postscript: screwed by home insurance

A few people have asked me, and I wondered even before they did, if homeowner's insurance covers bike theft. Mine specifically excludes "sports equipment", unless I pay extra, which I haven't done. A quick google suggests that that does indeed mean that yes, insurance companies (justifiably, in my case) consider a bicycle to be sports equipment. In other words, I'm SOL. That makes me feel a tad better about running out and buying Miss Indigo on credit so quickly.

update: I've ordered the last of the toys for market research.

I've got four sex toys out in the wild and five more on order. I'm done with ordering. Thank you all for your support!

Nun tries to be thankful for a small blessing.

I just mailed my taxes. The refund isn't as hefty as I'd like – the mid four figures, as opposed to the low five figures of the days of a full year of alimony – but it's better than nothing.

In that filing I included what I hope is my last ever IRS Form 1040 Schedule 1, which is where you say how much alimony you paid, and to whom. It also includes my first of many Schedule A, which is where you report the mortgage interest deduction. The mortgage interest deduction does handily beat the standard deduction. Computing the mortgage interest deduction is a little bit bananas partly because of Trump, but c'est l'argent.