The Dynamic Duo

Well, I really want to keep up with writing here, and I would dearly love to be writing at the same time as my dear UltraMom, but I always seem to find myself finally getting around to trying to write something when bedtime is eminent. I got that extra comment I needed too, so I need to work on another off those longer posts about the house hunt.

The house, by the way, seems to be coming along pretty well. The frame is all done, and the roof tiles are on. There is some black tar paper like stuff on the outside, and some chicken wire looking stuff stapled on top of that. I think the chicken wire stuff is likely for the purpose of giving the siding something to grip, so I think the siding will go up soon. It looks like they are working inside the house quite a bit now, so though we can’t go in there I’m guessing that is progressing as well.

In other news, I got my taxes for Japan done yesterday. Now to do them for the U.S. I’ve probably already whined on here about how the U.S. government charges for taxes even when I make all my money abroad so I won’t go into it again. Just to head off comments about it at the pass though, I have my own business, and so the place I’m getting nailed is, if I recall correctly, social security taxes which don’t fall under the $80,000 foreign income credit. Which reminds me, Japan and the U.S. recently came to some agreement about retirement taxes paid in one country applying to the other country’s retirement system so I need to ask my accountant about that for this year.