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Apart from accounting professionals who make their living interpreting government economic legalese, I suspect tax season in the United States is the least favorite time of year from anyone required to file, or - in the case of this year’s “rebate” - anyone who wants to cash in on some government overspend.

I dread April 15th for many reasons: the inane tax rules, where my money is spent or just having to carve time out of my life to deal with them. I can think of no activity worse except, perhaps, root canal or cancer treatments (and I’ve had the latter).

We fared better this year than most. Moving actually helped, though you cannot deduct nearly as much as one might expect. I also had the joy of TurboTax (for the Mac) crashing three times, with two of the crashes resulting in some data re-entry (I save/copy and work from solid copies and also print/verify the data on the forms before e-filing, so no worries). More on Turbo Tax and Nathan Vander Wilt’s excellent & simple Numbers alternative on The Apple Blog.

While I/we haven’t posted much on the blog, suffice it to say for all readers that Mary is kinda not doing so well right now. It’s health-related, and she hasn’t cleared it for mass public consumption to e-mail, IM or direct Tweet me and I’ll give you the skinny in private. It’s going to be a difficult couple months, but things will hopefully start picking up after that.

Ian’s eczema really kicked in again this weekend despite daily doses of prescription elixirs. He has massive trouble napping and all but refused to go to sleep tonight. Back to the ped again for him if it doesn’t get better. I don’t recall giving him any of the foods he’s allergic to, but even a small amount can do him in for a day. Apart from the cranky sleep time, he’s the most wonderful little boy ever. Sentences are just pouring out of him now and you can have a pretty decent & meaningful conversation with him (as meaningful as a conversation with a two year old gets, anyway).

We missed Mars Hill as a result tonight, just when I was probably going to finally meet both Adam and Dustin in person and be there for the unveiling of “The City”. Links, et al, once I get to see it first! It was also way too cold to head out today - not that I had time, given the whole tax-prep-thing.

While I’m complaining alot (I just re-read the previous paragraphs), we have much to be extremely thankful for, too. We just need to get past this late-March, early-April garbage that seems to amass every year. Strangely enough, we usually have the same happen in the fall (and it’s usually car-related). At least we expect these things now!

I should be back to regular blogging this week, with most of the non-personal stuff moving to a new site (and not warpdriveactive.net - Mary has usurped that for her own evil purposes) and my TAB posts getting more regular/consistent. I still haven’t quite found my “rhythm” out here, but I’m getting there.

RDN Out…

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