Friday, February 29, 2008
Always plan spring break in pencil
| In December, I started fleshing out my plans for my Spring Break. Basically I had a choice of 4 destinations: Jacksonville, FL; Macon, GA; Conyers, GA; or Pennsylvania. I opted to do a PA trip. Stopping off at my brothers in DC on the way up, then following Emily's Toybox around for 3 or 4 concerts in eastern PA. Once they released their March schedule I had my plans set. I'd be hitting Shippensburg, State College, Hershey, Northampton, Pennsberg, and King of Prussia, PA. Only concerts in State College, Northampton, and Pennsberg. The other three were special places I wanted to get by someday. (I suspect only one or two people reading this will know why.) I was nervous about the weather up north, but figured I'd press forward anyway. I started locating hotels and getting driving directions. Lets call this Plan A. Then the IRS decided they wanted to be my proctologist and everything changed. Apparently the state of Georgia is rather PO'd that I left. By my calculations, NC owed me $32, I owed the feds $750, and I owed GA $1275. That is not a typo. Plan B: Sit at home and sell everything not nailed down on Ebay to pay my taxes. Then I happened to find out that my parents would be doing some interesting things for Spring Break and those would be a heck of a lot cheaper than a huge trip to PA. After all, family trips are free! (Well, free for me. If you come along, we may charge you a cover fee.) Plan C: The first weekend (starting today actually) a trip to my parents, where we'll be meeting up with 2 of my aunts and uncles for the weekend. We'll be doing some in state travel to visit several family related sites. Then the last weekend of Spring Break we'd be going to visit my brother and his family up in DC. Then I get an email that my father's plans up on Gettysburg, PA have changed and he wont be leaving til late Sunday or Monday. Plan D: I go visit my parents the first part of spring break as in Plan C, but spend the rest of spring break at home, possibly selling everything I own on Ebay to pay my taxes. Then I finally break down and go get my taxes done by a professional. I hope I don't go to jail. Now instead of me owing Uncle Sam $750, I only owe them $450. NC now owes me $52, but the real kicker is that instead of owing GA over $1200, they now owe me $25. Plan E: It's my spring break, I own a truck, and I'm over 18. I can do anything I want. So today I'm going to my parents, as in plans C and D, then next week I am going to drive myself up to DC and drive back whenever I want to. This is where things currently stand. I have had one small addition, but it won't change Plan E. On Monday morning I have been invited by the librarian of a local elementary school to come read a book to some children. Of course I'll be taking "The Big Orange Splot" again. Me and Mr. Plumbean will reunite to educate and entertain children. I am contemplating the purchase of a huge fake handlebar mustache for my Plumbean impersonations. Hopefully there will be a few pictures. If I wear the fake moustache there will be no pictures. Anyway, I am sorry there are no links in this post. It certainly deserves a few. I may come back later and edit this post to put some in. But for right now I am trying to get out the door before plans have a chance to change again! Until I can get back to a working Internet connection (Monday?) I hope you have a great spring break! Oh...... sorry!  |
