My Kindle Touch died when I was 80% into the Count of Monte Cristo. It couldn’t have picked a worst time to die on me. Amazon is sending me a replacement, but in the meantime, I lent the book and loaded it on Laurie’s Kindle, since she’s reading an old-fashioned paper book at the moment.

I got finally got our taxes done. I used TurboTax for the first time, since the credit union had a special on it. Curiously enough, after spending almost 4 hours inputting medical expenses, charitable contributions, energy star improvements to the house, education expenses, and other allowable deductions, all of which came in just a few dollars under the standard deductions, Turbo tax submitted a 1040 EZ form using the standard deductions, plus 45 pages of the forms generated by the deductions that didn’t make a difference after all.