Got a mountain done today.

I squared up with the Feds, Oregon state and Multnomah county with those taxes, finally. Now, sure, shit’s a little late and all, but, last year at this time I was just getting the books into the accountant. I had everything to him by April 15th this time around, which was a vast improvement.

The biggest advancement this year was getting myself tied up in some investing stuff. I opened my first IRA thing up this time around. Helped a lot with the bottom line, but more importantly, puts the first foot forward in setting up some sort of nest egg for a couple decades from now. Felt weird to see it go, but, we’ll be watching it intently with hopes of it growing into something substantial. Who knows.

I felt good to send those tax returns off. Phew. Gotta get back to living.

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Cameron shows up tonight for a summer stint.

We’ve got a lot of indoor living planned. We’ve got a couple web sites to team up on, some maintenance to do on the DDC web enterprises, some logos designs to get rolling and, most importantly, some “general hanging out” to do. Cam’s a busy man. He’s married up, expecting a little critter and working up some good projects. It’ll be good to see him.

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The first Coal ad hit the pages in Transworld Snowboarding. Take a look: “Mikey Leblanc in the Frena.” Photo by Embry Rucker.

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LIstened to the new Sonic Youth album today, Rather Ripped. Great fuckin’ title. Pretty good.