I Hate Everything

[cjsmith]

I am having an I Hate Everything day.

I broke the comb I've been carrying. Trash to treasure: what can you make from a broken comb? Good luck; I can't even make a joke out of it.

What the @#$!ing @#$! happened to BRCM Tuesday? Blargh.

Speaking of money, there's... never mind. Just let's not even go there. I sum up: I am NOT cut out for investing.

Too much to do. Learn every microscopic detail of USB. Oops, no, learn every microscopic detail of PCI. Oops, no, fix the build. Oops, no, fix these three bugs. How's that USB project coming? Hey! the build! ...*boom*.

My hair is growing. Can't I just turn that off? I already cut it once! Only two months ago, even! But it's really ugly awful hard-to-manage long for the style I (must admit I) hadn't actually mastered anyway.

My next free time is some time Monday night. As stressful as my job is, I love the work week because no one can add anything MORE to it. I work, I stress about work, I don't have to stress about anything else until the weekend, end of story.

And I seem to be allergic to -- just from personal observation, mind you, no tests yet, but the reaction's pretty noticeable -- I seem to be allergic to, get this, Caladryl.

Comments

Re: BRCM

[dawnd.livejournal.com]

Oh! That's nice. MUCH better than when we had to take a bath with the AMT a few years back. Maybe this stock won't be a complete loss after all!

Re: BRCM

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

Oh yikes, you had AMT? Owie. Owie owie.

(Still not sure how I got out of that myself. Maybe having 83(b)'ed it helped.)

Re: BRCM

[dawnd.livejournal.com]

Oh, yes, we did. Took a bath, and had to sell about 1/2 our stock to pay it. We would have done better to have paid it early, but at that time, we simply didn't have the cash, and foolishly thought that it wouldnt' be a problem, since we'd have the stock to pay it from. Ha. You know how THAT turned out.

OTOH, we did better than our friends (another company) who ended up filing bankruptcy last year because of their AMT issues back then. We just basically lost our retirement fund.

Re: BRCM

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

Grr! I suppose this means the IRS is holding on to your retirement fund, as often you can "get back" the AMT over the years. Lots harder to treat that as retirement money though.

Re: BRCM

[dawnd.livejournal.com]

Well, I suppose you could look at it that way. Except it doesn't really go back into retirement stuff. We are getting it back in dribs and drabs (just finished up the Fed credit; still have several years of state credit, I think), and it just ends up offsetting other things, not being something that we can actually afford to reinvest. *sigh* And of course it's only a portion of what we paid in AMT.

Re: BRCM

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

Yes, dribs and drabs is exactly the problem -- that's a LOT harder to treat as retirement money than a lump sum you can stash "out of mind" for a while.

Blegh.