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On Sunday, two of ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) yarrowkat's friends in the art department (Julia and Josh) stopped by to photo us in her yurt. They're doing a photo series on people in mobile housing. As they were setting up, Julia snapped tons of photos with a digital camera, while Josh painstakingly set up what can only be described as an ancient camera.
He spent so much time doing it that he started to get ribbed for the fact that the digital camera had already been through dozens of shots, and he was only going to get one or two. All the same, I found myself relating deeply to the act of interacting with the camera.
It wasn't the picture so much as the process. I often find myself doing things the hard way because I can control and understand the process as I'm doing it. People watching me work on my computer are equally split between "Wow, I can't believe how much work that just took you." and "Wow, that was completely amazing."
Which is a long way to get to my point. I just finished my taxes today. I probably didn't do them right. This is my first year dealing with a K-1. The IRS publishes a great document on how to take a K-1 and translate it into fields on your 1040. Following these instructions from a wizard designed to hide all that complexity from me was a complete pain. With the added bonus that I couldn't really check whether it was right.
Next year, I'm going to give Open Source Tax Solver a go. It's designed for people that don't mind reading IRS publications. After my experience using a program trying to *hide* that from me, I'm so ready to try something that isn't shy about presuming you know what you're doing.
For some reason, I think this has something to do with spending an hour with an archaic camera. But I can't explain how.
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