Sunday, March 2, 2008
Couldn't sleep, got up at 2 AM. Snack: Chunky soup. Gave up trying to install Unison File Synchronizer for OS 10.5.2—the instructions were too hard to figure out. Breakfast with Patrick: granola with nonfat milk. Back to bed. Woke around noon. Showered. Mended a sock and a pair of long underwear. Ate a turkey and provolone sandwich and leftover potato and sweet potato fries. A Panda Express fortune I have from a few days ago which I forgot to record earlier: A great day lies ahead in the not too distant future. Stretches. Weight training: wrist curl, reverse wrist curl, super slow bench dip, bench dip, crunch, leg lift. Took a bottle of fruit juice and went for a walk to enjoy the sun, took some photos with the new Canon PowerShot A650IS that Tina bought me as a birthday present. The camera works really well and it's similar to my old A610 so I didn't have to learn much new about the interface. Dinner at home with Patrick: rigatoni with strips of cow (flank steak) in red sauce. Prepared to do my taxes, but stopped short of doing them. Patrick and I are registered domestic partners (RDPs) and for this tax year California requires RDPs to file jointly, but RDPs are not recognized at the federal level, so for federal we still have to file separately. Blogs online say that TurboTax has been updated to handle these changes, and I think it will work for us since we (unfortunately) don't have anything very complicated—no houses, no businesses, no sales of valuable stocks or bonds, no inheritances, no lottery winnings. However I don't know whether I should do TurboTax online or TurboTax on cdrom. TurboTax recommends the cdrom because you don't have to reenter information for the separate returns and you don't pay for multiple filings. I'll check with Taxboy before starting. Posted things for sale. Congestion in the lungs is almost all gone, so I'll be in at work tomorrow. Did some work on the shirts project.