It might be Palm Sunday, but it feels a little like February here in the QCA today. I don't think that we're going to have much in the way of accumulation, but it won't be a day to get a tan either. I'm thinking that March is going to be a long month this year.
The next installment to my Tomah story may not get launched today. I'm working this AM, there's the Iowa State game to watch, and probably some other distractions this afternoon. Maybe late this evening. So those of you out there on pins and needles for the wrap on that effort may need to cool your jets for now. Sorry.
Baseball's Opening Day is a week from today in Texas. Most of the teams are then scheduled for Monday, April 1st, including a home date for the White Sox in C-town. Its not like there aren't a few early games postponed every year, but its really hard to get in a baseball frame of mind while we have snow showers. The local high school Spring sports schedules have been mostly washed out except for some soccer (that they'll play in most any weather, except lightening). Global warming fo' sure.
I remember games in late March and early April in South Bend when we would play in cold weather, and in occasional snow flurries. Hitting the ball wasn't all that much fun. Reminder to any of the baseball hopefuls in the younger generations in the fam: if you want to play baseball, go South.
Wells Fargo Arena in Des Moines hosted the NCAA wrestling championships this past week. Penn State came away last night with its third straight national team championship. They are coached by Iowa State icon Cael Sanderson. There has to be a story as to why he couldn't get that done in Ames.
Tiger has put himself in the lead at Bay Hill, kinda like what most people anticipated going into the tournament. Like I said on Friday, he be the horse for that course. But the real news out of the tournament is host Arnold Palmer putting the suite move on SI Cover Girl, Kate Upton. Sure, it was entirely for the press, but hat-tip to Arnie for the effort.
Interesting that the PR agency that Arnie has been tied to for decades also has a division for models. With Upton's main claim to fame being those difficult SI cover shots for two straight years (that's sports, right?), this had to be a photo-op for her. Like it was just a coincidental meeting.
My pal Bill and I were commiserating during a break from our tax return work yesterday about the increasing complexity of the input for 2012 returns. I've become a proponent of the e-filing system, but like with any modern data-processing exercise, each year brings enhancements and refinements to the program. Tax preparers and securities firms now have even more information to pump into the electronic files for each taxpayer. Its no wonder that we have a progression to bigger government. The IRS has more data to audit...requiring more auditors. They'll eventually be able to trace your movements to the latrine. Maybe they already do.
And that's before the implementation of the cluster-bomb known as the Affordable Care Act. (Did they have a sense of humor when they came up with that name for the law, or were they just that ignorant?)
For the record, the aforementioned ACA is also known as the LtPC Retirement from Tax Preparation Act.
I may get back here later.
BCOT
Interesting that the PR agency that Arnie has been tied to for decades also has a division for models. With Upton's main claim to fame being those difficult SI cover shots for two straight years (that's sports, right?), this had to be a photo-op for her. Like it was just a coincidental meeting.
My pal Bill and I were commiserating during a break from our tax return work yesterday about the increasing complexity of the input for 2012 returns. I've become a proponent of the e-filing system, but like with any modern data-processing exercise, each year brings enhancements and refinements to the program. Tax preparers and securities firms now have even more information to pump into the electronic files for each taxpayer. Its no wonder that we have a progression to bigger government. The IRS has more data to audit...requiring more auditors. They'll eventually be able to trace your movements to the latrine. Maybe they already do.
And that's before the implementation of the cluster-bomb known as the Affordable Care Act. (Did they have a sense of humor when they came up with that name for the law, or were they just that ignorant?)
For the record, the aforementioned ACA is also known as the LtPC Retirement from Tax Preparation Act.
I may get back here later.
BCOT
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