lillian13 | Just another tax-paying morning as I ramble along (Reply)

The State of Texas actually did something right for once. During the Tech Bust of 2000-2001 (oh how innocent we were then), they hired a bunch of coders and web developers and turned them loose on the tax collection website for the state. The result? I paid my sales taxes for the year in under 15 minutes, a chunk of which was spent calculating my total sales for the year.

*Is pleased.*

Looks like I don't have any jewelry shows until April or May. Depends on if the Violet Crown folks decide to do a spring show or not. I did discover that the Starving Artists Show I used to do in San Antonio has been replaced with a $200-a-booth "fine arts" show. Juried with Zapplication, which means I'd need much higher-resolution photos of my work than I do now. And pay a fee. Um, no. New show in this economy? Sorry, not doing it.

In the meantime, I'll be taking a chasing and repoussage class. I'm looking for good line art of a trilobite or dinosaur bones....

People keep telling me I should sell at Wiscon. Anyone out there gone to Wiscon?

You know where I want to go? (With money, of course.) Tuscon. In February. Maybe I'll be able to do it in a couple of years.

Heh. On the money front--about a month ago, one of my 2 remaining credit cards informed me that they were rate-jacking me. I called my credit union and explained what was going on and had the loan to pay the suckers off in about 10 minutes. So, instead of them getting my money for another couple of years, they don't. And if I have anything to say about it, Citi will never get my money ever again. So now I'm down to 1 credit card. Which I really want to get paid off ASAP. (We'll see if the car, etc. cooperates.)

Oh! Oh! My brother scored me a "new" dryer. Even brought it over and helped me install it. The old one is on the porch (until I'm sure the new one works OK). If everything is OK, I'll just borrow his truck and haul the old one down the street to Goodwill. Let them deal with the drama.