random posts

a large flock of crows has decided to take up residence in the trees just outside our house for the last couple days. there are hundreds of them and they're pretty damn creepy, especially at night. they also appear to have singled out my car for some reason and it has paid for it dearly.

tax code is retardedly complicated. i started doing our taxes this week. this year, i have converted a personal residence to an investment property which had expenses but made no money in 2008, gotten married and moved to virginia, laura sold some stock, exercised some stock options and made some contributions to a retirement account that she was not eligible for. i had some stock that was transferred from one brokerage account to another brokerage and then sold. that means one married-filing-jointly federal return, one married-filing-separately partial year state return for maryland, one married-filing-separately partial year state return for virginia and one married-filing-separately virginia state return. flat tax anyone?

we watched sweeny todd last night. laura and i agree that it would have been awesome if the italian barber had been played by dave arabian.

i've been listing to all my cds on my computer at work in alphabetical order by album name. this morning i hit the "greatest hits" block of albums. there look to be about 13 of them.