Tickled like you wouldn't believe

Ohmighod I just got fan e-mail about my ancient Egyptian doll from Gillian Vogelsang-Eastwood! I'm going to have to wait a couple hours before I reply or I'm just going to fan-geek at her embarassingly.

The numbers, they are crunched

Well, I think I have the numbers all ready for the tax man tomorrow. Normally at this point I have a sense of what the overall result is going to be, but there are too many unknowns (like what the depreciation basis for my house ought to be -- there are several possibilities). I think I'm getting a fair chunk back because when they ran the numbers back a year ago to figure what I should be paying in estimated tax for the capital gains, we didn't figure in any of the more major deductions that home ownership was going to net me (like mortgage interest deductions). Once I have this transitional year behind me, I'm feeling confident I should be able to go back to doing the taxes myself. (And I'm already getting ideas for modifications to my regular financial spread sheets that will streamline future tax work. I love Excel.) Oooh! Ooooh! and I got to do a linear regression analysis for work today! Already the statistics class is paying off.