By the Short & Curlies

02 May 17
05:25 hrs

     Yes, it is that time of year again. And if you are reading this and you have not paid your taxes I hope that you don't owe yhe government any money.

      I owe them.

     It's my own damn fault. This past year I worked a shit load of hours, up to 50+ some weeks, and all that over time looks great in the bank. The problem arises when you have two or more sources of income with their own levels of taxation. However, all income is added together and is taxed at the combined level. Trust me when I say that if you have more than one job there is never enough taxes taken off. You would think that I would have learned this lesson when ar one time I was submitting six T4 slips for one taxation year. That's six jobs, actually it was five part time jobs and a pension, but it's still six sources of income and all of them were taxed at their own minimum level. Once they were added together, I was royally screwed.

     The same crap happened this year. One line of tasking took off deductions and the other took off less than a pinch of 'coon shit. So, I am paying again. Starting this month I will have to tithe some to my RRSP.  It's the only way I am going to break even. Especially, when every second week I'm racking up 50+ hours of work. It adds up pretty damn quick.

02 May 17
19:15 hrs

     Today was the first day of the Sr. Loin Fruit's practicum in his chosen field. By all accounts it went well. He came home really stoked at the experience. Well, it was only the first day. Let's see how he feels after 120 hrs. The worm may still turn.

03 May 17
12:50 hrs

     It's a very grey day here in the Valley. Low clouds and misting precip. A bit of a rotten day. On a good note the advanced polls are open and as a citizen of Canada I am asking, nee demanding, that if you are over the age of eighteen to get your ass out and vote. I am not going to tell you who to vote for nor am I about to tell you which party I am going to vote for. The point is that you must vote. I recently found out that Australia has a law whereby if you don't vote you can be fined. It's a nominal fine of only $20 ausd but you will have broken the law. We don't have that law in Canada but I would direct you to a conversation I had years ago with an individual stated that she never voted because she didn't think it would make a difference. Maybe so, I countered,  "But, if you don't participate in the process you have no right to complain about the results!"

18:00 hrs

     Tonight was Loin Fruit #2's turn to make supper. Home made gourmet mac and cheese. From scratch, including the bechemel sauce. I can't wait and I'm sure Chef Blaine will be impressed too.
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