1865Me & J-Law re: taxes, etc.

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• Jan. 16, 2004

  me to J:
  
  
  I am going to be here for soooo many more hours, I
  don't even want to count them.
  
  I did some math today and figured out that somehow
  my take-home from OT ends up being less per hour than
  my take-home from regular hours. I wonder how that
  works, exactly? Math Is Hard. It almost seems like if I got
  a raise on paper, I'd end up taking less of it home in
  the long run. :(
  
  I hate being middle class and childless--I support EVERYONE.
  
  --- J-Law wrote:
  Yeah, I was just thinking about that "we support
  everyone" business. I think we should get giant tax
  credits for not having kids - after all, we aren't
  sapping educational, medical, etc. resources.
  
  Finally got done with the stupid calendar. Took me
  nearly three hours of otherwise billable time.
  
  Katie and I are on for Boulevard on Feb. 4. Very
  much looking forward to it.
  
  Math is very hard. I try not to do it. When I do
  have to do it and accuracy matters, I make a little
  Excel spreadsheet. :)
  
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  Date: Fri, 16 Jan 2004 14:55:24 -0800 (PST)
  From: me

Subject: RE: Here.
To: J-Law

There's a new Dem. candidate--Clark, Craig? some name
like that. His platform is basically "if you spawned,
you don't pay"...I would rather vote for Shrub again.
Seriously. WTF?!? There really _ought_ to be
incentives for people who work and pay their fair
share of taxes and don't add any drains to the system.
But that'll never happen in this 'for da chuylllldrun'
please-the-breeders day & age. Feh.

UB and I are doing brunch at Chez Zee Sunday. She
may or may not bring 'the Baby' (what she calls
sonar0m, isn't that cute/sick?)... I told her it was
totally her call, that I didn't mind him, but that if
she wanted to drop him at a bookstore for an hour
while we eat & visit, that would be fine with me, too.

Why I do these things to myself, I'll never know...

She *did* say the first unselfish thing I've ever
heard her say via ICQ yesterday: she wants to buy the
land next door in order to build another house so that

her mom, dad & sineater's mom have someplace to come &
live when they're old and need to be taken care of. I
thought that was very altruistic and nice. But I'm
sure there's some dark side to it, like she wants them
to sign over their retirement/SSI/Disability checks to
her or something in exchange for her care. That's
just me being nasty,though. Maybe she really *is*
trying hard to turn over a new leaf & be a decent
person. I'd really like to think that.

Oh well. 1 hour and 2 minutes until I am outta here.
Haven't committed 100% to working OT tomorrow. I
really HATED the first/last/only saturday OT I did
when the security guy harassed me up one side and down
the other. asshole.