2. April, 2004 - Happy Birthday, Tim!

Yesterday morning, I was thinking I would buy Tim a PC EZ-Bake Oven for his birthday. Then I tried to add one to my cart and got reminded what day it was. Sometimes I hate April Fools Day. [boing boing]
A few Sundays ago I had breakfast at The Triple Rock Social Club. While I was eating, I pondered how I often get crushes on the gals who serve me drinks and food on the mornings I’m hungover and looking for something to cure the pain. Maybe it’s just that I’m a sucker for a gal who takes care of me and makes me feel better when I’m hung over. Or maybe it’s a weakness for gals who bring me booze. In any case, it happens to me often enough that I’m pretty sure there’s a definite pattern here. Now if I can just figure out what to do with this realization…
PapaScott talks about Subsidized Day Care and how a complicated tax code with a lot of loopholes is actually regressive, rather than progressive. Yeah, I know flat tax went out of style with Steve Forbes, but I still think if I’ve got to pay tax, I’d rather it actually be a fair one, and I can’t see anything fairer than a flat tax. A flat tax would also save me a few thousand per year as an employer, which isn’t a huge deal, but it adds up, since the amount saved grows with the number of employees. [papascott]