knock on that

People like to complain about the IRS, but you know what? The IRS rocks. Sure, nobody wants to get audited, and lots of people like to complain about paying taxes (and they can all stick a sock in it as far as I'm concerned). But I never hear anyone bother to express any admiration for the insane amount of work that the IRS gets done and does pretty darn well given the circumstances. And you know one thing that the IRS has gotten really good at in the past few years? Crazy fast tax refunds. God bless 'em.

I still have to do my state tax return. I've been having some technical difficulties getting their online filing thing up and running. I'm going to give it one more shot, and if I'm still having problems, I think I'll just file a paper return. The more I use the internet for everything, though, the more aware I am of how much paper we have used and still use for stuff like that, and it makes me a little ill inside. (For similar reasons, I don't like to buy CDs anymore, because why bother? All I'm going to do is rip it to my computer and load it into my iPod -- I don't even have a stereo that can play CDs.)