also 'under final approval subject to the 'Area Director'. (Seems they have to leave one foot in the door of my life.) I will remain relieved until the 'director' says otherwise.
So, I am sharing my joy with hopes it is not premature.
Did you know when the IRS audits you as Married Filing Jointly then send the same package to each of you at the same address, on the same day and they add a note telling you they did this on purpose. There's a case of the IRS supporting the USPS! Do they think I ever showed Ron his originals? (I didn't. I sent his copies on to the people who could help.....)
I am not professing I know exactly what happened as to why they sent us a huge bill one day and a "Nevermind" on another. Thinking back, I did email Obama about my lack of enthusiasm about This War...the IRS notice came within days. Anyway, I do send a shout-out to Joe @ Kirgis and Assoc in Rochester and Fran Esquire here in his new crib in Rapids. "KowaBunga Duds!"

Today is 143rd day of exercise and on day 142 I had Brings Cycle diagnose I'd ruined my first elliptical and took it away. (Better the elliptical then the marriage.) I am feeling pretty "JOCK". (Add this to Cocky as above)
Come ON! Never would have seen this coming 145 days ago! Good news is, it is repairable...bad news is it just me and the treadmill now. GYM WAR!

And I am on a new crusade to report Cell Phone Rudeness right here and NOW. I was going to say I wanted to put an end to it but I am not GRANDIOSE!. Recently a guy called twice with a message to return 'this call'... I called him back twice, left a voice mails twice and he is pissed. Says I am hard to get a hold of. Next I was in the middle of an apology, disguised as a life situation; when the listener said.."I have to let you go...my daughter's is on the other line." Yikes. Well, Mary didn't raise no fool(s). Hit the delete key on those two kids. And while I am at it please realize I do not answer 24/7... This past weekend I left my phone in the car all weekend! (If you just GASPED at that thought don't call me!)

Top Ten Reasons You Shouldn't Answer Your Cell Phone Every time it RINGS!...

10. You are driving on the autobahn (Meg & Grrr)

9. You are driving PERIOD...(Your hand/EYE coordination isn't capable of
video games either; which may be the next generation car apps...not ours)

8. Your caller ID says "Restricted"
(It is neither PUBLISHER'S CLEARING HOUSE nor your financial institution.)

7. Your caller ID says "Unavailable" (Promise: It's a sales call)

6. It's one of the four children you haven't given money today.

5. You are one-on-one with the supermarket cashier... the bar codes are
automated...she/he is real!

4. You are in a Dead Cell Zone, No one can hear you but you will hear
"CAN YOU HEAR ME." "CAN YOU HEAR ME"..."CAN YOU HEAR ME"
and rupture your tympanic membrane.

3. Their battery is so low..."HELLO. My battery is low...I might loose you." (You just wasted their battery and your time, CLICK!)

2. Your are in the Rest Room. (Too much "Information" as they can hear everything!)

And finally the #1 Reason you should not ALWAYS answer your cell phone...
WTF...Get a LIFE!

So Meg's Memorizing Billy Joel

So I was curious as too just how old my oldest daughter is? When she stated she was memorizing the lyrics to Billy Joel's "We Didn't Start The Fire." I was thinking it's a Baby Boomers song.....

WE DIDNT START THE FIRE BY BILLY JOEL

Harry Truman, Doris Day, Red China, Johnnie Ray
South Pacific, Walter Winchell, Joe DiMaggio

Joe McCarthy, Richard Nixon, Studebaker, television
North Korea, South Korea, Marilyn Monroe

Rosenbergs, H-bomb, Sugar Ray, Panmunjom
Brando, "The King and I" and "The Catcher in the Rye"

Eisenhower, vaccine, England's got a new queen
Marciano, Liberace, Santayana goodbye

CHORUS:
We didn't start the fire
It was always burning
Since the world's been turning
We didn't start the fire
No we didn't light it
But we tried to fight it

Joseph Stalin, Malenkov, Nasser aand Prokofiev
Rockefeller, Campanella, Communist Bloc

Roy hn, Juan Peron, Toscanini, dacron
Dien Bien Phu falls, "Rock Around the Clock"

Einstein, James Dean, Brooklyn's got a winning team
Davy Crockett, Peter Pan, Elvis Presley, Disneyland

Bardot, Budapest, Alabama, Krushchev
Princess Grace, "Peyton Place", trouble in the Suez

CHORUS:
We didn't start the fire
It was always burning
Since the world's been turning
We didn't start the fire
No we didn't light it
But we tried to fight it

Little Rock, Pasternak, Mickey Mantle, Kerouac
Sputnik, Chou En-Lai, "Bridge on the River Kwai"

Lebanon, Charlse de Gaulle, California baseball
Starkweather, homicide, children of thalidomide

Buddy Holly, "Ben Hur", space monkey, Mafia
Hula hoops, Castro, Edsel is a no-go

U-2, Syngman Rhee, payola and Kennedy
Chubby Checker, "Psycho", Belgians in the Congo

CHORUS:
We didn't start the fire
It was always burning
Since the world's been turning
We didn't start the fire
No we didn't light it
But we tried to fight it

Hemingway, Eichmann, "Stranger in a Strange Land"
Dylan, Berlin, Bay of Pigs invasion

"Lawrence of Arabia", British Beatlemania
Ole Miss, John Glenn, Liston beats Patterson

Pope Paul, Malcolm X, British politician sex
JFK, blown away, what else do I have to say

CHORUS:
We didn't start the fire
It was always burning
Since the world's been turning
We didn't start the fire
No we didn't light it
But we tried to fight it

Birth control, Ho Chi Minh, Richard Nixon back again
Moonshot, Woodsto/ck/, Watergate, punk rock
Begin, Reagan, Palestine, terror on the airline
Ayatollah's in Iran, Russians in Afghanistan

"Wheel of Fortune", Sally Ride, heavy metal, suicide
Foreign debts, homeless vets, AIDS, crack, Bernie Goetz
Hypodermics on the shores, China's under martial law
Rock and roller cola wars, I can't take it anymore

CHORUS:
We didn't start the fire
But when we are gone
Will it still burn on, and on, and on, and on...
song.

Made me realize it didn't matter how old you had to be to remember all that goes past you when you see it, but how young you have to be to want to memorize it...
(I spared tormenting all with the Video but if you want to google the artist and song title it is quite good.)
I don't believe she will get the next bar boys to break in to any rowdy verse!