Tax Trouble
Filing my taxes as we speak. "Please wait-we are calculating your return." That's not exactly true I think because they already sent me the PDF file and they're supposed to be transmitting the damned thing to the Feds and State. They've been 'calculating' for about five minutes now and I'm fully expecting to get a message that says, "sorry, we've lost all of your information in a black hole and you must redo everything."
The Feds sent me a form that I could have used for filing over the phone (kind of a backwards thing considering other electronic options), but it didn't jibe with filing the State forms. Great! They are now performing 'system maintenance' and I should try again later. Yeah, I'm toast. No record of having requested my return be transmitted, and another routine maintenance message. I'll try later.
