I concur with the idea of finding out if there's any more information you can provide for them to help them reach a decision.

We visited our friends Lisa and Michael this weekend. JZ's known Lisa since high school, and Lisa lived in L.A. for years working with a small theater company.

Anyway, Lisa has friends down there still in the movie biz and one of them was temping at a plastic surgeon's office. She related a fabulously decadent tale of Courtney Love receiving her regular "Sculptene" injections (apparently something like cheekbones-in-a-syringe), replete with designer pill cocktails, blinged out gangsta dealers in the waiting room, outfit changes between the car and the parking lot and Courtney's doped up, erratic behavior which was fully cosseted by Assistants 1 and 2.

Also, Jessica Alba apparently receives a monthly $7,000 full body "skin tightening" (?) treatment. Something with frickin' lasers.

Okay. E-mail sent off. I did not say "please call me because I want to keep working at home, not go work for stupid engineers."

I did not say "please call me because I want to keep working at home, not go work for stupid engineers."

That was politic of you.

so, funny story...

I hadn't mailed in my taxes yet - tax guy emails me, says send them overnight. I go to fedex and realize I only have a PO Box for him, so I drop him an email, but then also try google thinking I can find it there. Turns out, my tax guy, arraigned on tax evasion and grand larcery charges last Oct.

I am trying to find out now what happened if there was a court date. really glad I did not mail those off yet.

So, hivemind - what online tax programs do you like?

We like Turbo Tax, msbelle.

I use TaxCut, but haven't actually looked at anything else.

I use TaxCut, but haven't actually looked at anything else.

This is me.

I'm not sure if my taxes were more complicated this year or if they've changed some of the language around, but I found it more difficult to navigate this year than last.

Wow, msbelle, craziness! I've used both TurboTax and TaxCut (the online versions of each) and like TsxCut better. When my taxes got slightly complicated, TaxCut handled the weird stuff better and I had an easier time figuring out what was going on where TurboTax took the same information and gave me a different outcome and I couldn't figure out why. So, short version, I like TaxCut.

Though I haven't even looked at it for this year. I should really do that.

Turns out, my tax guy, arraigned on tax evasion and grand larcery charges last Oct.

Holy crap!

I am so fidgety and wanting to go home and nap today. It's super quiet here which isn't helping.