so i just got done writing out the checks or our first round of estimated tax payments. $1390. with more due in september and then again in january. gross.

alls i know is that when i used to get refunds every year, the government wasn't required to send me estimated installments over the course of 12 months. but when it's the other way around, you can't just wait until april 15th to send them their money. noooo, if you have a reasonable expectation of owing at the end of the year, you're legally obligated to send the money in quarterly. since last year was the first year i ever used a cpa or owed anything significant, i had no idea that that is how it works. rat bastards. i know i'll owe the same amount, whether i pay it now or later. but it sure would be nice to have it sitting somewhere earning interest between now and april.

blah.

so anyway.

i did not get that job i interviewed for, by the way. it was at google, which i guess it's safe to say now. oddly, though any sort of rejection feels crappy on some level, i'm not really that concerned. the folks that interviewed me were douchebags for the most part. and i've never had an interview process that was so disorganized and poorly coordinated. pluswhich, i really and truly was not a good fit for what they wanted. the hiring manager spent the better part of 20 minutes trying to convince me that help content should be written with a sense of humor.

yeah, no.

i understand that it's very web 2.0 to have a cutesy, humorous voice to your copy. but frankly, if a user is having to go to the help section, they're already frustrated and you've already failed them with ui that isn't clear enough. subjecting them to displays of how witty you are is not likely to go over well. people reading help want to get in, get something done and get out. it's the writer's job to facilitate that with as little reading required as possible.

so yeah, i don't think they would have been happy with me, nor i with them.

the recruiter who called to tell me the news said that they all had such good feedback about me that he wanted to know if it was okay for him to send my resume to a few other hiring managers.

uhh, ok. sure. i said why not, but who knows if that's a sincere sentiment or just something they do to ease the pain of rejection from such a hot company.

dunno. and oddly, don't really care.

i may or may not be flying to seattle next week for an interview up there. major online retailer, blah blah.

again, i don't even know if i want it. probably, this is showing through and is why i'm not getting hired. but that's ok. whatevs. my current job is being tolerable at the moment. and it's at a company i truly love, so that's hard to beat.

i am really bored with my own self right now, so i'm going to sign off and go watch the sopranos.

tomorrow is a year since my dad died. funny how i didn't think to mention that until i was supposed to be done writing.