TGIF

[mdlbear]

Started out the morning -- well, after the LJ and coffee, anyway -- with a trip downtown to the CA State Board of Equalization, which for some unguessable reason is what they call the place where you register for a sales tax account. Mild screw-up because I'd filled out the wrong form. Apparently I'm not the only one who got the wrong form off their website. Took a little over an hour.

I had my new tweed hat (that I'd bought at Dickens Fair a couple of weeks ago) in my jacket pocket, and it fell out in the office. Unfortunately, I didn't notice until I'd gotten back to my car, up four flights of stairs in the Second and San Carlos garage. Cursing to myself, I quickly dashed back down and up the stairs, in case I'd dropped it there, then got out of the garage, parked at a parking meter, and retraced my steps. Luckily, somebody had found it.

I very nearly skipped my walk, figuring that going up and down four flights of stairs twice probably counted as exercise, but it was a nice day and I felt like walking. I even did the hill both ways.

Got very little done at work in the afternoon. Evening was the annual Golden Bough winter concert. Wonderful, as usual. A 16-year family tradition.

Comments

[kennita.livejournal.com]

As an SBOE candidate and Roving Do-Gooder, I feel compelled to elucidate. The Board of Equalization handles pretty much all taxes in the state except the income tax (which is handled by the Franchise Tax Board). From the BOE Web site: "Created in 1879 by a constitutional amendment, the Board of Equalization was initially charged with responsibility for ensuring that county property tax assessment practices were equal and uniform throughout the state." I haven't found out exactly how it acquired responsibility for all the other taxes (probably "We need to collect more taxes; might as well have the same people responsible rather than creating a new organization."), but they didn't see fit to change the name. Hah -- a guess at the unguessable! :-)

[mdlbear]

Ah; that explains it, then.