Self-pity, nothing to see here.

Part of me is resigned to the fact that I am never going to play in a table-top RPG game, in no little part due to the fact that I will never find compatible players.

The rest of me is generally frustrated right now, having worked 18+ apparently fruitless hours on this Vulnerabilities final, so I'm all-together in a bad mood right now.

Whee Taxes

So, I just did the paperwork for my taxes. I'm 'blessed' with having to fill out two partial-resident tax forms for Sate taxes, and I feel like an old man, squinting at my calculator and tax forms under the rim of my glasses.

It looks like I'm getting $330 back from the federal government, $148 from Virginia, and I owe $13.25 to California. That's a net gain of $464.75. Which is admittedly better than owing them money (when I was first doing the math for CA's taxes I messed up on som,e division and had down that my taxes were 2x what they really were, meaning I would have owed upwards of $700; that wouldn't have been happy). I can only feel partly happy for getting my money back, though, because that's what it is -- my money was withheld from me, and now after the fact the government is saying, "Whoops, here, this isn't ours." The number of times an extra $450 in my bank would have saved me a lot of grief... And on top of that, unlike a bank they aren't even going to give me any interest in return for using my money for the last year.

The bastards.