I'm fighting my way through a jQuery course with shiv and bludgeon. Next I'm going to go and de-snow my car.

I'd make very very very sure the money went to withholdings and not some caribbean vacation fund or up the accountant's nose….

this is hilarious.

tommy,

I typically do whatever withholdings I had the year previous and then I estimate my taxes and withholdings around June and do another withholding adjustment if I am going to come in too high and too low. They have Internet calculators that I can help you see if you are on track for the year in terms of withholdings.

However, in recent years, I have been too busy to be as on top of this as I was.

I am really hoping I kept my too-high withholding last year but have proper withholding now at my new job, because I want the chunk of money right now, but also don't want to do it going forward. Fingers crossed!

There are no taxes being taken out of Hubby's disability, and on its own it's below the taxable level. Added with mine, though, and it kicks us over into owing territory.

Any time I have W2 income I make sure I claim zero deductions and much of the time I also ask them to withhold extra. I'll take every little bit I can to help balance all of the 1099 income that I need to deal with. I'm happy that with the two part time state teaching gigs I'm also getting a tiny amount of retirement withholding happening as well.

I just had to duck out of a meeting because I realized that I can't pay for my hotel with a closed corporate card. At least I realized it before the charge failed to go through tomorrow?

Timelies all!

So today we had lab retreat, part 1. What that actually means is that everybody gives detailed info on what they've done in the last year, and what is upcoming. Today was one section of the lab with lots of PowerPoint slides for four hours. At least there were donuts and bagels.

There are three more days of this, starting in three weeks.

My father made my mother a grilled cheese sandwich for dinner--

Oh, by the way, my mother was discharged from the hospital today, but that's of secondary importance. What's important is that the sandwich smells so good I almost entertained thoughts of knocking over the sick lady and taking it away from her.

I suppose I will have to make my own grilled cheese sandwich.

Mmm, grilled cheese sandwich sounds good. I will have to make do with this duck egg and roast pork scramble.

Good job not knocking over the sick lady for her dinner, Dana.

Objectively, that was not the world's best grilled cheese sandwich, but it was immensely satisfying.