First the first time in living memory I got a tax refund check in the mail! Generally of course I have to send the IRS bucketloads of cash, confident in the knowledge that the government will blow it like a crack-addled spend it wisely on ... um, something or other which is probably pretty important. Now I know that generally speaking, folks get refund checks in ... ? ... well I guess probably in May or something. I wouldn't know. I never get refunds. But I got one of them automatic six month extensions, because the fact of the matter my record-keeping these days has gotten somewhat lackadaisacal in this era of mp3s- I write stuff down of course, like on the back of envelopes and things, and I ALWAYS put the envelopes ... someplace. I don't know. Long story short I got an extension because I really had no idea what I had paid in estimated taxes, and even with the extension I couldn't really recall so I just kind of guessed.

Turns out I must have misunderestimated what I had paid, because I got a refund check for a full two hundred dollars above what I was expecting! This is one of the benefits of slap-dash record-keeping. Now, I've never really thought of the IRS as the kind of bureaucracy which would say "excuse me, but let us give you a little more money" but I'm an open minded kind of guy and I'm always perfectly happy to be enlightened.

Also: Daylight Savings time starts. Why? What are they saving it for?