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Sunday! SUNDAY!! SUNDAYYYYY!!

Well, obviously, there was church, which was just as it should have been, and there was a get-together for the elementary kids afterwards, which was also just as it should have been.

It was what happened when we got home that was so far out of the ordinary that it defies all expectations.

I did my taxes.

WITH THE COMPUTER!!

Yes, believe it or not, I actually broke down and finally bought one of them there new-fangledy eeelectronical doohickeys that you do your taxes with. I chose the H&R Block version, mainly because it was cheaper on the front end versus the TurboTax version. A long-time devotee of paper and pencil, I just got tired of fighting it, and wanted something I could sit down and do quickly, without nearly so much fighting with paperwork and my own propensity for forgetting important math skills such as adding and subtracting.

Mine have always been straightforward, and really, it's not that much trouble to do, but the lure of getting both the Alabama and Federal forms done at once, and not having to worry about mailing stuff in, and then the even better incentive of getting my refund back in only a couple of weeks just made me say, "Eh, whatever."

Anyway, it was very easy. I had to break off so we could go to evening services, but after I got back to it after supper, it only took a bit over an hour and a half to finish up both returns and send them off over the wire for processing.

I'm not sure why this week was the Week of Technology, but the rapid pace of change--RAM upgrade, DSL, and computerized tax preparation and filing--why, it almost makes my head spin! Next thing you know, I'll be doing podcasts like all the cool kids!

Nah.

Anyway, it has been an interesting week.

Posted by Terry Oglesby at March 27, 2006 02:46 PM