Oh! I really meant "7 days in the future". How about today? Great! We enter day 5 of Jason's version of Home Alone. Its not as exciting as I was hoping for, but I'm still getting more sleep. Lynn is enjoying her time in Chicago, meeting lots of friends and relatives. I've managed to stay out of trouble here myself, going hiking and keeping spending to a minimum (notice how minimum has no reference... mu ha ha ha).

Today my group from work is going hiking in the Columbia river gorge. Hopefully things go well, as I hurt my knee on Saturday hiking in the very same area. It feels pretty good today, so we'll see what happens.

Did everyone get their taxes done? I received an email from TurboTax this AM saying that Uncle Sam had accepted my submission. Whew! Just doing your taxes with that software isn't enough... you have to submit them too! Who would have guessed?

Anyways, I need to get going. I bought a Camelbak water backpack and I love it! If you want to go on any sort of long hike, get one!


-Jason

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