I was sitting on the couch watching TV today when my watch buzzed with a message. It was the California Franchise Tax Board (the state IRS) telling me that there was a “new notice or document available in your myFTB account.”

Needless to say, this distracted me, but I decided to finish watching anyway. After the show ended, I logged in – but I couldn’t find any new notices.

I did, though, notice that I hadn’t scheduled estimated tax payments for 2021 – needless to say, I fixed that right away! And I fixed it for the IRS, too. The first payments are due in two weeks, so this was a timely, if inadvertent, reminder.

This evening, I went back to the myFTB site to make sure the payments were truly scheduled (they were) and found a new notice in my account. It wasn’t for anything significant, but I was glad to finally see it!

Apparently the Repels-All has helped with the critter situation in our raised beds – there was no new damage today.

This evening, we saw “A Brilliant Mind” from Marin Theatre Company. The play was mostly filmed in advance, but there was a live actor being seamlessly brought in for certain segments (monologues) via YouTube, and there was a little bit of interaction between the audience and that actor. We couldn’t stick around for the talkback, unfortunately – it would have been interesting to find out how they put it all together.

The play itself was a story of a Palestinian immigrant family coping with the death of their father – there were generational conflicts, issues of gender, and what happens when your family “doesn’t fit”. I enjoyed it – it’s playing through June 13th.