Sunday, May 27, 2007

No more IRS

Woot! My panic from two months ago is over.

Two months ago, I received a ltetter from the IRS telling me I owed them $18K for unpaid taxes on unreported securities.

Huh?

Looking further, I realized the IRS was telling me I owed $18K for taxes already paid on my 2005 return.

In 2005, I sold a bunch of Oracle options -- non-qualified options, meaning they were reported as income for the year. Oddly, the IRS seemed to have missed the number in Box 12a, showing the options in question.

So I called Oracle, asking for copies of my pay stubs for the periods during which I exercised the options, and send this along with my account history from E*Trade, and a copy of my W-2 (showing the options in Box 12a).

A few days ago, I received a letter from the IRS telling me they'd confirmed the taxes in question had indeed been paid.

Friday, May 04, 2007

All of April without an update

The good news: the property is Washington has been sold, and I no longer have to deal with that mess. Woohoo! My nephew's still here, and I'm still paying the rent on my sister's storage unit in Washington, but that's it. Although... she's going to be in for a shock when she gets out of prison and I inform her she owes me $24,000. I fully expect her to ask for money. She's not going to get any.

I've been having some odd dreams lately. Last week, I dreamt I was in Bangkok with a group of people who were effectively kidnapping children to bring back to the United States -- children who had been forced into prostitution. Bringing them here was an effort to free them from slavery and help them find a new start.

Another odd dream was the knock on the door, behind which were Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie. Apparently they were having problems, and picked some random person out of the book to talk to. In my dream, I got to experience the joy of standing on my living room while Brad and Angelina yelled at one another.

Last night, something odd... my nephew somehow broke his back and ended up in a wheelchair. Oddly, the doctor told him it'd be seven years before he'd walk again. I remember calling around to find some sort of organization I could put him in, to help him cope with the fact that he could no longer walk... and being pissed off that I was going to be stuck with taking care of him for the next seven years.

It's interesting to be dreaming again. For the longest time, I stopped dreaming altogether. I've been told that I was dreaming, I just couldn't remember. But I honestly can't remember a time I couldn't recall my dreams -- or, at least, that I had been dreaming (even if I couldn't remember the content). It's been months since I even remember dreaming. Now all of the sudden I'm counselling actors, and rescuing children from sexual slavery. What's up with that?