Fiscal Playground

I'm probably the only one I know that will admit that I love to sit and play with financial planning software, like Quicken. Not that I have a lot of money to play around with, but I love squeezing a few tenths of a percent in one column to watch the other column swell. I'm actually enthralled with the retirement planner, in which I ( theoretically ) will retire at 67 with enough left over to tide me over through 18 years of retirement, but not before buying a home in 2015 using my saving from account J as the down payment which I've been squirreling away since.... Well, you get the idea. Yes folks, I actually find this stuff fun. Why yes, I DO enjoy simManagment games, how did you know?

This reminds me of the fact that it's tax season. Taxes are not quite as fun, because you've always got this fear that somewhere, somehow, you're going to magically end up in major debt with The Man. I don't really consider it as much a chore as some folks do, but then my taxes are pretty simple.

Looking forward to a pretty active weekend, with the climax Sunday evening of Superbowl 40. This year is going to be as close to a Superbowl party as I've ever come, with my brother and my boss coming over to watch the game. I've never watched football with my boss, but there are two key notes about him I'll have to keep in mind:

1. I hear he's very animated when watching football.
2. He's a diehard Steelers fan.

Yep, this should be interesting. :-)