Taxes in Texas.

... Here goes nothing!

I want to start off with our housing. Yeah, our housing. Can you say spoiled much? You heard about the living quarters last round, well this is just a tad better. First off, we're living in a minor league baseball training facility for the next two months which is actually not in Wichita Falls, but in Burkburnett, TX (9 miles from the Oklahoma border, by the way). Anyway, so yes, we're living in the Burkburnett Black Sox Minor League Baseball training facility. Oh yeah. So, it's made up of three decent sized one floor buildings. One is the dorm consisting of a kitchen, two bathrooms, two showers, three separate sleeping areas (one smaller one designated for the TL, one for the gals, one for the guys), and a lounging room with couches, a computer, and two TVs (one small one for the game systems, and a flat screen for watching TV). We also have two washers and dryers as well. Oh! and we have wireless. The second building has batting cages (and another kitchen and sleeping areas, etc). The third building has a weight room for our use as well. Oh and those other rooms also include pool and ping pong tables. Plus we have the field in the back for PT use, as well as use of the high school's track that's only a mile away. With all of that, I think it's safe to say we're just a tad spoiled.

Now that that's out in the open let's backtrack to Saturday. Saturday morning we departed bright 'n early for spike number 2 driving through Colorado, New Mexico, and Texas. Then driving through Texas for a few hours this morning reaching our destination earlier this afternoon.

When we arrived we got a grand tour by the general manager of the Black Sox and then we got to meet our sponsors. Here's the deal: we're working with the North Texas Area United Way (http://www.ntauw.org/) working on tax returns for low income people and families in the Greater Wichita Falls Metropolitan Area which consists of the towns: Burkburnett, Iowa Park, and Henrietta.

Tomorrow we start training to become tax certified, woo! We'll be taking our classes at Midwestern State University (back to schooool, yup!). So the next two weeks will consist of that training and meeting with the United Way staff.

Here's to the beginning of round 2!