argh!

All I wanted to do was book some flights. Which I did. And when I did that, I noticed that I hadn't been getting my miles on the grocery store club card. Anywhere.

At one time they went to United, but last year, I changed that to Alaska Air.

Nothing. For the whole year.

So this morning I gathered up all the grocery receipts and did battle with customer service at the grocery chain. Well, not battle really. But still.

All's well (or will be, with hope) in that regard at this time. However, sticking my hand in the receipt bin was a mistake.

I spent a good part of the day entering sales tax from all those receipts into our Quicken files. You might think there was some rhyme or reason to how those receipts were in the bin. And you would be wrong.

In any case, I've got over $1080 worth of sales tax payments accounted for, which is quite a bit more than Uncle Sam allows (by default) on the freaking tax forms for our income range. So it's well worth losing an afternoon of late September sunshine, right?

Right?