Ah. I like having control over my thermostat. Of course, now that I'm paying my own gas, I may not like it quite as much.
Ah jeez, msbelle. Leave your coat on.
Kaylee: So how many fell madly in love with you and wanted to take you away from all this? Inara: Just the one. I think I'm slipping.
'Serenity'
Natter 32 Flavors and Then Some
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
sarameg - Feb 01, 2005 5:30:16 am PST #2766 of 10002
Jesse - Feb 01, 2005 5:32:26 am PST #2767 of 10002
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
In the apartment, I'm OK with unlimited heat, since I can just keep the windows open. And I don't pay for it.
bon bon - Feb 01, 2005 5:40:48 am PST #2768 of 10002
It's five thousand for kissing, ten thousand for snuggling... End of list.
In related tax commentary, I heart Turbo Tax so much that I have my return all ready to go-- took only 30 minutes for state and federal. But trying to avoid Jesse's predicament. I hate waiting for my refund! I'm looking at you CITIBANK and your missing 1099-INT!
I have a query for y'all. Bob sent me a link to a National Review article about why there are so many more males in the comedy business than females and it contained the following:
In my 15 years in the sitcom business, I have worked side-by-side with 30 different women writers. Ten of them have since gone on to be show-runners, the highest rank a TV writer can attain, short of David Kelley, who is show-runner-married-to-movie-star.
My recollection is that a show-runner is actually one step below the executive producer/creator (Angel's Minear to Whedon)-- and I kind of doubt Kelley does that much show running, given how many he cranks out. Is it true that this is the highest rank a TV writer can attain?
Cashmere - Feb 01, 2005 5:45:58 am PST #2769 of 10002
Now tagless for your comfort.
Did anyone else using Turbo Tax get the free federal filing? When I logged on to TT using my bookmark, I didn't get it. But buy using the link at irs.gov (after I had already entered my information) I got the federal filing free (and half-priced state filing). Saved me about $40 for both returns and I'm getting everything direct deposited.
msbelle - Feb 01, 2005 5:48:36 am PST #2770 of 10002
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb
I got out all my tax info last night to prepare it for my tax guy, but then I didn't do it. Tonight I must. betting on a big refund.
know what's good? hot chocolate. That was my breakfast proxy today.
Jessica - Feb 01, 2005 5:51:07 am PST #2771 of 10002
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
Technically, EP isn't a writing position, even though in practice television producers are overwhelmingly mostly writer-producers, and I've never heard of a show-runner who wasn't also a co-EP. The creator-EP probably gets paid more, but the showrunner has more day-to-day control.
Nora Deirdre - Feb 01, 2005 5:54:26 am PST #2772 of 10002
I’m responsible for my own happiness? I can’t even be responsible for my own breakfast! (Bojack Horseman)
Did anyone else using Turbo Tax get the free federal filing?
That's why we use it.
Cashmere - Feb 01, 2005 5:59:01 am PST #2773 of 10002
Now tagless for your comfort.
That's why we use it.
When I filled my return out just using my old bookmark from last year, I was charged $9.95. But when I logged out and went through the IRS website, I got that fee waved. And the additional money off my state filing.
It wasn't advertised on TT's site--just on the IRS site. Last year it was only people 65 & over or people filing under a certain amount that got the free thing. At least I know I paid for using TT last year.
Jesse - Feb 01, 2005 6:06:10 am PST #2774 of 10002
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
It makes so much sense to me that the IRS would want people filing online -- it's got to be so much easier for them.
TomW - Feb 01, 2005 6:14:10 am PST #2775 of 10002
"The fact that we live at the bottom of a deep gravity well, on the surface of a gas covered planet going around a nuclear fireball 90 million miles away and think this to be normal is obviously some indication of how skewed our perspective tends to be."
We actually use TaxCut from the box, which has a mail in rebate for free federal filing.
I think I used TurboTax on the web last year or the year before to do my state filing. Whichever year it was that Mass. decided to stop their own free web filing and funnel the business to TurboTax instead (who says that lobbyists don't earn their salaries). They gave a one-off voucher that year for people who had used the old system.
It was very annoying when Mass. dropped the free web filing. It was really quick and really easy, but never advertised and pretty hard to find on their web site. Then they dropped it due to lack of interest. Maybe if you'd told people about it, they might have used it!