Okay, so I still haven't got that first Yuletide recs post ready. I'll get to it, really I will. Things have been very busy. I spent last week teaching tax classes. A morning class 9am-1pm, and a night class 6pm-10pm. When you consider that I had to be there about 1/2 an hour early to get set up and rarely managed to get out of either class fewer ( Read more... )

There are a number of certification tests that I needed to take to actually qualify for a job with the tax service this year. The Level 1 test, policy & procedure, and bank product tests were all insanely easy. Level 2 was simple enough, but it took awhile and some of the questions were deliberately tricky. Level 3 was nasty, but I passed it. I ( Read more... )