'Out Of Gas'
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.
The greatest thing that's ever happened in my life (possibly an exaggeration) was when I was home sick one day, or it was a holiday or something, and I turned on one of the judge shows and I had gone to high school with the people!
I used to occasionally watch COPS hoping for this.
When we paid someone to do our taxes it was about $400, so we've done it ourselves ever since. I always did my own for years, but I've handed those duties over to Cody. He's better at it.
I am already sad that it's coming to a close.
Then you can go back and listen to it in Jim Dale's voice for a whole new experience!
I used to occasionally watch COPS hoping for this.
Heh. I should watch that Boston cop show for that, but I think the people I know most likely to be arrested still can't cross the river into Actual Boston.
Once, on an episode of COPS during Mardi Gras, I saw someone I went to high school with. As a cop. That was unexpected.
I think I paId $400 the year I bought my house. It was the year of the first-timer $8K rebate, and my first with a mortgage, so I wasn't comfortable with muddling my way through turbo tax. The next year, I used TurboTax and compared it to the previous year's to see if anything appeared out of sort. It didn't so with the AAA discount, feds and state cost me something like $40.
KC South Patrol was one of the regular locations for COPS, which is totally my old hood. I figure I had even chances of knowing one of the cops or one of the people being arrested.
This is reminding me of when a hoodlum from my high school was the funeral director at my grandfather' funeral!
Tonight, instead of figuring out how much of a seder to provide for myself, I will be working my last inventory. This is somehow both very wrong and oddly appropriate (I think the wrongness adds to the appropriateness, as well). Maybe I'll have a glass of wine with Elijah when I get home.
Before we got married, my taxes were $300, mine have been complicated for years, I usually have between 10 and 40 1099s to deal with, as well as income that isn't included on 1099 forms. I'm hug my accountant and hold him close because he charges a reasonable rate and does great work.