February 13

Post 741, Day 44 of 2013
 - and 775 days since I started this blog -

Daily Comment

I don't want to belabor the point, but...

When I first started filing tax returns, at the age of 16, I did them myself. When I incorporated in 1970 (Ice Nine, Inc., and no, I didn't realize that was the name of the Grateful Dead's publishing company), I got an accountant, a friend of the family, to do them for me. That only lasted three years. Then I went off the grid for a few years (nothing but cash income), and when I went back on (in 1975, I worked for six months at a friend's company in order to get fired and participate in an Unemployment education program), my grandmother, who had trained to be an H&R Block preparer, did them for me. 

Once I started working for IBM, I did them myself, again.

When the first version of Turbotax came out, in the late 1980s, I started using software to prepare my Federal return, and a few years later, when it was available for North Carolina, I did all my returns by computer.

So I have been doing my taxes myself for forty-three of the last forty-eight years. 

This year, and only this year, it has all gotten fucked-up. A small glitch in the software I used didn't paste over highlighted fields, and my Federal refund got sent to a defunct checking account, and my e-filing for NY State has not been accepted after four weeks.

I know what will happen in the case of the Federal return - they'll process the refused deposit and cut me a check and send it to me through the post office. That should take about six more weeks.

What's going on with NY? No clue, and no idea what to do about it.

And that's what's on my mind now.

And now, for something completely weird. As I put the period on that last sentence - quite literally, I am not playing with time...

I got a text message saying my NY tax return had been accepted.

I'm speechless.

You heard it here first.

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 Food and Diet Section

First-half year 2013 daily weight

Today's Weight:         205.0 lbs

Yesterday's Weight:     205.6 lbs

Day Net Loss/Gain:      - 0.6 lbs

Diet Comment

I will take a small loss.

Food Log 

Breakfast
Cocoa-Kale-hemp protein shake (Almond milk, hemp seeds, kale, chia seeds, a large egg, cocoa, vanilla whey powder (24g protein), cinnamon, stevia-inulin blend).

Lunch

Roasted turkey on Spring Mix greens with baby spinach and cole slaw mix and balsamic vinaigrette.

Snack
Pepperoni.

Dinner

Chili (organic chopped beef, black beans, mushrooms, tomatoes, spices) with "Oriental vegetables" from the take-out at Wegman's.

Snack
Celery and home-made spicy mayonnaise.

Liquid Intake   

   Coffee:  20 oz,  Water:  64+ oz.

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