It's tax time, and since I knew we'd end up owing, I delayed filing until this week. I still haven't filed yet - that will probably be this weekend - but unfortunately, it's going to be worse than I feared. Why? Because a large chunk of freelance work I started when I was between jobs was paid for in 2008, and this amount of income was high enough ( Read more... )

My car has, over the last few months, developed a noticeable wobble in the front axle, and with winter coming up before too long it was high time to get it looked at. Fortunately, even though the car's original warranty ran out 24,000 miles ago (or 27 days ago - shame that I hit the mileage cap first), the extended warranty covers pretty much any ( Read more... )

So, based on my SSN, our economic stimulus payment should be coming by May 9th via direct deposit. At least, that's what the IRS's payment schedule page says. However, after entering in our information on their "Where's My Stimulus Payment?" form, there's no record for us yet. Odd; we should be getting the money by Friday, right?

Wrong. See, we did ( Read more... )