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This is stupidity in action. Tax law: Are you eating those pumpkins? - Yahoo News. If I were to purchase a pumpkins in Iowa to make pies, and I do make my pumpkin pies from fresh pumpkins, I need to fill out a form to get a tax exemption from the Iowa Department of Revenue.

They need to be careful, or else it will create an underground industry of pumpkin smugglers or bootleggers. Women will be recruited to be mules to smuggle pumpkins into the state pretending to be pregnant.

Today was the beginning of a huge layoffs at AOL. It was a very sad day to be at work. I watched as my friends and coworkers packed up their cubes and left the building. Even my manager was among the approximatly 750 people that are laid off. Most of everyone I have talked to can’t understand the capriciousness of the lay offs. Some of the groups in the company were completely laid off. One of the Network Operation Centers (NOC) in Columbus Ohio was dismantled. A NOC that we relied on to monitor our systems.

There was little work done today at the Dulles campus. By mid afternoon most people had left for the day or were rambling around the campus still numb from the sheer number and severity of the layoffs.

It’s been a while since my last post, but I just wanted to share an exiting event that I went to on Sunday. I went to a Billy Ray Cyrus mini-concert. This is the first time that I have seen a real celebrity in person. Billy was there to promote Toys for Tots’ 60th Anniversary and Tonka. He only sang four songs, one of them was his most popular and my most favorite–Achy Breaky Heart. We had VIP seating so we sat four rows from center stage. It was well attended and to my surprise, many kids showed up to see Hannah Montana’s dad. I think they were hoping to see Hannah.