Damn the elements! How come whenever I have to drive somewhere at night the sky decides to open up on me? Both Saturday and Sunday nights coming home from work all sorts of precipitation came raining down on me, making visibility almost nil. Fun stuff I tell you. Then I want to go to the movies on Tuesday to see Dawn of the Dead because that’s bargain night, and of course it starts snowing like crazy. Man, Nature, what the hell did I do to piss you off?

Also wonderful was the fact that I woke up with a cold Friday morning. I’m off work for six whole days and when do I get my freakin’ cold? That’s right, the first day back to work. I just popped pills and cough drops and that seemed to get me through my days, although by the time I got home I was extremely exhausted and didn’t want to do anything. (Remember, add being on my feet for eight hours to having to drive almost an hour to and from work, multiply that by having a cold and having to drive home in white out conditions, and you’ve got one tired Ben.)

So then for my federal taxes I decided to eFile, since as the IRS put it, “It’s as easy as 1-2-3!” 1-2-3 my ass. Maybe as easy as 1-2-3-…1,000. It took me almost two hours to fill out a stupid form for the fucking measly 900 dollars I made last year. What the hell, right? Then I got an email last night saying that the IRS rejected my application because the number I put down for last year’s average gross income or whatever was incorrect. LAST YEAR’S!!! Gah, what the hell!? Fucking IRS. So I went back in to that same stupid webpage, waded through links for a good half hour until I finally got to the one place where I had made a mistake, one number being off. So I corrected that, told the stupid computer ten freakin’ times that, yes, I really did want to eFile, and finally put that through. Hopefully the IRS isn’t going to tell me it is wrong again.

Work went well though. My first weekend on the floor selling and I didn’t do half bad. Sold four Wave CD/Radios, an Acoustic Wave, a pair of 301s, some Tri-ports and put on four shows. (To find out what all that stuff is, or just to check out awesome Bose products, go to http://www.bose.com .) I also bought myself my first Bose product, the FreeStyle system:

(Note: That’s not actually a picture of the FreeStyle, but one of the 3-2-1. The FreeStyle is actually a product they are discontinuing, and thus must no longer be webpage material. The FreeStyle comes with the exact same speakers and base module though, just not the media center. I also got a free Onkyo DVD player as part of this weekend’s promotions though, so just imagine a regular DVD player in that picture instead of the media center and you’ve got a good idea of what I purchased.)

This thing freakin’ sounds awesome. Even though there are only two speakers there are actually two drivers in each speaker firing in opposite directions for Stereo Everywhere sound, and there is technology in the base module that converts 5.1, stereo and mono signals into 5.1 so it sounds amazing. It’s like having an entire home theater system with only two speakers. I’m so pleased with it. It even made one of my crappy kung fu DVDs sound good.

And then I found out the day after I bought it that when I get this month’s bonus it should pay for the entire system and then some. I don’t have to worry about monthly payments or anything. Sweet!