Archive for January, 2010

• Brave New Specs
  barrieabalard, January 7th, 2010 at 12:01 am, Comments: 0

  Prescription glasses ordered over the Internet? Folks, you know I had to check it out. I was way overdue for an eye exam—I could barely read the third-to-top line of the eye chart with my glasses ON—so yesterday, I took my coupon for a $49 exam and had the deed done by a local optometrist. [...]

• As Midnight Fell Last Night Across the USA, States and the IRS Were Keeping Close Watch of Time. Why?
  IRON100, January 1st, 2010 at 12:01 am, Comments: 0

  At the stroke of midnight, the Federal Estate Tax goes to zero, as opposed to the threshold limit of taxation being above 3.5 million dollars as it is for 2009.