Monday morning and the excitement is palpable. Ok, its not. But I did get to use a word like palpable. My 7/8 grade latin/greek teacher would be proud. Yes, I studied both, and sorry to say, latin and greek are important in writing still. That sound you just heard was all my old english teachers rolling in their graves. Lol.
I am sitting here at the kitchen table, Emiky just left. This is my best time fir writing something without interruptions. Unless Emily calls from the road. She does once or twice a week. I pick up the hiuse phone on my way in from seeing her off and set it at the table. I am lazy and dont like to get up for the phone. Emilys calls are usually road reports(accidents, dead animals) or reminders. My memory sucks. She helps, although she seems to resent the duty at times. No call today. Maybe I will get a telemarketer, 9 to 930 is their favorite time to call. Maybe I will talk to them, maybe hang up, maybe say something like “I want that!” then abruptly hang up. Lol. Wasting their time with a call just to entertain myself can be fun. If its the IRS call, i always engage them and lead them on. They are such idiots. No more stupid than the people who fall for it and actually send money. Some of my clients have called me about it and I have to explain why its crap.
So I got ready for work and head out. One stop on the way at the UPS store. I gotta mail back to a client the crap an auditor returned to me. If I don’t mail it back the clients will usually abandon their paperwork on me. Inhave some stuff that is ten years old. Yes, I still have it after ten years. We are talking about immense loads that cant be mailed. Anyhow, package mailed. I put my bill in the box. With charge for postage.
Direct to work after that. No appointments today, but plenty tomorrow. This time of year there is not so much work to do, as I have mentioned before. I seem to always find something to do, though. I did manage a phone call with an attorney for half an hour, and a loan agent for a client. Then sent off docs to him. I know what you are thinking, my day is dripping with excitement. No, it isn’t. But it pays the bills.
Middle of the day I went across town to a finance company. I had to make a payment in person on my daughters car loan. They failed to send a monthly statement. The company is a pain in the ass. They have zero online services so no payment that way. No phone number published and I found out no over the phone payments either. So drive over and pay. Of course, I am not my daughter so they refused to give me info on the missing mail. Love them. She pays extra each payment and they would not say how that was applied to the balance. I found out later, applied in their favor. Marika called later and straightened them out well enough.
Back to work and the excitement continues. Worked on more tax returns. I should mention, my tax software company has been telling me for a couple months that the 2017 software would require a hardware upgrade. Well, this afternoon I updated the 2016 and as soon as I did the 2016 stopped working. What a bunch of assholes. If I knew they were going to screw me I could have updated my hardware. Of course the company was closed when I called to look for a fix. I hate them. Truly hate them.
Not long after this debacle, I went home. A day like today can really drain you. Go home and drink.
When I got home I did make a drink. A Mai Tai, to compare to last nights. Mine are way better than Trader Vics. Sorry Trader, but some modification is required. At least that worked out. We had leftovers and lamb chops for dinner. The leftovers were rack of lamb so they did go together well. Dinner was great, and I dont think Emily even broke a sweat. She is that good.
After dinner we watched TV for an hour and went to bed.