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Sorry guys, I haven't been here lately, I have too much going on. We had to sell the Florida place, we have enjoyed it and loved it for 14 years. MrsD100 is in good health but the combination of meds etc. that she takes has made her Medical Travel Insurance go to $50 a day. We stay in Florida for 5 months. Mine costs abot $12 a day.
The real estate market is a tough one but the home sold quickly, it was reasonably priced and is perfect for the right buyer, and the it suits this buyer perfectly. I had a lot to do dealing with real estate and keeping the place presentable for showings.
When we bought the house we went to the real estate office, signed a few papers, were out in half an hour, and had the keys and we owned the place.
14 years later selling requires all kinds of forms to be filled out....lots of checking I.D.s since there is a lot of scams going on. And then tax forms, going to the title office, dealing with home inspection requirements which is a whole other story etc.
My plan is to come to Florida for 3 months next year, and MrsD100 would come down in the middle for a month.
I sold my beloved Red 2014 C250 with 50000 miles on it. It was like a new car. I had it for 10 years. Paid $25000 and sold it quickly for $10000, it needed one repair, a stone went through the windshild washer plastic container and that cost $350 to fix. So it cost about $1500 a year to drive. I would have kept it but there is too much involved in getting it back to Canada.
I have one question which I'll ask next, below.

@snakeweasel said:

All I can say is tax season started weird and is getting weirder. It started off with a 19 year old girl who made $2,400 trying to claim her 3 year old daughter and get earned income credit. We all know she wasn't supporting herself let alone herself and a child. Then came a 21 year old college student who was living at home with her mom and wanted to claim her 2 year old sister. Sorry but you and your sister should be claimed by her mother. She stormed out yelling that nobody can tell her how to file. We had a lady that became upset when she found out that her Chevy Trax was made in Korea and didn’t qualify for the auto loan deduction.

Then there was yesterday, a lady came in and was missing some of her paperwork but could download them on her phone. Problem was they cut off her phone service and she needed her tax refund to get the money to pay her bill to get her phone back on. She became upset that we didn't have wifi for her to use. She complained that as a company with all the computers why we didn't have wifi to connect them. I explained that they were hard wired together for security reasons as we have sensitive information. So there was no way she could get the paperwork she needed. And even if she could she would still need cell service to transmit the information to us so we could use it as to get it in our system we needed to text her a link so she could upload it. She wasn't very happy about all this.

Looking forward to the rest of the tax season.

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It would have been a lot easier for all of them to do their taxes the way I do mine.

jmonroe

In regards to that, the IRS was asking me if I really was your dependent.😫

Got back into town this evening. Good trip, overall. I may have shared this here before, but Chicago is my second favorite city, after NOLA. It's usually affordable (and desirable) to stay in the city center, and you don't need a car. I parked in East Chicago (free parking) and the South Shore Line took me to within a block of my hotel for $7 and change. Really enjoyed the walking architecture tour I took--I'll probably line up a few of those on my next trip. I also managed to hit what I will call a Chicago food quadfecta (not at the same meal, lol): an Italian beef sandwich, a Chicago style hot dog, Chicago style pizza, and an old-school Italian restaurant.

Here are some photos from the auto show:



Subaru has the most outdoorsy and most memorable display, by far.



Goose Island brought an entire train car to sell beer from.


Thought @roadburner would appreciate this one!


I loved the color on this Aston.



The overlanding section was pretty cool. I find it otherwise cringeworthy, but the paint color on this Corolla Cross was amazing.