US Wins 58th Consecutive Football Championship

Yesterday was the Superbowl, the most watched event of any kind in the US. An estimated 200 million Americans tuned in for it on TV. And they were rewarded with a US victory! And not just any victory but a back-to-back, 58 times victory!



That, of course, is because this championship is for a league that only US teams belong to. The finalists were my hometown San Francisco 49ers, favored by a couple of points by oddsmakers over the defending Kansas City Chiefs.

The 'Niners played strongly throughout regulation time but the Chiefs scored a field goal late in the 4th quarter to send the game into overtime. The Niners scored a field goal to take the lead, but then under the league's new overtime rules the Chiefs got one possession to decide their win or loss. They capitalized on the opportunity with a successful touchdown drive, winning the game in sudden-death.

I Started My Taxes Already

This past weekend I worked a bit on my taxes. I'd say I started my taxes already except that that's a misleading statement. I actually started them a year ago. I start keeping records for the tax year starting on January 1. Usually by now I have most of my 1099s for the previous year and start working on my tax filing, but this year some of them are a little slow. Thus this weekend I spent some time combing through one of the 1099s and comparing it to my own records— I found a mistake in my records!— but I did not start entering data into TurboTax yet.

Ah, TurboTax. The software I have an abusive relationship with.



Maybe next weekend? Oh, but it's a holiday weekend and I might be traveling. Plus I don't know when those other 1099s will come in. Maybe the weekend of Feb 24-25. I'll probably have been slapped around at work a bunch by then and will be ready to be slapped around by tax software.