Day: February 7, 2005

Taxes:

Done for the year. At least my Federal ones are. I need to file that early so I can get my return in time to pay my State return.

I can see how tempting it is for some to cheat the sytem. Using the software, I frequently change variables just to see what kind of difference it makes.

What would happen if I witheld a little more?
What would happen if I donated more?
What would happen if I sold the house for $500,000
What would happen if I sold one of the kids for $500,000
What would happen if our June baby was born 6 months premature.

But, when I fix all those “what-ifs” things pretty much work out even. I guess that is the way it is supposed to be. I should have a zero return. That means I am doing everything right, but that early spring suprise of a couple thousand dollars is always welcome.

But that is not happening this year. We are pretty much breaking even.

Oh yeah…

Here is where I am supposed to make a nice statement about how I should feel blessed that I have money to worry about in the first place. I have felt that way in the past. I will feel that way tomorrow. I just don’t feel that way now. I am going to close my eyes, go to bed and dream of tax forms, deductions, investments and audits.

On Saturday night, my Daughter became my sister.

To tease the issue, I will explain it in a later posting…

No one reads this, or so I thought.

I made an effort to post every week (or 3), but then I was “talked to” during lunch today. A couple co-workers mentioned that they haven’t seen any new posts in a few days.

I mentioned that I really didn’t have a whole lot to say, and was reminded that, in “Blogland”, that really doesn’t matter. Content is second only to “freshness”.

I learned, quite some time ago, that it takes 3 weeks to establish a good (or evil) habit. I have decided to hurry the process along and see if I can establish a habit in 2 weeks. I have made a promise to these “lunch-buddies” that I would post something new every day for the next 2 weeks.

If I fail, I will take them out to Olive Garden (actually, that part isn’t true… I just included it to make sure they are paying attention.).

So, here goes… I am switching into “hyper-blog”.