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18956. Max Macks - 3/20/2006 9:31:06 PM hi Moters 18957. judithathome - 3/20/2006 10:36:55 PM Hi, Max! 18958. arkymalarky - 3/21/2006 12:51:07 AM Hi all.
The way we avoid interactions with neighbors is not to have any.
What an awful Monday, Thoughtful. I'm going to do our taxes on my spring break in a couple of weeks. Last year I dreaded it and we got a very nice refund. This year I'm cautiously anticipating it, which probably means I'm going to get stuck. I absolutely can't tell from one year to the next any more. 18959. judithathome - 3/21/2006 1:14:16 AM We always get a refund...Keoni has them take out a LOT so that we do end up getting money back. We never miss it through the year but we sure do love it at the end...ha! 18960. arkymalarky - 3/21/2006 1:35:16 AM I hope that's the case with us. We changed our withholding a couple of years ago and it helped a lot. The straw was the $1500 tax right after we'd bought Mose her car. It still makes me mad when I think about it. 18961. thoughtful - 3/21/2006 10:44:23 PM Well, the dentist fixed my broken tooth but is insisting on a crown. I guess you'll just have to call me Princess thoughtful from then on!
We sent off the check to the feds today hopefully to minimize the interest penalty.
I'm still trying to figure it all out and I think I did. We had some sizable cap gains this year and I didn't realize that they are treated as a preference item under the AMT. So we got whacked good.
So now I know. Anytime I hear this crap about how much the economy has grown because they cut the cap gains tax, I know it's all BS. I mean I've always known from an economic pov how lame the argument was, but now I know from a real pov of how lame it is...most of the people who take cap gains don't get the lower tax rate as it's taken back in the AMT.
Oh to have a govt with competent policy makers!!! 18962. thoughtful - 3/21/2006 10:44:36 PM BTW, where did the mote go today? On vacation? 18963. Magoseph - 3/21/2006 10:50:14 PM Dear Princess, maybe the site that carries our beloved Mote probably had some maintenance to do today. 18964. thoughtful - 3/21/2006 11:10:18 PM Dang....well if it went on vacation, I wish it offered to take me along!
that's cute...folks I used to work with called me the Polish Princess for years...due to my heritage and my attitude. Of course, my husband calls me OPL: old pollack lady. Stada baba. Looks great in a babushka. 18965. wonkers2 - 3/22/2006 12:12:31 AM Well, yesterday my wife and I got home from five days of our son's Indian wedding in Houston. It was quite a memorable event or, more properly, a series of events beginning on Wednesday and ending with a brunch on Sunday. We were supplied with a several sets of Indian garb which we wore to a dance (for Marjoribanks a garba and ras) on Thursday, a pre-wedding ceremony on Friday and to the wedding on Saturday. When I get around to it I'll post some pictures. My remarks at the rehearsal dinner worked fine. My mention of our our trepidation about traveling to "Bush country" for the engagement party last year got some chuckles from the Indian-Americans and some cheers from the college crowd from Seattle and Berkeley. 18966. judithathome - 3/22/2006 12:27:33 AM Sounds great, Wonks! Wish you'd had time to swing by our fair city. However, this was not the weekend for it...we were flooded with about 10 inches of rain this weekend. 18967. arkymalarky - 3/22/2006 12:28:38 AM Congrats to your family, Wonk. Sounds like everything went well. I look forward to seeing your pictures. 18968. Macnas - 3/22/2006 9:22:44 AM Mote back up, and all is well. 18969. thoughtful - 3/22/2006 2:28:22 PM wonks that sounds terrific. Look forward to the pics when you get a chance. 18970. alistairconnor - 3/22/2006 2:31:07 PM And surely you have greatly improved your knowledge of cricket over the weekend, Wonk? 18971. wonkers2 - 3/22/2006 3:22:19 PM No cricket. But I had a lot of Indian food and folk dancing. 18972. TheWizardOfWhimsy - 3/22/2006 3:58:06 PM Welcome back, wonk. Should we now consider you a Sanyasan? 18973. wonkers2 - 3/22/2006 6:39:34 PM Nobody mentioned Sanyasan. My in-laws are Jains which is an offshoot of Hinduism. I checked Wikipedia, but there was no entry for Sanyasan. ?? 18974. TheWizardOfWhimsy - 3/22/2006 7:02:57 PM Sanyasan/Sannyasin
Etymology:Hindi sannyAsI, from Sanskrit sannyAsin: a Hindu mendicant ascetic 18975. wonkers2 - 3/22/2006 7:29:46 PM After paying for the rehearsal dinner, I definitely qualify as a mendicant.
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