Beautiful day outside (Corey's out there doing yardwork of course), but I decided today was the day to do our taxes. They've got to get done some time, why not today. Next month is going to be a busy travel month, so I might as well get them done today. I was also hoping to get a nice fat refund check but that doesn't look likely. This year's refund is going to be rather paltry I'm afraid. I'm almost done but TurboTax is taking forever to install updates...what's up with that? Maybe I installed it too late? Or too early? Or is it just buggy? Maybe they screwed something up this year...
Maybe deciding to do taxes had something to do with the movie we watched last night: The Life of Others (Das Leben der Anderen). An excellent depiction of life under socialist rule in GDR (East Germany) before the wall came down. (Doing taxes is like dealing with the state, right?) The film focuses on how one high profile couple is bugged by the Stasi. The film is basically something of a tragedy, but there is one bright spot that cracked me up. It's a joke as told by one of the younger "functionaries" at lunch about Honecker greeting the sun. Well, see for yourself...
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