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Okay, I lied. On the second page, I do have "technical skills", but all that's in their are specific CAD/BIM programs and analysis/design programs that pertain to my job.

 
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Only the best employers need to know that I can sustain a spinning frisbee indefinitely on an index finger, or any flat object really. 

 
I think this is going to be one of my wife's best birthdays! This is the first time it's snowed at the house since we moved here, and this is my wife's first time seeing snow!

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speaking of snow...

Took off last Friday to take my youngest son on our traditional skip school and work father son ski day - It was flat out dumping.  Great day but when we get back to our car (jeep) the parking lot is a shit show, apparently 20 In of the Yankee Dandruff isnt good for lightweight cars and 2 wheel drive trucks, who would have thunk it?

Me and another jeeper helped pull 2 Subaru's out to the point where they could get some traction, one had shitty tires, and I think the other one just made a poor decision on how he parked that mostly attributed to his being stuck,  but the owners were pretty nice and appreciative (I can kick myself for not getting a pic!) But this back parking lot was on a hill and it was a total mess.

Then there was this jack wagon in a Nissan pick up, 2WD.  I initially refused to help him, people like that need to learn a lesson, but in his attempts to get out he had blocked in this old truck that was trying to get out.  Against my better wishes we pull him up to the top of the hill so he could get out.

As we are leaving winter park I am behind the same nissan truck, he gets stuck in the huge amount of snow in the slight uphill to get onto the highway. I saw this coming and just drove around and might have given him the one finger salute..

Also we were one of the last cars they let over the pass before they closed it for avalanche control -  (Berthoud Pass for any of you who have been to winter park) - It would have totally sucked to have been stuck behind that due to people who were unprepared.

CO supposedly has a "traction law" for times like these, but they dont really enforce it, and I hope the guy in the nissan learned an expensive lesson that requires a tow truck or something, but regardless it was a good lesson for my 17 year old in being prepared.

Also I wont let myself or my family "push" cars stuck in the snow, this is a good way to get your leg crushed or worse - originally the nissan guy was upset I wouldn't push, not that I think an extra person pushing a truck uphill in 20-24" of snow would have made a difference. but nope..

 
Man! We ended up getting just over 4" of snow in about 3 hours. It was pretty amazing. This was pretty exciting for us since we didn't expect to get snow!

My wife was able to make her first ever snowman and got to throw snowballs.

It pretty much shut the whole city down. There were tons of wrecks around the main road near our house. At the entrance to our neighborhood is a pretty steep hill and I saw a few people trying to come in, but would eventually lose traction and slide back down to the entrance. A dude got out his side-by-side and started taxiing people to their houses.

My sister and her husband were on the way over that morning to visit. It's a 3 hour drive from their house and it ended up taking them 5 hours because the only roads into the city closed (including the interstate). They got held up 40 minutes out from our house for the extra 2 hours. At least it was lunch time and they made it somewhere to eat.

I can't wait for it to snow again.

Field across from neighborhood:

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Chattaneers' House:

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Neighborhood:

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So is that Chattanooga? (I spent the 1st 40 years of life in Atlanta)

Where is the wife from?

Its snowing again here.. we had a really nice January so I guess this is just time to pay the piper!

 
So is that Chattanooga? (I spent the 1st 40 years of life in Atlanta)

Where is the wife from?

Its snowing again here.. we had a really nice January so I guess this is just time to pay the piper!
Yeah Chattanooga. We're both from FL.

How regular is snow where you are?

 
Passed along my tax stuff stuff to a CPA yesterday.

I'm right at the line to write-off/claim my unreimbursed stuff for the PE. and it's basically pointless to claim it.

whomp whomp

i mean I expected not to be able to do anything with it but i figured i'd be far off from being able to claim it.  

 
Passed along my tax stuff stuff to a CPA yesterday.

I'm right at the line to write-off/claim my unreimbursed stuff for the PE. and it's basically pointless to claim it.

whomp whomp

i mean I expected not to be able to do anything with it but i figured i'd be far off from being able to claim it.  
Woohoo!

I stayed up to do taxes last night. I didn't think we were going to get a refund, but we are! Hello new dishwasher!

 
Woohoo!

I stayed up to do taxes last night. I didn't think we were going to get a refund, but we are! Hello new dishwasher!
I typically get a return when my mom's done my taxes - at least from federal.

Boyfriend's best friend did his taxes over the weekend. And he was going to get a return of like 2500$. And then he added his wife to it (they got married last year) and the return dropped to 200$. She works(ed) 2 part time jobs. Her parents typically did her taxes and she'd owe 2-3000$ and they'd just pay it for her. And she never knew that she ever owed money - I'm not sure that she knows even now, they may have just told him. 

 
lol One of those "She's your problem now" moments!

I'm glad I didn't have to file state tax returns with either state I lived in this year.
One year, my refund from Maine was 24$. And it cost 25$ to file online with Turbotax... 

 
When you folks take vacations/days off and put the info up on shared calendars, how much info do you put?

For me, I put "Lyceefruit - PTO" or "Lyceefruit - site visit".

But some of my coworkers put "John - rockclimbing in the desert" "Jason - hunting/ATV trip in CO" "Ashley - Dr appt" 

 
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