Its time to pay the man again

Last night, I finished my taxes. Yes, I'm waiting until close to the last minute, but due to some financial decisions made in the previous year, I knew that I would have to write Uncle Sam a check come April 15th, so I wanted to delay the writing of that check as long as possible. Now, I make no claims that I'm the smartest man alive - but I don't think I'm stupid either. I've graduated from some of the finest institutions in the state (i.e. Strom Thurmond High School), but anything aside from the standard vanilla 1040 tax form is absolutely ridiculously difficult to figure out. See, I worked out of my home for most of last year. As such, I'm entitled to deduct a portion of my mortgage and utilities as a job expense. Even with Turbo Tax, this was no easy feat to accomplish. And after about an hour and a half of gathering the necessary numbers, and figuring out how to make Turbo Tax realize that I had not sold my home when I started my new job, the whopping savings to me was about $3. That was time well spent. No one likes to pay taxes. I see it as a necessary excercise in keeping our government running. But c'mon people, its too damn complicated. One of the fundamental concepts of any computer science degree is form design. You want to design both printed forms and computer screens to be easy to use, logical, and neat. Hello, IRS. At least its over with for another year. Later this afternoon, I'll be printing them out and putting them in the mail. I'm sure things won't get easier for next year, but a little boy can dream, can't he?