Friday, April 16, 2004

A high five for my 1040.

Your favorite relatives are the ones who give you the most cash when it comes gift time.

God, I love Uncle Sam.

Uncle Mike (also known as Michigan to those who do not assign uncle names to your states) was not quite as generous, but his return of $32 will not be ungratefully recieved.

On the other hand, Illinois, whom from now on I refuse to call an uncle, had the balls to tell me that I owed it $1.94. One dollar and ninety-four cents! What the hell is the state of Illinois going to do with one dollar and ninety-four cents? Buy itself a Starbucks Mocha Frappuccino or something?

So after all the math, it turns out that I’m getting $168.10 from the governments, which is a good thing considering what I got in the mail the other day.

And that’s not even the same $49.35 Cyborg Superman I mentioned a week ago. This is the original non-Terminator Superman, and it set me back $49.29. Tack onto that the four-figure Return of Superman set I just pre-ordered and the Doomsday figure whose purchase set me off on the Superman action figure binge in the first place, and my grand total comes to $165.64.

That leaves me with $2.46.

Perhaps I can buy myself a Starbucks Mocha Frappuccino.