The title is a throwback to the old “ScrabbleFuckers” days wherein Gary and I would play WordBiz internet Scrabble against people from like Australia, and we could get away with such words. They had no idea that ‘gofnosa,’ ‘taxz,’ and ‘lovefist’ are not English words. I don’t blame them, though, since (according to my education concerning Australian dialect, which consists of a single episode of the Simpsons) they actually speak more gibberish than anything.

I digress. The main point of the title is that I just did my taxes last night, and whilst I am greatly happy to find that my insurance for the summer will be paid for by my Federal refund, I owe the state money. I know, this really sucks. I’m pretty sure that this is the third year in a row that I have owed the state tax revenue. In the past two years I have paid the state I think a total of sixteen dollars, except I’m pretty sure that they only collected ten of them, because one year I did the direct e-payment thing and I put in the information and they just never collected the payment. Oh well. This year I am making sure that they get my payment, so I am mailing them a check. I don’t want them to miss out on the eight cents of income tax that I owe. My mother tells me every year to round the amounts, but if I did that, then I would not owe them eight cents. Man, if I knew that someone owed me eight cents and they were going to round it out, I’d be pissed, and the last thing I want is the Illinois state government angry at me. They issue my driver’s license. I need that thing to prove that I can legally buy beer and other potables. So, instead of figuring that it is going to cost them more to process my check than the check is worth and rounding down and stiffing them, I am going to do the “exact” thing and mail off my check with my forms.

Oh, one more thing: Illinois, don’t spend it all in one place, alright?