I am trying to do taxes. Technology is thwarting me, though. Sigh.

Plei, is Lilly back to being Lilly, or still Lillian? Matilda may want to make her a card, and she'll want to get it exactly right.

Oh, she's always been Lilly. I'm the only one who ever calls her Lillian.

::grumble:: Work is sending me to Greensboro NC on Wednesday and I will be there for a week, but due to the schedule (12 to 14 hour workdays expected) and shared transportation I can't figure out any way to try to visit the NC-istas just down the road. I will wave tiredly in their direction .

OK. Everyone do your taxes!!! Then bask in victory.

AHAHAHAHAHAHAHA. Yeah, we can't do our taxes yet, because our accountant of SEVENTEEN YEARS retired. And didn't tell us until Pete called last weekend.

Oh dear! You would think that would be a thing to announce early.

You'd think, wouldn't you? Yeah, not a happy day at the House o' Reason.

Okay, I finished.

I think I'll let it percolate a while and check it for errors, maybe tomorrow. But it looks like if I'm correct, we'll be paying just over half of what we did last year. I hope that's right.

Jilli,

that is almost as bad as years ago when I schedule a doctor's appt and was told she had moved to a different state.

I need to do stuff on taxes too, but I took the in-laws to the airport at 6, came home, read a little, and went back to sleep until almost noon.

Now I have some serious TV catching-up to do.

Tipping question: a coworker was working a birthday party rental this Saturday. It's an additional source of revenue for the Children's Education Dept. The parent tipped her. She was feeling guilty and was debating whether to put part or all of it towards the remaining balance owed by the parent. (I objected, but I am poor and take handouts with no argument).

Then she revealed that our former DD had explicitly told the other CHED staffer that if she EVER got a tip, she was to put it all into our org's coffers.

I was kinda bullshit on the first part, and horrified on the second tidbit. But I don't know the morality/legality of it, or what the Thing To Do is. For all I know, giving a generous tip on an unpaid balance could be, what, bribe money to ignore the balance?

Once I called my OB's office to schedule my annual, and was told she had died (several months earlier).

For all I know, giving a generous tip on an unpaid balance could be, what, bribe money to ignore the balance?

That's certainly what it sounds like to me. Which is bullshit - what business is going to ignore an unpaid balance because you gave an employee a tip??

The master bedroom is SPARKLING. I moved two bookcases and dusted/vacuumed ALL THE THINGS. The other rooms will just have to wait.

Kids are watching Totoro for the second time this weekend. Yesterday was Aeryn's first movie in a movie theater, which was pretty fun. (Dylan's first movie in a theater was Ponyo. We've been lucky to always have a Miyazaki film available at just the right age.)