We are live for another unannounced live stream. I have to speak a little low tonight because it is late and we have some guests and I don't want to disturb them.

So FYI for those who are wondering

John why do you sound like you have an NPR voice that's why I sound like I have an NPR

voice right now it's been a long day for me I had a great weekend by the way. I hope everyone else had a great weekend.

It was Easter Sunday or Resurrection Sunday as many in my church call it and got to go be with the family afterward but it was a long day.

We had the Sunrise Service which I did not go to.

It would have been a longer day if I did that. And then there was a Easter

morning, a resurrection Sunday morning breakfast, did that and special music and flowers and then the service and by the way someone who listens to this podcast came

they actually travel the distance to come to the service,

which was quite a treat to be able to talk to someone

who's one of the listeners out there.

And so we had a great time and then went to the family's house and you know then get back to late in the

evening so that's I guess that's a typical holiday day but I'm exhausted not

because of that but because it's tax week and because it is tax week

I in my I did start last week. I did start on my filing, but today was, and yesterday really were like two full days spent just figuring out taxes and my taxes have become so complicated.

And I wonder, like, I I wondered yesterday why do I keep thinking

about being off the grid somewhere out west working as a cowboy or something oh that

might be why it dawned on me I like, why do I keep having this thought?

Because the taxes are so complicated and such a headache. That's why. It's just, it's

amazing to me. It's amazing to me. It's amazing to me. It could be so much easier.

It's, I'm wondering if we have the most complicated tax code in the entire world. We must. I just can't

conceive of it ever being any more complicated than it is but

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