59 minutes, 48 seconds...

What a way to spend a Friday afternoon - on the phone with the IRS! I guess the system our government set up doesn't like it when business owners are efficient and place 3 checks in one envelope! I mailed my 2007 income taxes, my 2007 self-employment taxes and my first 2008 estimated payment in the same envelope with three different envelopes inside of it (they were all going to the same place anyway!) and somehow that messed up our 2008 Stimulus Payment. So for those of you whose money from the 2008 stimulus package has come and gone, we haven't even gotten our check yet! So to clear that up it took a 59 minute, 48 second phone call. Talk about efficient! (yeah right).

Think about what I could've done with that hour:

• Cooked and eaten a meal with my wife
• Edited photographs - and gotten paid!
• Spent time with my parents
• Gone for a walk
• Enjoyed the nice, warm Michigan summer

But no, I had to sit in my office dealing with the IRS...the joys of being a small business owner.

-Russ

PS - anyone else feel like we should scrap the entire system and start all over again...?? We don't have TV anymore, so I've been spared the political hype thus far, but it's all anyone ever talks about anymore - anyone else sick of it?