Lughnasa\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Waning Harvest Moon<\/p>\n
So.\u00a0 Yesterday I got up, got ready to go into the museum, got in the car and got no engine love.\u00a0 Click.\u00a0 Click.\u00a0 Click.\u00a0 Of course, I only had adequate time to get there since I never leave early.\u00a0 What to do?\u00a0 I put the charger on it and got back…wait for it.\u00a0 An error message meaning the battery won’t take a charge.<\/p>\n
Anyhow we have that new Rav4.\u00a0 I hopped in it and made it on time.\u00a0 Or close enough.<\/p>\n
Got home after a long stint at the museum in time that Kate could go to work in the Rav4.<\/p>\n
What greets me at the kitchen table?\u00a0 A nice note from the IRS saying they had checked our 2009 return, 2009?, and now feel we owe the government an additional $45,000.\u00a0 Say what?\u00a0 The letter of “explanation” did not communicate in any language I understood.\u00a0 WTF?\u00a0 OMG.\u00a0 Well, a good thing we pay that accountant to handle this kind of stuff.\u00a0 Could ruin a perfectly bad day.<\/p>\n
While I read this cheery note, Mark says, “Rigel’s bleeding.”\u00a0 Uh, huh.\u00a0 A small nick on the ear.\u00a0 Unimportant.<\/p>\n
Earlier, I discover, the Saudi embassy wants Mark to take an HIV test.\u00a0 Good thing we have a doctor in the house.\u00a0 Kate circles the HIV results on the lab work already sent.\u00a0 Oh.<\/p>\n
Also, some power of attorney for somebody for some purpose seems to be needed, requiring yet another communication back to Saudi, which will produce an e-mail to Mark, which he will then sign and Fedex to Travisa which will then hand it to the Saudi Embassy in Washington.\u00a0 Geez.<\/p>\n
Other than that Mrs. Lincoln…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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