13:41 – I’m still working on taxes. Grrrrrr. As is true every year, I find myself wishing that I could visit the graves of everyone who was responsible for creating state and federal income taxes, dig up the bodies, and urinate on them. In my fantasy, we all get one email a year from the federal and state governments, saying “just send in whatever you think is reasonable, if anything”. Instead, I have to waste lots of time complying with IRS and NC Department of Revenue record-keeping requirements and then waste lots more time getting that mass of data together at tax time, and then waste yet more time organizing it and running the numbers, all to find out how badly they’re going to rape us this year.
Oh, well. At least 2012 was an okay year, and 2013 is shaping up to be much better than 2012. I suppose we should consider ourselves lucky. Our house is paid for, we have money in the bank, we have no debt other than a small car loan, and we don’t have to choose which bills to pay and which to put off paying or to lie awake nights worrying about money. There are an awful lot of people out there who wish they were in our shoes.