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Gone, Not To Far, Now Back

farrelley — Fri, 26 Oct 2007 12:32:16 +0000

Wow it’s been busy. Work has been taking most of my life since my last post and probably will continue till December 1st. I have been trying not to let it take over so I haven’t been doing any work on the weekends. This Saturday Jen and I are going up to Tampa to see the Buffalo Sabres Vs. Tampa Bay Lighting Hockey Game. I am really excited; I haven’t been to a NHL game in about 2 years.

It’s the end of October and our first cold front has pushed through Southwest Florida. It has been in the 90’s and humid every day and when the temp and humidity drops, even if it’s just to 80 you feel it. Fortunately today when I left for work the temperature was 66. Last night we were able to have dinner on the lanai and it was comfortable.

NHL Center Ice has taken over my TV life. This is pretty much all that I like to do at night time. Throw on a game and work on the computer. The best part is that I have seen all the Buffalo Sabres Games so far, though 3-5 isn’t anything to brag about. 14 channels of hockey probably was the best $149.00 I spent (at least on TV programming).

I have ordered my new TV! It’s a Sony (go figure) 50’ SXRD Rear Projection (Model: KDS-50A3000). This is going to make watching TV so much better. Jen thinks it’s to big but I guarantee she will love it. I can’t wait to see the Wink News cast in high def and Hockey. I sense more TV watching coming on.

Writting off that Move

farrelley — Sun, 28 Jan 2007 20:47:10 +0000

Recently I moved to Florida for work reasons, a new job. Anyways, I saved all my receipts and that was a good thing. If you moved because of work then you are in luck. Get this, it’s not just people moving because they got new jobs. College students can take advantage of this for there first job too! So here is the deal. If you moved more that 50 miles from your previous job and are going to work 39 weeks in the first 12 months then you qualify. Easy as that. So what can you deduct? Well here is a list of deductible items;

Cost of packing
Gas, or mileage. For 2006 its $0.18 a mile.
Storage expenses for 30 days
Fees to start and turn off services. Such as gas, electric, cable.
Lodging and much more.

I will be taking advantage of this and you should too! For more information on how to deduct your moving expenses check out the IRS and SmartMoney.com

Location Change, Job Change, Life Change?

farrelley — Sat, 17 Jun 2006 01:43:26 +0000

Well I know I have said this before but a lot has happened since I last posted, and I mean a lot. The main item is that I am no longer in New York. That may come as a surprise to some of you! Sorry if you didn’t know, you do now. So here is the story. About 3 months back Jen had gotten a job down here in Florida, oh yeah, I now live in Fort Myers, FL (thats the second item), and I told her that if she liked the area I would consider looking. Well, I guess she liked it. With my old job at ePlus, things where just staying stead, I wasn’t moving anywhere, and I was seeing many things that I didn’t like within the company. To make a long story short I decided to start posting the resume out and I accepted a job in Fort Myers with SONY Electronics as an Application Developer, or in better terms, a Web Developer. This position was just what I was looking for!

So I have been in Fort Myers for only about 4 days and so far I love the area. It’s hot and sunny, and near the beach, or pool if you don’t want to drive the 20 or so mins. Work starts Monday so more will come on that next week. Pictures will be on my flickr site soon I just don’t have a good connection to the internet. Right now we are using Samantha’s internet connection and can only be accessed in the dinning room. And for all you wondering how I know whose internet it really is, is because Samantha didn’t lock down her wireless router and I logged into it by using the http://192.168.1.1 with the username and password of “admin”. Word to the wise, LOCK you WIRELESS ROUTERS, and CHANGE the password!

Busy, Busy

farrelley — Wed, 25 Jan 2006 18:52:47 +0000

It’s been busy lately. Last week or so I bought a gym membership from Rochester Institute of Technology so that has been keeping me busy. I have to get my money’s worth you know. It wasn’t that expensive, only $60.00 for 2 months. This isn’t bad considering I get full run of all facilities! I have been going at around 5pm if anyone wants to join for some weights and such. Also I have lots of web projects that I have been working on. I’m in the process of working on one right now (www.creativeteachingcompany.com) and two other ones are in the workings (still in the planning phases) and the third (www.moraviabands.org) needs some updates. So as you can see all of this along with work brings blogging to a hold. I’m going to try to keep up with it but we will see. I know now never to promise anything. Other than that nothing is new. My cold (sinuses) is gone and I have uploaded some other pictures from Florida. Till the next entry, stay warm, or cold. Never know what the weather is like in NY. Today it’s snowing so stay warm.

On Vacation

farrelley — Wed, 04 Jan 2006 10:17:02 +0000

I’m on vacation from the 4th through the 10th. There will be no blogging till the 11th. I’ll be in Sunny Florida!

Independence Air to call it Quits?

farrelley — Fri, 30 Dec 2005 00:18:02 +0000

It’s been reported by the Washington Post that Independence Air (flyi) will be closing the doors on January 7th 2006. It’s hard to understand but I guess there are a lot of start-up costs in an airline. I have flown two round trips on flyi and they were great and the price was excellent. Independence Air who filed bankruptcy months earlier has been rated one of the top 5 airlines in 4 major categories by its fliers. It will be sad to see Independence Air to go away. Hopefully, someone investor can put up some money to keep them alive. This will also mean that ePlus (my employer) will have to find a new airline. Our corporate office was in Dullas, VA so it was cheap and easy to use flyi.
On a side note, I’m glad that I didn’t reserve our Tampa, FL tickets with flyi. I will be traveling during the week they plan to stop service. That wouldn’t be a good thing if I wanted to come home on the 10th of January.

Today’s Quote

farrelley — Sun, 11 Dec 2005 17:07:00 +0000

Wegman’s is the Harvard of Supermarkets!

- James Tsung ePlus Christmas Party

Another One Bites the Dust

farrelley — Wed, 08 Jun 2005 12:27:39 +0000

12:01A.M. and I was just getting home from my slow pitch softball game. Now its 8:20ish the next day and I have been at work for just over 1 hour. Let me tell you, I am one tired person. Last night I went to the bar for about one hour, just before our game which started at 10:15P.M. The game started on time but we dragged it out with lots of runs and stranded base runners. It was a pretty good game even though we lost. During the day I was told that I might have to pitch but when it was game time I was to be found in center field. Nothing was hit to me except for some grounders. Had one god hit to third and one Strike out but didn’t score on any hits. Looks like I’ll be buying the first pitcher of beer next game for going down swinging.

This weekend I am going to head home to do some landscape work with my father and celebrate his birthday. I know that both my brothers want to see my new car so I might have to do some driving this weekend. Next week maybe…I can make it to Ikea with Brian and Allison, but that’s a big maybe. However before any of that can be done, Today is Laundry Day!