Party Party Taxes Taxes

I FINALLY located the English MP3 of that addictive "party party join us" song from the closing credits of the "Crayon Shin-Chan" Japanese anime. There were plenty of YouTube videos, but I wanted an MP3. That short song was almost as hard to find as an MP3 of the "Kim Possible" ring tone. It's playing on my myspace page if you want to hear it. The lyrics are cute too:

Pari Jona Daisakusen ("Party Join Us Daisakusen")
By Maron Koushaku


Woke up late this morning
A storm was really rollin’
Frogs and dogs were raining from the sky
Everything seems awkward to me
Nothing's just as it should be
If this keeps on I’m sure I won’t get by

But then I close my eyes and try to smile
I know things are bad and getting worse
But after all this I can rest awhile
And then I’ll party party

Party Party Join us Join us
Party Party Join us Join us
Party Party Join us Join us
Shake your day away and you can
Party Party Join us Join us
Party Party Join us Join us
Party Party Join us Join us
Shake your blues away

(switches to Reggae' music)
Yo Reggae vacation Mon
This party’s shakin'
and it ain’t just shakin' me here
I see that smile
You’re grinnin' ear to ear
Sing this song
And you should really sing it clear
Just sing along with us

Party Party Join us Join us
Party Party Join us Join us
Party Party Join us Join us
Shake your day away and you can
PARTY PARTY. PARTY PARTY. PARTY PARTY.

I had an unexpected surprise last week. I've been holding onto a few special domain names for several years at about $10/year each, expecting to eventually find a buyer for them. I just sold one for over $2k. It was less than I wanted and I'm sure the buyer is going to make it up within a month or two, but still it was a nice return on my investment.

At work I finally had time to complete a simple java POJO that's been hanging over my head for months. For those geeky enough to understand; my new work environment is an XP station with dual monitors, running RAD7 eclipse, using MQ to exchange XML messages with java apps running under AIX WebSphere. I'm trying to include Maven and RichFaces in future projects.

Last weekend Cindy and I spent most of our time pulling our 2007 records from the files. This took much longer than expected because we couldn't locate November and December. I knew they'd all be together somewhere, and I remembered why - I had used them to prepare our 2008 budget back in January. Cindy finally located them on Monday.

Now that all our records are together and any necessary photocopies created, I'm spending this weekend doing the taxes and plugging the data into spreadsheets and TurboTax. I totally forgot this was also the weekend for the deaf expo I wanted to attend. Oh Well; I'll have to miss it. It's pouring rain outside anyway. "Party Party Join Us Join Us".

Syndicated 2008-04-06 20:07:48 (Updated 2008-04-06 20:16:54) from Keith