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Apr. 15th, 2006 11:19 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
bunrabOne of the nice things about Passover is that many kosher-for-Passover foods are low in salt, since some people are under the misapprehension that salt is a leavening agent. (It's not; it's a catalyst for yeast, but sugar is what the yeast actually eats to make it work, so if there's no yeast and sugar, then salt is not a problem. Anyway.) Obviously that's not true of everything - the sodium content in gefilte fish is ridiculous, for example. However, there are a great many unsalted matzoh and lots of cookies and cakes that don't have baking soda or baking powder in them. So I am cleared the neighborhood Safeway shelf of coconut macaroons, and bought some varieties of matzoh I've never seen before, like "sundried tomato, garlic and basil."
Sunday we'll go up to my sister's house near Philadelphia for Easter.
The joys of an eclectic upbringing.
Recent reading:
Nancy Kress, Nothing Human
Joan Hess, Malpractice in Maggody
anthology Crime Through Time II
Ed McBain, The Frumious Bandersnatch
Also re-read one of Sharyn McCrumb's Elizabeth McPherson series, just because it was there.
Finished one sock of the new pair I started the other day. Between Thursday's doctor's appointment and Friday's avoiding-doing-taxes moments, I got lots done! I did finish and mail the Federal taxes though. Still haven't even LOOKED at Maryland taxes.
Speaking of which, doesn't anybody besides me know about Certificate of Mailing? When I went into the post office at 6:15 (they close at 6:30) on Friday, I asked for a Certificate of Mailing, and the clerk told me that I was the first person all day to ask her for that for my IRS-addressed envelope, and she had had a LOT of them. Pretty much everyone wanted to send theirs registered or certified. She tried to tell them they don't need to spend that much, but apparently people don't listen. Maybe you-all will. If you don't want to drop your return in the mail with just regular postage, you can still get proof that you mailed it without going up to Certified Mail. A Certificate of Mailing, a/k/a Proof of Mailing slip costs only 95 cents, and proves that you handed your envelope addressed to the IRS over to the post office by the deadline. If the post office truck later runs off a bridge and into the river, and loses your return, the IRS can require you to send them another copy of all the forms, but they can NOT penalize you, because you did your legal part by getting it into the hands of the USPS by the deadline. So, all you Monday last-minuters, save yourself some money, and save the postal clerk some time, since the form is a lot simpler than the certified form and return receipt.
Sunday we'll go up to my sister's house near Philadelphia for Easter.
The joys of an eclectic upbringing.
Recent reading:
Nancy Kress, Nothing Human
Joan Hess, Malpractice in Maggody
anthology Crime Through Time II
Ed McBain, The Frumious Bandersnatch
Also re-read one of Sharyn McCrumb's Elizabeth McPherson series, just because it was there.
Finished one sock of the new pair I started the other day. Between Thursday's doctor's appointment and Friday's avoiding-doing-taxes moments, I got lots done! I did finish and mail the Federal taxes though. Still haven't even LOOKED at Maryland taxes.
Speaking of which, doesn't anybody besides me know about Certificate of Mailing? When I went into the post office at 6:15 (they close at 6:30) on Friday, I asked for a Certificate of Mailing, and the clerk told me that I was the first person all day to ask her for that for my IRS-addressed envelope, and she had had a LOT of them. Pretty much everyone wanted to send theirs registered or certified. She tried to tell them they don't need to spend that much, but apparently people don't listen. Maybe you-all will. If you don't want to drop your return in the mail with just regular postage, you can still get proof that you mailed it without going up to Certified Mail. A Certificate of Mailing, a/k/a Proof of Mailing slip costs only 95 cents, and proves that you handed your envelope addressed to the IRS over to the post office by the deadline. If the post office truck later runs off a bridge and into the river, and loses your return, the IRS can require you to send them another copy of all the forms, but they can NOT penalize you, because you did your legal part by getting it into the hands of the USPS by the deadline. So, all you Monday last-minuters, save yourself some money, and save the postal clerk some time, since the form is a lot simpler than the certified form and return receipt.
