I am going to work in spite of the MLK Day national holiday. Emily is still in Bodega so not much going on at home. Marika is on the plane going to Hawaii. We have been texting about what she sees and making mean comments. What fun! I will wear my traditional holiday garb today. Shorts and sandals. It is a beautiful day.
This morning I have an appointment with my Dixon real estate agent, Linda. As opposed to my Auburn agent, Kary. I am so wonderful I have two. Actually, each local market needs its own agent. Linda has been my agent for 20 years, and I am moving to Auburn and Linda suggested a new agent. She was correct, it helped to hire local.
But this morning it’s all about the accounting. I am here to go through her accounting in advance of preparing her corporate taxes. Usually takes an hour or so to straighten out her accounts to a point I can use the data in a mostly correct fashion. People who do their own accounting are not very good at it. They do truly screwy things, from a professional accountants point of view. I just try to be nice about it.
We also have time to catch up on things. You know, small town talk about local people. All the stuff I have “missed” since moving out of town. Linda’s assistant, Amanda, was there too. She has two kids, Peyton, the older was in Emily’s class. Amanda’s son is in her class now. Small town, you know. We are buying Girl Scout cookies from Peyton, her first year. Emily always buys far too many boxes from students and ex students. What is one more. One too many, is what. I still have cookies from two years ago in the freezer.
Off to work. Sunny day, clear roads. Nuff said.
Work has still not gotten better over the long weekend. Sad. Everyone was in the office when I got there. Nice when all show up for work on a national holiday. They do this on their own. There is no real schedule so it’s always a surprise to me. Today a pleasant one.
I got to work around noon. I was thinking of working all day. Which, in the end, was a problem.
No specific tasks today. So I used the day from Linda as a test of my just installed 2018 tax software and the Trump TC and JA passed last year. It helps to have live data to work with since it personalizes the result. And since the IRS has not finalized, and will not for weeks, the forms needed for a return, I can practice to my hearts content. Nothing else can be done. Gotta love your government and elected losers I mean leaders.
After practicing on the above return, I had little to do. Then I realized I had another clients complete tax package in hand. So I went through that one, actually two filing separately, and managed to finish them up. To the same point as above returns since, again, the POS IRS is still sitting on their hands. Pussies.
After this I decided to leave early, about 415. Nice cruise home. Charged with Marika in Hawaii. Called Emily. Couple clients even. Went to pet store too to get Jaxons overpriced special can food. Keeps him alive I guess. Keeps me broke for sure. Some day.
Ok, time to reveal. I had an in office appointment at 430 today. So I missed my meeting. Oops. Client, when I got ahold of him, was not to upset. He is a good guy. That’s the kind of client I need. Most are ok with my brain farts.
So, went home. Said hi to the wife. Spent my evening with the usual tasks. I had a really nice evening. I had marinated some sirloin strips this morning and that was dinner, along with a salad and the Chile relleno casserole. Beth has sent home some lemon squares she made. Now we have a complete meal.
The rest of the evening was bad TV and making the bed. The thrills a minute lifestyle is going to kill me one day. Though not today. I have made it to bedtime again.