Thursday, April 19, 2007
Usual oatmeal breakfast. CREDANT and Pointsec followup. Processed and uploaded and annotated photos of the awful Office 2007 product box. Chatted with Rodney about the Class of 2007 class gift. Purchased the Class of 2007 class gift. Computer requirements final review of web pages. Lunch: Carmelina's burrito #4 with chicken mole. Chatted with Nancy J from CREDANT. Student database update. Met with student TH about Apple Mail. (Our mail admins don't provide support for it.) Also talked about Office 2004 and computer troubleshooting. Computer requirements finalization. Installed KeePass 1.0.7 for my computer. Met with student GR. Skipped dinner. In the evening, Patrick and I attended a City of San Francisco Town Hall for Registered Domestic Partners at the Milton Marks Conference Center in the Hiram Johnson State Office Building at 455 Golden Gate Avenue. The event was organized and co-sponsored by Betty T. Yee (chairwoman of the State Board of Equalization), Debra Bowen (Secretary of State), Equality California, National Center for Lesbian Rights, and Our Family Coalition. The event discussed changes to California tax law which will complicate taxes for registered domestic partners in the state of California. Domestic partners registered in California will be required to file their state taxes jointly beginning with their 2007 taxes which are filed in April 2008. Since the federal government does not permit such couples to file jointly, it's creating headaches and questions. This forum was organized to distribute information. I tried to get an extra info packet for Chris and Nate, but they thought they would run out, so I didn't get one. Patrick and I left early partly because he developed some back pain today (possibly from shao lin) and wasn't feeling well, and partly because we had gotten to the part where they talked about property taxes and I no longer have any hope or expectation that I will own property anytime soon enough for the information presented today to still be relevant.