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My First Enjoyable Tax Reckoning in Years

There are three things I wish I'd known about sooner:  Electric Tootbrushes ($100 is not a lot to spend if it prevents 3 root canals), The Birthday Party (this 80's Australian rock band is the blueprint for The Jesus Lizard and several entire punk rock record labels), and finally, tax preparation software.

I must be the last guy on earth to discover this way to make tax time easy.  Tuesday I spent from 3 to 5 pm in the friendly, capable hands of a tax robot, who, for a mere $13 asked me numerous probing and helpful questions.  Why leave home!  Many are the years when I had incompletely filled out tax forms or lacked correct paperwork.  This year I had zero stress and learned a lot from the robot.   And buying Turbo Tax must cost more than $13, yes?From now on, doing tax paperwork is the one thing I won't try to learn about at the library.

What part of a movie hits you the second time

Seeing The Big Lebowski for the second time was worth it.  There's a 'mad caper' theme to the movie, which means lots of excuses for Jeff Bridges' character, 'The Dude', to get hit over the head and enter dreamland. All of those dream sequences, off-putting and disorienting the first time around, are now the highlight of the movie for me.  Viva la Coen Brothers.

The Dude on a sort of 50's diner stairway to Valhalla.

The Dude in an anxiety nightmare that he is trapped in the finger holes and taking a roll down the lane from the ball's perspective.