Income Tax Time!

Well my taxes are done. In fact, I went to Jackson-Hewitt and got a rapid refund. Picked up my check on the way home and spent over $2000 before dinner time. Of course, most of that was old bills for my old car. The garage has been waiting very patiently for me to pay off my bill. Hard to find a garage that will let you pay in installments. I also picked up a part to repair the downstairs toilet (the handle.) I just replaced that same part less than two years ago. So this time I went with the brass fixture instead of the cheap plastic one. The I got home and found out why I went with the cheap plastic one last time. It was very hard to get the brass one in. But all is well.

Alex has gone out for the evening. A friend of his belongs to Mensa and invited him to a Buffet thing they're having. With Amanda and Eric both at work, it means I have the house to myself for a few hours. Well, me and the dog. A chance to play on the computer for a while - catch up on things.

Homework

It was like a flash from the past. There I was, sitting at the kitchen table, helping Amanda with her homework. I haven't done that for years. But she's taking a science class called "Our Solar System"; a science credit for folks who don't much like science. But this assignment was about doing measurement conversions - days to galactic years, au's to parsecs, fun stuff like that. I would have had a ball just doing the assignment on my own - but trying to help Amanda while not actually doing all of the work was tricky. I'm not a very good tutor because I have a hard time remembering how I learned stuff. We sure could have used wcg's help, it being in his general field and he being a better teacher than I am. But apparently, he's fallen down a rabbit hole or something.