Not for me. This is Tuesday. I went to work on the holiday. I understand this is not such a popular holiday as a day off. Some jobs allow 7 or less holidays a year and this one doesn’t often get the vote. Maybe middle of January when it’s cold and all the big holidays just passed don’t lead to need for a day off. I always feel like working in January. I dont feel it in June. At that point I want the balance of the year off. It’s retirement practice.
Today is busy. Rachel appointment at nine, doctor appointment at 2. Need my 2nd Shingles vaccine and I don’t know what else. My doctor runs my appointment schedule and I just follow along. Seems to work. I just need to remember to show up.
So nothing going at doc’s except my wife wants me to ask him questions. I never hide from the doctor, I tell him everything. She is just a worrier. I bet she doesn’t tell her doctor all. Like the fact that she is crazy.
Am at the coffee house now. Rachel was not ready for me when I arrived late. All her fault. The coffee place is relatively new. For Dixon it’s quite radical. They serve truly European style coffee. And charge for it. But anytime I am downtown I stop in and get one. Need to support the effort. Great cup of coffee and the usual Starbucks mediocre. These guys don’t have a huge bank of bottled flavorings to put in your coffee. Just like overseas. You can drink straight coffee when it tastes fantastic. I have ten minutes.
So I notice something, may not be odd, seems such. There are about 15 customers and one employee. All women. I am the only man in here. Starbucks is full of testosterone but not this place. Weird. Oh, they also sell local produce and meat. And pastries. All that crap is organic or whatever. That I hardly care about. It’s all quite pricey too. Coffee as well but man is it good.
It’s been 14 minutes. I am walking back to Rachel’s. She was ready when I got there. Rachie was so quick this time I hardly had a chance to say hello.
I did say goodbye.
Quick trip to work. Again, not much doing. Still have quite a few new house chores. I received the property inspection report and took time to review it. Surprisingly, not many problems. 3 were of semi serious nature and the seller is going to fix them. The other 20 or so items were really of a minor nature. I want to fix them. But I don’t own it yet. Maybe after they hand over the keys.
Also had a few conversations with agent Kary. About the inspection and what to do with it. Discussed where she emailed the disclosures I need to sign and have not yet seen. We found that, finally. She used a combination of two different emails. Fun fact, that actually does not work.
Next up spoke to loan broker Karstin. Same issues, disclosures I did not receive. No one seems capable of sending disclosures via email. At this point, 925pm. I did find one and sent it back. Via email. And she got it.
Spent a couple hours invoicing for year end reports. That was fun. Getting paid for them is truly fun as hell. Actually it is the only fun I get on the job.
I had a Dr appointment at 215. Missed that. I need someone to remind me of all my appointments just before they are scheduled to occur. I just can not keep them in mind. I need to reschedule.
Client Shaun dropped by and gave me 5 lbs of coffee beans. And a friend just sent me 5 lbs of coffee for the hell of it. It’s like a wealth of coffee beans.
For instance, my next appointment. Kyle. He had an appointment with me yesterday at 430 and I left early and missed it. Because I completely forgot it. Well, he came back today at 5pm for another try. And he brought goodies. A fifth of bourbon and a few bottles of hot sauce that he is making for sale to the public. I missed an appointment and was still rewarded with tribute. Awesome.
We had a nice catching up on our lives. Kyle and I used to work together. He was in the office next door, him and his dog Sasha. Sasha weighs about 150 lbs and is sweet as hell. So we had to catch up. He is suing his med insurance provider. They said he had insurance and allowed a surgery and then after denied his coverage and billed him 28k$ He is suing them.
His new company, the hit saice one, has an animated portrait of his dog on the label. Cool.
I managed to do about 70% of his personal and LLC returns before the IRS stopped me. Remember, they have not released all the forms yet and it is impossible to complete a return. The IRS is a bunch of stupid and foolish assholes. Don’t tell them, they think they are cool.
I left work at about 630. Late but I gotta give Kyle his due especially after missing the appointment yesterday. Went to Baldo’s in the way home. It’s my backup place for taco Tuesday. Lupitas, first choice, closes before I will be able to get there. That is a shame. But I still got carnitas and fish tacos and beans. So a feast was had. Also put some of the new hot sauce on my Mexican food. Sauce has great flavor but it’s white boy hot. I want Hispanic hot.
Now for the evening dose must not see TV. I could skip the show but Emily loves the TV. Loves it. So we watch. Now, we go to bed.