Taxation
Taxes, taxes, my room is covered in bloody taxes. At least they’re all done, if slightly incorrectly. The online tax software I was using wasn’t quite advanced enough to correctly work out when my estimated payments were and… this isn’t very interesting is it? The short of it is that I ended up paying an underpayment penalty unnecessarily, but it would have cost more than the amount of that penalty — plus another three hours of my life — to switch to another piece of software. Eugh.
Beethoven also had to deal with all this crap, as detailed in these pages over at the Beethoven Haus, which sounds like a nice place to visit. Having had my fill of finance for the weekend I am far more interested in their store. I could do with some Beethoven brandy, for a start. I also kind of like the creepiness of the death mask bust.
Aside form the consumerism, there are all kinds of museum-cool type things on this site: pages from his notebooks, portraits, caricatures, instruments. Start at the digital archives section and browse away.