i am two weeks behind, i will always be two weeks behind, and i cannot catch up.
We have guests this weekend and I'm trying to get ready. I finally got back to the filing I started about two weeks ago. I took over the dining room table to sort statements and papers dating back at least to October 1998 and in a few cases further. (Oops.) Well, we're going to need the table with guests, so it was time to get my house in order.
The job is still not even half done, because I avoided with quite a bit of success digging into the massive piles of paper having to do with the sale of our condo to Mitch or sorting the credit card receipts -- yes, we keep every single one -- into the appropriate folder for the right quarter.
I also discovered that we've really filled up our filing cabinet, which is actually quite large.
I have to start weeding stuff out of there; I just don't know what. I've found materials dating back to my solo taxes of year 1987 (ack -- I was too young to be earning income) and I'm pretty sure I can get rid of those. But how long do I need to keep tax records and statements and receipts around? It's really very confusing.
We are also discussing Regency romances in the forum.
Look who came to visit me!
(Okay, her mom and grandmom came too. But we know who the important person is.)
(And detractors will note that I do have a tummy under there.)
The answer to Wednesday's question: Illinois Governor George Ryan, already in trouble because of a scandal dating back to when he was the Secretary of State, declared a moratorium on executions in the state. Evidently something seemed wrong with a policy that, since reinstating the death penalty in 1977, has cleared 13 Death Row inmates and put 12 to death. (Actually, the state didn't clear those inmates, pro bono work by such people as law professor Richard Kling and his students at Chicago-Kent College of Law did.)
The Chicago Tribune did a series entitled "The Failure of the Death Penalty in Illinois."
I didn't know that Nebraska's legislature voted for a moratorium on executions but the governor vetoed it.
None of the wholesale execution states, such as California, Texas, or Virginia, have announced any plans to review their death penalty policies or put a moratorium on executions. Because, you know, no errors have crept into their justice systems.
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