It sure is nice to have a Thursday where I know I have the evening off for a change. Since I already did my Lenten service thing at Wayside yesterday evening, and I helped the guest preacher Wednesday morning, that means I get to take the night off from service - and even from a board meeting, which is a very welcome change of pace as well. I have no idea what I’m going to do with that time, but at least I know I have it.
I had four sermons to give in the last three weeks, and that level of business was precisely the reason I didn’t get a whole lot posted here - or a whole lot of work done on other things. I have a database for work I should probably get working on some kind of PHP interface, so people can check information in and out of it, and I have a church website that’s in dire need of some changes. It’s not going to look like much even after I leave, I don’t think, but that’s mostly because it’s necessary that I alter an existing content delivery system so that any idiot here at church could conceivably use it. I’m using WordPress, which runs this little site as well, so I’m getting kind of a crash course on CSS and how it works, since this site is laid out almost entirely in CSS - and I plan some changes on the personal side of things at some point, as well.
I think I’m going to go out and drop the cash on a copy of TurboTax, even though I have someone working on the preparation of our taxes right now as well - which means, of course, that I will be paying double for taxes getting done this year - but I would really like to make sure this gets done right, and I’d like to see how EIC and such work on my own. If I screw it up, at least I have his printed copies on which to rely. Otherwise, I will be able to E-File these returns as well, and figure out how the whole residency thing works. I think I’m claiming 801 De Mun as my residence, since I never re-titled cars and such, but it’s a temporary address. That’s another reason I’d like to see the way he managed to do everything on the forms. At least that way, if I get audited, I have some kind of understanding of what I did on my own taxes.
I probably should have done them myself in the first place.
Stupid thing is that I have to buy TWO states’ programs for TurboTax to do my stupid taxes, since I was a resident in both (I suppose technically), and made money in both. Gah!
Temporary residency is stupid and a half. It makes no sense, but you don’t have a choice as a student in many cases.
What was I supposed to do, change my licenses and titles all over again just because I was going to be in Wisconsin for less than a year? I don’t think so - especially with the pain in the neck it is changing those kinds of things in Missouri.
I can’t wait until this school thing is completely done (at least in the near future) so I know what’s going on with taxes and local laws and state stuff. This shifting around from year to year is really not the best way to be going about things. It’s hard to figure out if I’m doing everything legally, even.