I'm returning too. Same browser and all.

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RE:Free TurboTax - to find it you have to go to the Online tab

Edit: and now, of course I can't find it there either..I swear it was there when I looked a little while ago!

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You guys can get to the free Turbo Tax if you go through the IRS site, if you can't find it anywhere else. IRS.gov has a "free file" link. You can follow that to a list of companies where you can file for free, including TurboTax. If I remember correctly, TurboTax will file Federal for free, and then it's $20 or $30 for State.

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Does anyone know if any of the tax programs do Puerto Rican taxes? I looked on TurboTax today and I don't think they do. I'm bitter that I have to pay tax here.

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I've used TurboTax online the last few years and been perfectly satisfied. This year they have decided that they can't pull my info from previous years because I used the web app instead of desktop, so I might switch to TaxCut on principle.

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This year they have decided that they can't pull my info from previous years because I used the web app instead of desktop, so I might switch to TaxCut on principle.

Yeah, I ran into the same thing -- and while they've been handy for the adding up of numbers and deductions and such, I'm not so in love with them and their consistent failure to make forms that actually print easily on any of my computer/browser combinations that I need to come back to them without the "I've used them before" lock-in factor.

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I'm bitter that I have to pay tax here.

That's called Taxation Without Representation and it's not fair! /Schoolhouse Rock

Have you tried dumping rum into the bay?

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Dinner update: omlette is tangy (thank you, feta!) and rich (thank you, avocado!) and my belly is growing happy. English muffin soon to follow omlette.

Resume normal conversation.

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I've been doing the Weight Watchers Core diet lately, which seems to work pretty well for me. (Basically, there's a list of foods that you can eat -- fruits and veggies, beans, whole grains, fat-free dairy, lean meat -- and then you're allowed 35 points per week of whatever else you want. Some weeks, the 35 points works out to little things at each meal -- sugar on my oatmeal, real cheese rather than fat-free in a casserole, a whole wheat roll with dinner -- and sometimes I save it up to cover going out to dinner and drinks on the weekend.)

Yes, this. Although I've been crappy with the gym-going this week. Crappy crappy crappy. And walking half an hour every day is an excellent rule of thumb - I'm loosely aiming to do that (because in theory I walk to work and back 5 days a week, which is a 15 minute walk each way - except sometimes I get the sky train off to some other place and go shopping, or whatever, and I don't tend to think of the shopping or whatever as counting as exercise) but I think I shall now make it a rule to make sure I DO do it every day.

You people on the Core plan impress me, because I looked at it and knew it would drive me crazy. I've (mostly) managed to stick with the Flex plan. I say mostly because there have been weeks when I have been not-so-good about keeping track of my food. But, I've lost 36lbs in a little over a year and a half; more importantly, while I may hit plateaus (like recently, *sigh*), I haven't gained any of the weight BACK.

Go Team with the no regaining! Excellent! It's funny, though - the prospect of Flex drives me crazy, with all the point-counting. Go figure!

I only lost 7 lbs last week.

Respectfully - WTF? There is no 'only' in this sentence. Expecting to lose more than half a stone a week is not realistic, surely, as a long-term weightloss strategy. I mean, Go You with losing half a stone in a week.

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FWIW, we've all seen pictures of you and think you're beautiful

Aww, thanks.

I am totally, hugely missing Matilda. Work is stupid and boring and I hate it.

I can believe that. I wish there was something truly helpful to say.

My fever is up to 100 now and I have a headache. Feh.

I hope you get clear of this fever virus without as much trouble as the fellas have been having.

Aimee, I am very, very glad you were not hurt in your bumper-cars adventure.

Sparky, a trip to Paris sounds like a great reward for all the packing and unpacking. Hope you have a brilliant time.

Nothing big--lots of little nibbled-to-death-by-ducks stuff.

Hmm, I bet duck hunting is a great way for the whole gang of us to vent some stress.... Stupid ducks, needed killin' anyway.

In a completely different bodies-are-weird vein (oh, yes, I did that on purpose, you can kill me later), why are eyelashes not anchored into folicles as strongly as, say, arm hairs? I hate that every time I feel like I have something on my lash line like lint or a cat hair, and pull gently at it, several lashes come out. It's weird, because it always feels so good when it's happening, like I've made something that didn't belong there go away.

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