I must still be alive because I am typing this.  I actually feel quite wonderful, but I am also very, very tired.  When I got home about 11:00 from the audit I felt so good that there was no way I could sit down to work.  I had tried to get caught up the night before, not knowing how long it would last, but if I had felt like working I'm sure that I could have found something to do.  But I did not feel like working.  I felt so relieved, like that huge weight had been lifted from my shoulders.  I've thought a lot about the interview since and I have concluded that I must have come across okay, but that he needed to show something so we 'agreed' that we need to pay $500 because I can't deduct for taking Sheila out to dinner.  There were a couple of other things too, but all in all it wasn't anything like what I imagined it might have been.  I still believe what I told him; that taxes are a 'game' and most folks can never keep up with everything.  He seemed to agree with me and I think that he just wanted to get something and let me get on my way.  Then this evening when Richard finally got here he brought in so much new work that I am burdened.  I did apply myself to get the 'urgent' stuff done, but I am leaving the rest of it until tomorrow when I can start fresh and refreshed.  Tomorrow is the beginning of a new month and I feel it is a new start for me too.  I am a new man, ready and willing to begin a new path of sorts.  It just all feels different now.  The problems in my live haven't all gone away, but now that 'that' problem has gone away (or will as soon as we get the check in the mail with the appropriate paperwork) I am free to buckle down and just do what needs doing.  And even though I still see my life as a humongous task hanging over  me I feel relief that I got 'that one' out of the way.