Woke pretty early, dozed on and off up to the alarm, lazed a bit after
hydro surge ~7:15a, +caf by 8:30, morning on-track showered and fresh clothes ~9:30
29g cocoa SPI bev
canned tuna with lentils, chickpeas, chopped romaine, pepperoncini, black olive, evoo + red vinegar
Big salad but I'm still hankerin' for a ciabatta. I guess carb cravings are a human universal.

xfer car pymt
laundry
what was the point of buying muffin mix to address cravings if it just sits unmade forever
finish tax prep
move the car out of potential treefall path :p

Tax prep was complicated by DC's penalty for health noncoverage, which is exempted for part-year residence (if noncoverage coincided with nonresidency). DC also has this weird "married filing separately combined" option, and, well, why is "separately combined" even a thing? but apparently you can file "separately combined" in DC even if you filed a federal return jointly (or vice versa?), and owe (or be owed) different amounts depending which status you choose.

The War Between The States established that once you join the Union as a state, you don't get to secede - so this patchwork of administrative regulations feels like a trap. Not just state income tax, but many significant middle-class issues like inheritance (just 5 states tax it), personal vehicles taxed as "property" (27 states, a few calling it a "value-based registration fee" instead of "tax" per se), etc.

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The Guardian: Leave big tech behind! HT replace Amz, G, X, Meta, Apple and more

Alphabet's cloud drive free-tier allows 20GB; Proton's is only 5GB.
- 5GB should be ample for spreadsheets
- for cloud-accessible [note/scratch]pad docs, Joplin's best free store/sync option is Dropbox
- Proton Docs lack of support for tabs or outline-level navigation means a rethink of some pads
- Prot.Drv doesn't natively support Joplin's WebDAV; no easy Prot.Drv sync options for smartfons

ODS (OpenDoc Spreadsheet) is the native file format of mature open-source office spreadsuites including LibreOffice. G Sheets will happily export a workbook to ODS (OpenDoc Spreadsheet, native format for mature open-source suites like LibreOffice, OpenOffice etc.); Proton however can only import XLSX and CSV formats, so, that's a bit dumb. Copying G sheet contents to the clipboard and pasting directly into P Sheets is spotty; even features supported in P Sheets (frozen rows/columns? merged cells?) can prevent a paste.

Unlike Alphabet, which supplies separate apps for its Drive, Docs and Sheets, Proton integrates Docs editing and Sheets viewing all together in their Drive app. Mobile sheets editing is "coming soon"; I believe it, because there's a lot of momentum in EU, with many nations leery of continued dependence on U.S.-based Big Tech.