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(3) Mon Aug 29 2005 20:36 PST Destiny's Nickname: My current manager (Patti, or Ping, in chinese) calls me John John. No biggie; I've been called worse. Then I realized that my old boss at BYU called me that as well. We didn't part on very good terms (to put it mildly) so we shall never speak of her again. It's just interesting that only my superiors think of such a name.

I've got three weeks to put together 17 state returns, which may drop to 14, thanks to the hurricane in the south right now. Part of the tax relief effort is to delay the tax deadline. Whatever it takes to make the government feel like it's doing its part.

The temple dedication was really interesting yesterday. We ate dinner at a member's home yesterday and learned that each session had a different theme with different talks. Kudos to the prophet and his counsellor for writing four talks! Just when I was starting to feel like general conference talks were being recycled by some apostles, they go and change it up like that. And to think how much I agonize over giving just one talk every few years.

Comments:

Posted by Susie at Tue Aug 30 2005 07:07

And Franco!

Posted by Kristen at Tue Aug 30 2005 08:24

I hate speaking in church!!!!!!!!!

I just got audited my Utah's state tax. They want me to send proof of writing off our tithing. It was legal for us to do it right?

Posted by John at Tue Aug 30 2005 15:19

Of course it was legal, but do as they say and make sure it's well documented (checks, bishop's EOY report). I'm not sure for state, but for federal it is only deductible to 50% of your AGI.

Wait! You guys deducted your tithing? You didn't take the standard deduction? I knew I should have done your taxes. I can't really tell you how legal it was without knowing your income (which I would imagine as students wasn't too large). Why didn't you take the standard deduction? You can call me if you want to discuss. We still have our Utah number until October.