Every day's a holiday

I finally gave my money to Intuit as I filed my extension today.  As much as I wanted to dump them, their software is still better and their price actually a bit cheaper than H&R and TaxSlayer, both of which I also tried.  Part of it is I'm used to the software since I worked in a support role last year.  Part of it is it sucked up my last year's return and did a pretty good job importing the most critical info.  I've got a couple of weird things, a long term capital loss that will span my lifetime and a couple of partial oil incomes all of which belong to Dana.  There are a lot of questions with those that Intuit kind of figures out better than the others.

So my extension is filed as I wait for the company that absorbed mine to send the form saying what is the result of my 3% in the company.  Hopefully they will again file a loss and it will wipe out what I'm currently paying.  But that won't happen until next October when they finally get around to finishing their books.  It takes a while to do a crappy job.

But I'm satisfied that my numbers are right and I'm paying about the right amount and I know what is next.  All good for another year.

We came close to itemization and may actually be itemizing next year.  Medical bills are increasing year over year and I came within a few thousand of the standard deduction which is all I've ever taken.  So for the balance of this year I'm getting receipts for anything and everything.  A huge benefit of using a single credit card is end of year compilations of  numbers like health care.  

Now to cool my brain down.