@BnWRainbow: French Level 3 right now. Trying to slog through Le Petite Prince to give an idea of my reading level. Might be a bit too advanced at the moment.

@Alexander: There's a form out at [irs.gov] you might want to use. I'd remove a deduction.

Paid almost $600 to Feds and will get about $325 back from the state. I need to adjust my W4 for Fed considering the decrease in withholding this year

I'm trying to take that next step in cooking, so I can be more creative with my recipes. I really would like to find a good book on cooking techniques and the more 'scientific' aspects of cooking (foods that mesh well together, proportions, ratios, etc). I'll definitely check out the two resources linked.

@Red Wicket Market Farm: Until I went to the actual article, I missed these were peeled. Brown eggs don't dye well, for obvious reasons.

@Jason: I run on a Mac and backup to an external drive every few hours, so I don't think about it. :)

File on your computer.

@Coffenated: Cooking an egg, and not just scrambled, is one of the techniques that demonstrates a truly great chef. The technique is the question, not taste, although one generally depends on the other.

How well does that work on brown eggs? Brown eggs are local in New England based on hen breeds.

And the new Gmail Autopilot... intrigues me...

@jackburnt: My husband has run into trouble with this because we'll be out and about and he won't have his pw db on him. He'll need a password, but (see Palin case below) he generally enters junk in password recovery question fields (or F*** You Buddy on occassion). This means he has a lot of trouble checking…

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@k4gdw: Farmers have always said 'Chickens don't know the time's changed, they just know it's feeding time.'

I have it syncing to my iCalendar, but I enabled offline access, just for backup purposes.

I'm a HUGE fan of crockpot cooking. I generally use it for pot roasts, but have several recipes I regularly use it for. The easiest is:

I posted about this on my blog this morning, along with my basic (not proportonal) recipe. Sundried tomatoes, spinach, feta and egg in an 8" (maybe 10") wheat tortilla. Nummy.

My problem is the sink I have is a pedestal sink. We have a column that goes from basin to floor. We have the box next to the sink, between the litter locker and the cat litter container (converted from a pet food storage container). Since I had no bathroom storage, I bought one of those over the toilet organizers…

I've also used soy yogurt in place of cream in some vegan recipes.

Honestly, I thought Monday would make more sense, giving most carriers a Sunday/Monday weekend, like hairdressers.

I had a 1996 Pontiac Firebird. You know the one with the flip-up headlights. They inevitably broke and I had the one headlight up look going. The mechanic and dealership wanted to replace the entire headlight for > $400. I did some research online and found out the problem was that GM in their infinite wonderful…