never do your taxes before bedtime

I made that serious mistake tonight. I started plugging it all in to Turbo Tax, including that inoculous form from my freelance work, and thus I discovered I was screwed. For the first time since I started doing my own taxes, that little box at the top of the screen doesn't show green numbers, what I am getting back. It's showing red numbers. A lot of them.

So far this week hasn't gotten off to a good start. I had a trip to the dentist today, which is costing me money because of stuff I now need to fix. Now this whole tax thing. Shit, man. The crampy, sick feeling in the pit of my stomach, that has been gnawing at me big time since Saturday... It's keeping me awake. It's 12:45 in the morning. School is not going to agree with me tomorrow.

Nnnrrrggghhh...

enraptured

I finally got my hands on a new computer! I don't really consider it to be totally mine, as my parents had to go out of their way to get it for me, and somehow I need to pay them back...

Nice thing is, its my first really good laptop. I'm not really used to the mobility it gives me. But I'm starting to realize the possibilities.

Thus I sit here, in a cool, 70s type beach cafe near my house, making use of the coffee and the free internet. Its a neat, slightly rundown type place, but it is cool enough to have a big flat screen tv on one wall. When I came in this evening, they were playing episodes of Planet Earth, and its been running all evening. The episode playing right now is the one on Oceans, and there are shots of dolphins in Australia surfing the waves to get nearer to the beach. I look up, and the entire cafe is staring, enraptured, at the shots of the dolphins.

There are the odd disparaging comments about weird stuff in each episode, but still, how often do you look up to see a dozen and a half hipsters staring at the wonders of our planet?

Pretty cool.