Not so bad after all

Hello everyone:

Just a few random thoughts & such for today.

1. Even though I said I would do it a week ago Wednesday, I just filed my 2005 income taxes tonight. Gotta love e-filing. The damage wasn't as bad as I had thought it would be. I should get my refund just in time to pay the rent & catch up on the bills.
2. A few interesting percentages from my tax software, which calculated that based on my 2005 income, I paid:
1. 5.62% in federal tax
2. 4.97% in MA state income tax
3. 6.19% in Social Security taxes
4. 1.44% in Medicare tax AND
5. took home 81.74% of my gross income.
3. I had a job interview yesterday afternoon after work. The job would pay more than what I'm making now BUT I would have a longer commute, thus spending more on gas AND I would have to pay for health insurance, which I don't do now. PLUS the job is still in MA and would require me again to pay MA income tax. If I get a second interview, I'll need them to up the offer in salary to compensate for that. The interview itself went well, I think and I am definitely qualified for this job.
4. At the job interview I learned that the guy who interviewed me grew up in the same town as I did and he married the sister of a guy who has worked for my brother's landscaping company.
5. Regarding any job, including the one I currently have: I don't really want to sit at any desk job, unless it's my own desk at home. I'd stay at the job I have if I could get a substantial boost in salary, though. My problem is this: I'd like to transition to a self-employed freelance copywriter, but how to make ends meet during the transition has me stumped.
6. I always have a bad attitude when getting out of bed in the morning, and that grumpiness has carried over into the first part of my workday. This is not a good thing.
7. I am always tired.
8. There are so many books I want to read (all at the same time) and finish. But choosing one to start is not as easy as it would appear.
9. I spend entirely too much time on the internet, but it's one of my few vices.
10. My desk is a mess. My kitchen table is a mess. I need to change out the kitterbox (yuck).
11. I don't mind doing laundry, i.e. washing the clothes. Its folding them that I hate. As a result I have a basket of clean unfolded laundry sitting in my room from Sunday. I will go around wrinkled when I wear these clothes.
12. My kids arrive for the weekend tomorrow evening. They will be happy there is no football on television this weekend.
13. I'm hungry and need a snack, so I'll just leave you with this Forgotten Word from my calendar:

CURMURRING

A low rumbling sound; hence, the motion of the bowels, produced by flatulence, attended by such a sound; borborygmus; Scotch.

-William Whitney's Country Dictionaryand Cyclopedia, 1889.

Murmuring, grumbling; sometimes applied to that motion of the intestines which is produced by slight gripes. This is one of these rhythmical sort of terms for which our ancestors had a peculiar predilection. It is compounded of Suio-Gothic (the ancient language of Sweden) kurr-a, to murmur.

-John Jamieson's Etymological Scottish Dictionary, 1808.

Curmurrin, a source of grumbling.

-Alexander Warrack's Scots Dialect Dictionary, 1911.

FEAST DAY OF ST. TIMOTHY

a protector of those with intestinal ailments. The American journalist and linguist H.L. Mencken facetiously came up with the pseudo-Italian neologism flatuoso, which he suggested might be an elegant term for one who is continually troubled by flatulence.