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As much as I don’t mind my extra padding, and as honest as I’m being when I say I’m happier with my body now than I ever have been, I’m not entirely healthy.I have a family history of diabetes, and I’ve been having trouble keeping my blood pressure and blood lipids at a healthy level [...]

That is the date I intend to have the means and motivation to move on from my current mode of earning a living.It will be followed by a month-long cross-country road trip, after which I intend to reenter university to get my Econ on.The necessary precursors to this goal are:

Have all debt at an interest [...]

Well, I overestimated how much being a homeowner would help my tax bill, underestimated my travel expenses for work last year, and thus underestimated the estimated taxes I should have paid over the past year. I also failed completely to pay my NC estimated payments, which was just a stupid oversight for me and I [...]

Well, not really, at least not yet. But there is this.
I think I posted a few years ago that taxing cigarettes so heavily was a big mistake for the states that were doing settlements with the tobacco companies. Sin taxes always work that way: You are ostensibly trying to discourage the sinfulness by making it [...]

It means sitting out all night in the rain to enjoy a bit of civil disobedience, only to find that the words you’re told to recite by a homo county supervisor are true, beautiful, and more meaningful today than ever before.
Thank you for sharing your life with me, baby.

This was a post I just made to a thread at “Urban” Planet - you know, that site which is mostly about the latest trends in high-rise downtown condo development and where Ikea will locate in Charlotte?
This post was pulled and I was banned, which I totally expected, because that’s what the faggy board owner does with [...]