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I worked, got paid and all the way home I was anticipating driving by the Romeo Weed-O-Rama not knowing what I'd really do...I have nerves of steel. Iron discipline.

Nice day, 70° , so I walked three miles in the woods. Daffodils are coming up, saw some deer tracks and a fox. Very relaxing as usual.

It was warm as hell here. I had to do a little bit of trim in 6 condo units all in a row. I set my little saw up in the first one and just walked back and forth down the street until I had them all done. No jacket. It was sunny and there was one Canada Goose that just arrived. He was standing on the peak of a roof squawking. That's what I wait for every year.

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I had to drive by the wilderness preserve where I used to walk my dog. I was going to stop but I figured it's too early in the year. I like to walk by that river when the melting is peaking. It's like the Mighty Mississipp.

Mandy and me would walk across that river in the summer I liked having my boots under water. I'd fill my pockets with handfuls of the black glacial till underwater to put in a rock tumbler. After you clean 10,000 years worth of geo-grime off them, they're like jewels. Little bits of every color of every rock shield from here to the Arctic Circle. The river's flowing through the trough carved by a mile thick glacier. Everything here just fell out of that ice when it melted. It's awesome, especially this time of year when the snow and ice are melting and the cold water is gushing. It's like being there.

Well, next summer, take the redheaded step child to the river too.

Yes.

This joint was crawling with Mastodons and Mammoths. Fck. I wish that was still going on. Giant hairy elephants, Smilodon; no people.  It must have been quite a scene.

People ate them all.

I just saw a news report saying that anyone waiting for a tax refund  is screwed. Seems about right.

I just saw a news report saying that anyone waiting for a tax refund  is screwed. Seems about right.

Are they pausing the payments that we owe too?