What does one do on a wet early April day? Taxes, of course. I have put all of our income into TurboTax and now I am entering charitable contributions, which is a slow and painful process. For some reason, entering a charitable contribution in Turbo Tax requires me to fill out at least three screens – you’d think they were designing for 3270 terminals instead of a GUI environment. And even though they carry the list of charities along from year to year, I haven’t found any way to alphabetize them!

We did manage to get a couple of walks in during brief breaks in the rain (one of which was so brief that we got pretty wet anyway). I’d bought halibut yesterday, which we rarely cook, so I let Bing pick out a recipe to try; I did have to make a few adaptations to fit the ingredients on hand, but it came out pretty good (and, since we had bought gluten-free panko-style crumbs, I could make it again during Passover if I wanted).

And we called the travel agent who had coordinated the Japan/Korea trip we were supposed to be leaving on tomorrow and asked them to apply our credit to a Malta/Sicily trip next May – I’m hopeful that it will really happen.

I knew it was going to be a different kind of day today when I went out to pick up the papers and the Merc was squishy, despite being packed in a plastic bag. In normal times, I would have called for a replacement; today, I just found places to spread the paper out and let it dry.

We made our usual run to the Farmer’s Market for fish, but it was raining too much to take a long walk; instead, we drove to Nob Hill and picked up some necessities (wearing masks, of course).

We had hoped to watch City Lights’s production of Coded and I still might, but the audio was too hard to understand on our TV (maybe headphones would help). Instead, we watched the National Theatre’s production of One Man, Two Guvnors (available to Thursday, April 9) – since it was recorded for presentation in movie theaters (excuse me, cinemas), the audio was clear and pellucid, and the humor (excuse me, humour) was broad and welcome. We haven’t laughed so hard in a long time.

And the rains paused for a while after dinner, so we managed one decent walk for the day – all told, not a bad day!