This and That
Apr. 11th, 2006 08:50 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
hrjI got all the new plants into the ground on Sunday and it conveniently has rained ever since, giving them a good start. But hope glimmers: the long-range forecast seems to think that after this weekend we'll have sun for a couple weeks, and a couple weeks is as good as summer at this point.
The tax people gave me the draft returns for the partnership and my estimated extra tax to pay. It hardly seems fair that I have to pay income tax (actually capital gains tax) on hypothetical money that I only received on paper. Now I have to make sure that I have enough rental-related expenses to recoup a good part of it.
For half of the last year my gym iPod listening has been audio-book versions of the Unfortunate Series of Events stories. But, alas, the available volumes (although not the series) have run out and I've turned to exploring pod-casts. I'm no longer in danger of missing "Wait, Wait, Don't Tell Me", and the Onion snippets are fun but not particularly filling. There's a fun BBC "experts talk about some historic or literary topic" show -- I forget the name at the moment. And yesterday I discovered a site with "langsam gesprochene Nachrichten" (news spoken slowly (in German)). I've been meaning to try to brush up on my German a little. (Maybe eventually I'll get up the nerve to speak German to some of my German co-workers.) Now if only I could find a similar site for Welsh. I ran across a music/talk show in Welsh (but with only a couple of installments) but it's too non-linear and colloquial for me to follow very easily. I really need training wheels for my language practice.
Somewhat peculiar SCA happenings: I've been asked to serve on a court. Now that's something that doesn't happen every day. I said, sure why not?
The tax people gave me the draft returns for the partnership and my estimated extra tax to pay. It hardly seems fair that I have to pay income tax (actually capital gains tax) on hypothetical money that I only received on paper. Now I have to make sure that I have enough rental-related expenses to recoup a good part of it.
For half of the last year my gym iPod listening has been audio-book versions of the Unfortunate Series of Events stories. But, alas, the available volumes (although not the series) have run out and I've turned to exploring pod-casts. I'm no longer in danger of missing "Wait, Wait, Don't Tell Me", and the Onion snippets are fun but not particularly filling. There's a fun BBC "experts talk about some historic or literary topic" show -- I forget the name at the moment. And yesterday I discovered a site with "langsam gesprochene Nachrichten" (news spoken slowly (in German)). I've been meaning to try to brush up on my German a little. (Maybe eventually I'll get up the nerve to speak German to some of my German co-workers.) Now if only I could find a similar site for Welsh. I ran across a music/talk show in Welsh (but with only a couple of installments) but it's too non-linear and colloquial for me to follow very easily. I really need training wheels for my language practice.
Somewhat peculiar SCA happenings: I've been asked to serve on a court. Now that's something that doesn't happen every day. I said, sure why not?
