Sunday morning

I drove down the street to the White Hen convenience store this morning. They always have good fresh coffee, and I had a coupon for a free muffin with the purchase of a 20 oz coffee. I picked out a big fresh bran muffin. Very good.

Sheri is not feeling well and is back in bed asleep. I am in the office with my muffin and coffee. I have the race on TV and I am going to pay a couple of bills and then start on our taxes.

I want to install this year's Turbo Tax on the new computer, but pull in last years Turbo Tax files from the old computer, but for the last week or two we couldn't get the two computers to see each other. So that has been the show stopper for me doing our taxes so far. This morning I sat down, determined to figure it out, and I did. I installed the excellent free firewall software, ZoneAlarm from Zone Labs, a couple of weeks ago. By default it doesn't let any other network devices see the computer it is on, and it doesn't let the computer it is on see any other network devices. I had to go to the configuration window and tell it that the old computer is trusted and that it can talk to it. (If you go to download ZoneAlarm, go to the Zone Labs web site, click on the "Download & Buy" button, and then scroll down to the bottom of the page and click on the "Free Download" button. They have other products that are not free, like ZoneAlarm Pro and ZoneAlarm Plus, which are also excellent, but the free one does most of what the other ones do. Anyone connected to the internet should have this program installed! We have it installed in addition to our hardware firewall and our antivirus software. No excuses, just do it. Let me know if you have any questions or concerns.

I want to get our taxes done and out of the way before I start class on Tuesday.