Entries this day: Shopping Studying Turbotax.com Work talkin_taxes

Shopping

6:30pm JST Monday 28 June 2004

I went shopping today and bought food for about 4 days worth of meals for about 1470 yen. Pretty good. I could easily spend that much for 1 meal in Shibuya or somewhere exciting.

Studying

6:28pm JST Monday 28 June 2004

Copied the Genki I CDs that Jessica loaned me, and had pretty solid study time for 90 minutes or so until Fred and I started chatting about CDs and encoding technology and such. He was working on a programming project, something for an online poker game he's writing. Online poker will almost certainly trigger a google ad.

Turbotax.com

6:25pm JST Monday 28 June 2004

The dudes at Turbotax.com are so proud of their ability to process US tax returns that they assume only people with US addresses will use their service. (What? That rant makes no sense.)

Try this: they have all the tax information about how to pay taxes while overseas, but they don't allow people to pay for their service with an overseas credit card.

This wouldn't be so bad if they took other than credit cards, but they don't. No auto bank drafts, no paypal, no nothin' (except state-side credit cards).

And their CSR is closed at night, so I have to wait until my night to call them and figure out another way to pay them. Bummer.

Work

6:31pm JST Monday 28 June 2004

I'm on the train for work now. Start at 7pm. I wonder how many lessons I'll have. I'm going to start looking for local students during the day to augment my income.

7pm student asked me what my 5 year goal was. I was like, "to speak 4 languages."

She asked what my 10 year goal was, and I was like, "....." and then I was like fuckit "in 10 years I'll be a millionaire."

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How interesting that I forgot to give her the sheet of paper upon which I wrote my goal.

Gotta start seeing less of Hitomi and more of Jimmy. Not more of Jimmy, but Jimmy more often.

talkin taxes

2:34am JST Tuesday 29 June 2004

Chatted with Chez and Suzanne tonight. Talked with janette on the phone. Thanks to her credit card, I could pay my taxes and submit them electronically.