It really is amazing how intertwined food is with memory and identity.
This post made me curious because I couldn't remember seeing a confirmation email from TurboTax after I did my taxes at my parents' house a few weeks ago. I called my dad and apparently I didn't hit the final submit button.
D'oh!
I finally tracked down that last figure I needed and submitted just before lunch. I've tried to justify using something/someone besides TT, but my finances just aren't complicated enough (which could either be a good or bad thing).
Ever easier next year: How much did you make? Send it in.
Actually, I should owe substantially less next year.
yea, next year is going to constitute a major assault on the market for tools like Turbotax (and for CPAs doing taxes for average folks), what with the standard deduction doubling. A whole lotta us will no longer be able (need to??) itemize deductions. That will simplify things considerably.
So, not to turn this into a baseball site or anything, but I am stupid excited for tonight's game. Two best teams in the division, in Puerto Rico, Odorizzi against Cleveland (Trueblood wrote about this in the off-season, how Odorizzi's approach tends to be exactly Cleveland's weakness), after 9,236 days without a game... I'm sure the actual product won't match the hype I'm feeling, but I am very much looking forward to it.
I thought it would have been nice of MLB to have some loophole allowing the teams to bring along a couple of their MiLB players from Puerto Rico as a special expanded roster
I'm looking forward to Berríos starting tomorrow. Molitor specifically lined up his starts so he'd pitch at home.
I’d be looking forward to it more if the day we finally get another game is the day I go back to work after three days off and work a night shift, no less. Well, playoff basketball is happening, at least.
I’m looking forward to the games, too. I assume the game will be played in Estadio Hiram Bithorn; this will be the first time the Twins play a “home” game on artificial turf since 6 October 2009. I’m curious to see how the park looks on TV.
The Twins don’t have a particularly strong legacy of Puerto Rican-born players, which makes Berríos’ spot on this roster even more special. I got curious to see who the Twins’ Puerto Rican rWAR leaders are, which turns out to be a pretty decent trivia question. Here’s a clue:
Well, that’s no fun. Appparently B-R doesn’t paginate Play Index results for non- (or ex-)subscribers. Looks like there was one other player ahead of the guy who appeared on my list of results, so here they are:
Player
rWAR
Eddie Rosario
5.0
Bombo Rivera
2.5
Vic Power
1.7
Junior Ortiz
1.7
If this had been played last year, the Twins could have started both Berrios and Hector Santiago, who played for Puerto Rico in the WBC. Don't know how deserving it was, but it would have been a nice gesture for the Twins to make Kennys Vargas the 26th man for this series. I guess he's not on the 40-man, so it would have been a difficult move.
Buxton scratched from the lineup with a migraine. Kepler in center, Grossman in right.
Jeff Teague is starting to grow on me.
Jeff Teague just said the Wolves are playing into the Rockets hands when they use KAT to space the floor rather than having him post
I...uh...googled that to confirm the definition. Probably should not have used my work machine. 😉
You might want to wipe it.
And after you’re done with your chest, wipe the machine.
lol
:anger-emoji:
Sad news:
A beloved voice. A radio man through and through. And the kindest colleague you could hope to find. @npr is 💔to share the news that newscaster Carl Kasell has died at age 84. pic.twitter.com/63jgGDFJEY
He was the voice of waking up, pre-dawn, for much of my childhood. (I thought his name was so cool, as I imagined it “Karl Castle.”) I have distinct memories of his voice particularly around second grade, when we were living in a trailer. Pops would listen to NPR as he was eating breakfast & getting ready, and the walls were so thin that I could hear him in my room. What an amazing career, and what a wonderful voice.
Two rounds of vomiting topped off by diarrhea for the Valet overnight. (I'm not as good as CoC at humblebragging!)
I guess at some point that's going to be inevitable, too.
There are 5 teams with 11 or more wins (including the Pirates!). The Twins have only played 11 games total.
The Angels and Red Sox are one win short of having twice as many as the Twins.
Holy cats, Cano must have gone on an extended 0-fer, he was tied with Joe atop the batting leaders not that long ago
I was playing around on Serious Eats and fell down a rabbit hole (that started with a screed on Pad Ka-Prao) and found this lovely meditation on culture, food, and remembrance.
That was lovely, Doc. A couple months ago I got a hankering for groundnut soup, and came across a piece on Serious Eats contemplating the resonance of that dish for an American of West African descent. Seems like something you’d enjoy (the recipe was good, too).
fantastic. Thanks for the link.
Wonderful. Thank you.
I think you might find this interesting.
also fantastic. Thanks.
It really is amazing how intertwined food is with memory and identity.
This post made me curious because I couldn't remember seeing a confirmation email from TurboTax after I did my taxes at my parents' house a few weeks ago. I called my dad and apparently I didn't hit the final submit button.
D'oh!
I finally tracked down that last figure I needed and submitted just before lunch. I've tried to justify using something/someone besides TT, but my finances just aren't complicated enough (which could either be a good or bad thing).
Ever easier next year: How much did you make? Send it in.
Actually, I should owe substantially less next year.
yea, next year is going to constitute a major assault on the market for tools like Turbotax (and for CPAs doing taxes for average folks), what with the standard deduction doubling. A whole lotta us will no longer be able (need to??) itemize deductions. That will simplify things considerably.
So, not to turn this into a baseball site or anything, but I am stupid excited for tonight's game. Two best teams in the division, in Puerto Rico, Odorizzi against Cleveland (Trueblood wrote about this in the off-season, how Odorizzi's approach tends to be exactly Cleveland's weakness), after 9,236 days without a game... I'm sure the actual product won't match the hype I'm feeling, but I am very much looking forward to it.
I thought it would have been nice of MLB to have some loophole allowing the teams to bring along a couple of their MiLB players from Puerto Rico as a special expanded roster
I'm looking forward to Berríos starting tomorrow. Molitor specifically lined up his starts so he'd pitch at home.
I’d be looking forward to it more if the day we finally get another game is the day I go back to work after three days off and work a night shift, no less. Well, playoff basketball is happening, at least.
I’m looking forward to the games, too. I assume the game will be played in Estadio Hiram Bithorn; this will be the first time the Twins play a “home” game on artificial turf since 6 October 2009. I’m curious to see how the park looks on TV.
The Twins don’t have a particularly strong legacy of Puerto Rican-born players, which makes Berríos’ spot on this roster even more special. I got curious to see who the Twins’ Puerto Rican rWAR leaders are, which turns out to be a pretty decent trivia question. Here’s a clue:
* One GG earned in a partial season.
I got the pitcher! (Checked BR to see his Games)
Got the pitcher right away.
Well, that’s no fun. Appparently B-R doesn’t paginate Play Index results for non- (or ex-)subscribers. Looks like there was one other player ahead of the guy who appeared on my list of results, so here they are:
If this had been played last year, the Twins could have started both Berrios and Hector Santiago, who played for Puerto Rico in the WBC. Don't know how deserving it was, but it would have been a nice gesture for the Twins to make Kennys Vargas the 26th man for this series. I guess he's not on the 40-man, so it would have been a difficult move.
Buxton scratched from the lineup with a migraine. Kepler in center, Grossman in right.
Jeff Teague is starting to grow on me.
Jeff Teague just said the Wolves are playing into the Rockets hands when they use KAT to space the floor rather than having him post
Despite acknowledging that Chief Wahoo is unacceptable, the Cleveland Baseball Team somehow decided to wear — and sell — a cap featuring Chief Wahoo & the Jackie Robinson Day patch.
Time to rename this franchise the “Steamers.”
I...uh...googled that to confirm the definition. Probably should not have used my work machine. 😉
You might want to wipe it.
And after you’re done with your chest, wipe the machine.
lol
:anger-emoji:
Sad news:
He was the voice of waking up, pre-dawn, for much of my childhood. (I thought his name was so cool, as I imagined it “Karl Castle.”) I have distinct memories of his voice particularly around second grade, when we were living in a trailer. Pops would listen to NPR as he was eating breakfast & getting ready, and the walls were so thin that I could hear him in my room. What an amazing career, and what a wonderful voice.
NASA hero.
Just heard Barbara Bush died.
What could possibly go wrong?
We'll, considering the floating island of trash in the middle of the Pacific is now roughly the size of Texas, I hope nothing.