Mosh Glass

It’s Sunday night about 830. I just finished eating half a strawberry cupcake that had the faintest taste and after taste of licorice. It was good but getting rid of the taste of anise would be an improvement. Our appetizer for this was some of the new thin Oreos. They taste, strangely, just like Oreos. I had thought the cookie part would be thick with the lard and sugar center being thinner. But the whole damn cookie was thinner. Not an improvement.

Dinner was a garden salad with bbq chicken in it. Emily made a dressing with bbq sauce in it. The salad was a hit.

Today I pretty much had a normal work day. I got up, read the paper, ate breakfast and went to work. I did 10 or so bank recons followed by a few tax returns. A normal day. Only it’s Sunday. And I wanted to be at home. Doing something, anything, else with my day. Shopping, a movie, out to lunch, not work. But work beckons. And sucks. I am going to do it again tomorrow I think. As for today, we are watching a tearjerker on the Mac (TV no sound) and folding laundry. We live on the edge.

I am trying to buy a UV filter for my domestic well. We are selling and the water tests came back with coliform present. So unfortunately I have to add this filter to make everyone happy. Gonna end up costing about $750.

So I went to the Aquasana website thinking I could buy one. I have the part number. I know the cost. No problem, right? Problem. It took about ten minutes to find the part, there is no search function. The part was part of a system only. As far as I can tell it is only sold through website bundled wih other filters. Minimum cost $1100. Wrong for me. I already have all the other pieces. I spoke to a sales agent on Friday and it is sold individually. So why can’t I get it off the website? No problem, they have, according to their crappy website, phone hours on Saturday and Sunday. I will call then. Problem. They don’t actually have those adbertis d hours. These people are morons. Did they not get the memo? Sell off the website, it’s the new age thing. Why would you drive me to a live agent? And why wouldn’t you update your hours on the site? I am, right now, in the middle of a call with them. By call I mean on hold which is where the phone system put me. I do not know if I will ever actually get to talk to anyone. I think their bullshit website dovetails with this bullshit phone system. Probably no one there and they don’t care to fix it. Assholes. Unfortunately, I have the sales agents extension and name, the one I spoke to on Friday. I am going to leave her a message, no profanity, about wtf is wrong with her company. That will be fun. Let’s see, website non accessibility and errors, phone system not working, inability to order. That’s probably enough. Oh yeah, 14 mins on hold for who? Anyone there? I will call now while I am still pissed off.

I spent the balance of my day moving crap around. Getting ready for eventual sale and he big move. Don’t know where I am moving too but need to be ready. So I packed up the garage. I also had to sort all that was in the garage to two areas: sell and keep. I moved more from the house to the garage as well. Kept me busy all day. I went nowhere. Emily was at a baby shower all day. I think, for once, I would rather do that. Oh yeah, I cleaned out the barn of all things I want to keep and left all things in the barn as sale items. I can not tell you how much fun it was. I just can’t tell you.

Emily got home about five. She went in to work on report cards. I continued my pack and move till about 530. I went in and suggested we might want to think about dinner. So I went to the freezer and pulled out some chicken to defrost.

We both kept on working on our seperate tasks while he chicken defrosted. Emily made a marinade for the Bors and also a salad. I cranked up the bbq and we managed to eat at about 730.

This has been a very long day and too much hard work. I am sore and tired. Tomorrow I will be in the office all day. Not as physical but still too damn much work. I am looking forward to it.

I am going out to the garage one last time. I have one more thing to move from the sale pile to the keep pile. I think it’s the last item. We can hope.

I am going to bed soon. I am tired to the bone. Not sure I can stay awake to read. Maybe a little. But the book I have is not very good.

It’s cold and windy today. And clear and sunny as well. I will dress for that today. Need to add a jacket. I am heading out to the gym in a moment but was called back inside at the last minute.

Spoke to my RE agent. We need to settle the water issue. I may need to add a bacteria killer to the system. I called the filter guys and was pleased to find out that these filters are on sale at 50% off through next Wednesday. That makes it only $582.50 for the unit. Yikes. Only 582.50. Shipping is free. I gotta be more careful when I sell a house next. I also have to pay the plumber to install. But, this is he last money pit item I have to endure before this place is sold. Or so they tell me. I will be happy to be a renter. And, btw, my regular pump guy wants $1700 to install same. So 582.50 is looking like the low price leader.

Workout was the usual. I am getting some new workout activities on Monday. Probably Tuesday cuz Monday is tight. I will see what the new gal has to offer at least.

Back from workout, more phone calls and texts. Got cleaned up. Out the door, the traffic was backed up like nobody’s business and moving slow. I was 20 mins late for my first appointment. That’s really bad because it backs up the whole day. I do not like that. But I deal.

First appointment with an 85 year old lady. It’s funny, really old people are always mentioning how old they are. And how little time they have left. I don’t know why. She is the mother of another client. That’s usually how people show up, referred by friends or relatives. It was an easy return and I finished it in twenty minutes.

Next client is an engineer. Generally, I don’t do business with engineers. They are a pain in the ass. But I do like him. He was referred by his niece who was a long time employee of mine. Decent guy. Takes after his niece. That’s a good thing.

Next gal, owns a kitchen and bath design company. In Loomis which is near Auburn. She referred me to George Henley, the general on my Auburn house build. And also referred me to Mike Malinowski my architect. So she gets a pass on anything. Her returns were not as easy. I prepped her Corp taxes before she arrived. So I was able to finish her personal taxes today while she was here. It’s handy to get done fast. I know she has to be the one to go after the kitchen and bathrooms on my house. There has to be some reward for putting up wih me.

After all were gone I switched gears to cleaning up other things in my way, doing payroll for the office, and going to the bank. There is way too much admin crap in the way of making money. If I had less I would be wealthy. I finished up my day at 645. I am meeting Emily across the street at a restaurant and we are having dinner.

Emily was a little late but we did have reservations so it doesn’t matter. Dinner was very good. Cocktails were good. I had an Old Fashioned as did Emily. They do a very good take on an OF. Of course, mine are far better. And I don’t say so myself, Emily said it. I just agree. Mine are excellent. I did have an excellent entree, pork tenderloin cooked perfectly wih sweet potato mash on the side. Also perfect. We both opted out of dessert and had coffee. And it was hot enough which means it is excellent coffee. Most places don’t understand coffee must be hot.

We left, picked up our cars from valet (it’s free) and headed home. Quiet quick drive. Nice.

Got home and let the dogs out. Me, I let the dogs out. They were in all day and both had their legs crossed when I got home. No accidents. Or on purposes.

We decided to have cupcakes for dessert. We still have some from Emilys class party. And these ones are succulent. Truly very good. And she got them from Sams Club. Hard to believe they have anything of quality but go figure. I endorse them.

Right now it’s bedtime. Emily is already in bed. She does not wait for me. I’ll go up and smack her around. Just kidding.

I may have mentioned I have three IrS audits going on right now. Which is three seperate personalities. Three different attitudes. Sets of expectations. Etc. Also one audit is out of state, just as a kicker. I had a scheduled meeting with one of the auditors today but she called last week to reschedule. And I was never able to get ahold of her again. I wonder if she is showing up today or not? Who knows. The other two are in good shape so to speak.

I am going to go workout this morning. Yes, I understand this is no surprise. But I have to state the obvious, as if this were news to someone.

Before I left for my workout, promptly at 802am, my appointment with the IRS called. She is unable to make it to the scheduled time today so we postponed for a week. Thank god. And, to top this off, my next appointment at 11 cancelled. Yay!! This is a good day.

I went to the gym knowing no one was going to screw up my schedule today. I feel so much better. My workout will be better. Extra better. Nowhere to be at a certain time frees up my day. I had a fantastic time. I met the new manager. She took over for Denice who quit. Denice was in charge of creating my workouts. Now it will be new girl Rachel. She’s nice. I look forward to alleviating some of the boredom that sets in.

Home to shower and get set for the day. It has been damn cold lately but today is sunny and mild. So I dressed for that. Turns out, that was a mistake. Oh well.

Instead of driving to the office, I drove to north Sacrmento to pick up my truck. A client has a truck superstore there and he fixed my ripped bedliner as well as a few other small repairs. My client, Jesse, has been a client since 1994. I am the only accountant he has ever had. Long time. Nice guy, nice family.

Drove back to the office. Instead of sticking around I borrowed a smaller car (my truck is huge) and went to the bank. I made all my deposits finally. Relief. Back to the office.

Now the work day really starts. I paid all the past due expenses I had from the accounts I just opened. My mortgages were first. One is $124.99 late fee late. The other was ok. Just late.

After all this excitement of my day, I switched to tax returns. I did manage to get a few finished. That’s good news. I had one last appointment at 5pm with an old line client. His return I got done in one sitting. After his, I finished one more. And strangely, he called right at that time. Weird. He, of course, had more to add that he had forgotten about. Quite a common occurrence I have found. Just means I have to wait for info in order to get the tax return done. Also common.

That was it for my evening. I loaded up and went home. I am tired of dealing with this shit and want to go home for dinner.

Drive again was uneventful. The truck does drive very nicely. It’s heavy so you don’t feel the road like you do with a car.

I got home. I let the dogs out to do their thing. Let them back in and the GD Poodle pissed on the rug next to the door. I hate that dog. I would beat her ass but Emily doesn’t like that. The dog needs a swift swat.

Emily picked up dinner to go. So that means no dinner to fix. Since the downstairs TV is not working we went to bed right after dinner.

I didn’t go into the office today. For years Wednesday has been the work from home day. Since the kids left, not so much. But today was back to normal. I got up early since I wasn’t sleeping. Managed to coffee and breakfast both of us. Lunches my lovely wife. Gave her the Last piece of cake. The cake she made. I ate the last piece of the lemon, but let’s face it, she never does so I was safe. Wrong. She had wanted the last bite. So I tried to make up for it. I can’t wait to see if she ate it.

Work out was good. It’s been 5 days and I was antsy to get back to my gym habit. Saw all the regulars, surprise. That’s why they call them regulars. I feel better for having gone. Again tomorrow.

I had a haircut appointment 45 minutes after workout. But I had to go home and clean up and switch cars. I need to take the Fit in to shop to fix the tire pressure sensor. Still. This is the 3rd time to fix a sensor they broke. I may have to go to the dealer. So went home and took a shower and got the car. Realized I was late and called stylist Becky. She complained but still cut my hair. I look good.

Races back home for the next appointment. She ended up being 25 minutes late. Lovely. Took care of her. My next appointment arrived while first was still here. She kinda stood in the corner in the next room till first left. Funny thing, my first appointment Lisa had accused my second appointment of sexual harassment some years ago. Lisa did not even recognize her. Thank god. Gotta keep that in the database so I don’t put those two together again. Cat fight!!!

Once they were all gone I went back to the shop for my car. Seems they can’t get it to work. I hate this shit. I am the one out all the time running around, not them. It’s gonna be a couple months before I even have time to do it. Pain in the ass.

I went to the bank and the post office since I was in town. I had a ton of junk mail in the P.O. box. And some money.

Went home and washed the car. Did not get a chance to wash it over the weekend. And I need my car to be a chick magnet. So it has to shine!

Not much left to do. Had to go strain all my emails to find one I need for the loan assumption on our house sale. I managed to find it amongst all the 500+ emails in my inbox. I fwd’d it to Emily. The loan is in her name. We managed, later on, to get the email task handled. Agent Linda also told me we will sign the escrow docs on Friday morning. After 72 hour right of recision, the house is sold. I guess that’s a good thing. It will be a huge task done.

After all this Emily finally got home from school. She went shopping after work. For two hours.

I made an exceptional dinner of our leftovers from Sunday night dinner. Beef Wellington and asparagus. I opened a bottle of wine and it was lousy. So we had cocktails instead. Was a superior dinner. I take all necessary credit for reheating it. Emily had picked up some overpriced cupcakes at Sams so we had those for dessert. Not to bad. Not great.

We watched the Olympics for awhile. Then Emily had to watch Amazing Race. She thought it was the final episode. Not so lucky. I hate TV.

Now that I am blogged out I can switch to a book. I love books. Time to read.

I was up at 530 am. I need to get the usual done. And, pull a water sample for testing and drive it to CalTest in Napa for testing. I got up early to miss most of the traffic. Which I did. 29 miles in 50 mins. That’s fast. I did need the early start, I am meeting someone back at my house at 830. And someone else at 9. And then I need to deliver the truck for repairs in the exact opposite direction of Napa. About 35 miles. Then Uber to work. See, a busy morning.

Well all went well with the water sample delivery and return. The way back all traffic was opposite me so I screamed home. Turns out, no rush required. My 830 became 930 and my 9 became ten. These folks must not realize I am in a hurry. I have work to go to.

The estate sale folks showed up and we went through all the crap again. We got that done and they started to set up. About this time my next appointment showed. He is the buyer for my house. He bought my mower and sprayer for $2300. All well and fine but when estate sale guys found out those items dropped out of the sale, they decided to postpone the sale till we could come up with some more items for the sale. I guess they need lots of items in order to make a profit. Oh well. I made profit on the sale already. Good for me.

I left the house for Sacramento at about 1030. I dropped by Tremont to tell Emily that the sale was postponed. She was happy. We were killing ourselves getting ready and now it’s slowed down.

I am in the truck. I am taking it to my truck guy, Jesse. It is a few minor repairs needed before I sell it in the estate sale. Whenever that happens. Jesse has a truck superstore and has been a client for over 25 years. See, some people like me for a long time. He is the best kind of client, he does lots of things which generat a lots of fees and I like him and his entire family.

The office sang a siren soon so I went there next. Jumped right in and did tax returns and the usual crap. I did manage to go to the bank and finally open and fund all three accounts. That only took two weeks. I hate banks. But they are open. I am also trying to get a corporate account open and the bank is having trouble getting that done. They are assholes. Stupid ones.

Back to the office, the bank is disappointing. I did more work till time to head home. Not much excitement, just tax returns. I worked till about 615. Then headed out in Jesse’s Nissan. He loaned me his car to replace the truck while he had it in his shop. Like I said, he is the best kind of client.

Got back to Dixon and headed to the carniceria for Mexican food. Taco Tuesday. It IS Tuesday. Food was awesome as always. Emily and I enjoyed our dinner. Emily suggested going to bed early, because she was tired not anything good. So we went to bed at 8am. I was up at 530 so it seems good. It it’s now 10 and I am still awake.

I am gonna read until I drop off. That usually works.

Today we are closed for holiday repairs.

OK. It’s 545am Sunday morning. Or so I have been led to believe. But, I have no newspaper in my driveway. So, without that, how would I know for sure? You sit there saying everyone knows what day it is. If you woke from a coma, alone, no phone, you believe you would just intuit the day? I doubt it. Sunday paper is my first confirmation.

No paper so I guess take a shower and go to work. We are having guests over tonight so I gotta get in to work and get some stuff done before I gotta run back home and take care of them. No worries, we like them. But I would probably get up later without the party tonight to throw.

I have a ton of work at the office which is why I am up so GD early. I can put a big dent in it before I get a refill next week. It does not end for quite awhile.

The freeway was empty. I guess all the church goers are not so devout as to go early for extra praying. So, the trip to the office was fast.

I would love to tell you how wonderful it was but it wasn’t. I just sit and work. No texts till about noon. Everyone else up late from bed on Sunday. Or texting after church. So the whole day till 3pm was just quiet work. Boring.

Drive home was as you may expect. Normal, no real traffic. A nice Sunday drive. I think it best most drives are like this. If it were a continuous road rage affair you may think me insane.

I got home at 4pm. At least 2.5 hours before our guests. I helped Emily with a few last touches in the kitchen. She had worked all day, made two cakes and the beef Wellington. She truly out did herself. She was also packing more stuff away getting ready for the move.

About 5, with all the food ready or cooking, we switched to packing. Managed to get more stuff boxed up for the big move as well as for the sale. The sale is Friday thru Sunday and we need to have everything in position.

Barb, Kirk and kids got here about 7. We had cocktails and a little to eat. Always nice to see them. We have a good time just hanging out.

Once the beef was ready we went in to dinner. Emily seems to have perfected the art of beef Wellington. It was truly perfect. Wine and food were paired perfectly. The wine was the kind I won at the winery dinner last Christmas. Very nice bottle. Sadly only had one.

Dinner may have been good but my wife needed to top it. She made a Lemon iced white cake from scratch. And a lemon blueberry upside down cake. And she says she is not much of a baker. Right. Dessert was incredible. I am lucky.

What do you need after dinner? More wine. Of course. We sat around and chatted till everyone was too tired to keep going. The evening broke up. We cleaned up and went to bed.

Yesterday, my mover, All Pro Moving, delivered forty boxes, 42lbs of packing paper, six rolls of tape and two markers. So I can pre-move all my crap out of the house. Am I moving? No. I am having an estate sale and we are not selling all of our stuff. We are selling a lot, so we gotta get the “good” stuff out of the way. Hence the pre move packing. And, I say again, Saturday is the sixth work day of the week. I have real work at the office but I will be here today doing other real work. I really don’t look forward to this. And I need to mow the lawn. I thought that had been retired.

Finished the newspaper. Emily went to yoga. I am doing the dishes. What’s next? Mow lawn. I really want to put off the pack and move till Emily can be here and yell at me. Then I will know I am doing it correctly. Just a little guidance. And, now that I think about it, it’s only 9am which means lawn is too wet to mow. I can wait on that.

It’s now 125. I have been packing and cleaning since 9. Emily was gone till 1135 yogaing and shopping. And me packing. Way fun. Soon as I finish the next box I am going to the lawn. I swear it.

Next stop is a lunch of leftover burritos. So far, mine is nice and hot. And I hear it again “I don’t know how u can eat it so hot”. Been hearing that 30 years. I would think she would have figured it out by now. My tongue is burning from the hot sauce, though.

So I finally got the lawn mowed, roughly. That’s as good as they get. Buyers are lucky I mow at all. Though he may buy the mower. That would be a bonus. It only took an hour to mow. Dear God, please make this the last time I have to mow this lawn and let me move away to my next home.

One of the buyers, and three of her friends and the RE agent came by at three. Emily took a load of clothing to the consignment shop. I stayed and played host while they walked around and measured things. And I signed papers for my agent. At this point I would probably sign my own death warrant.

It is now 910. I hurt all over. I hate boxes. We did stop for dinner a couple hours ago. . Barb and Kirk brought by he remains of the BBQ they had for Kirks b day. We are having them over to our house tomorrow. So he gets two b day dinners. Dinner was fab. Especially the artichokes. I really think most artichokes are a waste of time. But Barb has oh so obviously perfected the art of the artichoke. She grills them with plenty of garlic and butter and I don’t know what else. But now I want to eat them and previously did not. She has changed my life.

After heaven if dinner comes hell of boxes. We both packed till 8. Emily quit. I kept going and going till aforementioned 910. When I said fuck it. Which is what I said. God am I sore. And tired. And getting up to xtra early tomorrow to go to work and do taxes. I will be sitting down.

Time for me to clean up and go to bed. Emily is already there. Tomorrow she will pack alone. That won’t be fun.

Today is Friday and the first day of President’s Weekend. Hardly much of a day off for us. Though, Emiky is still in bed taking advantage of sleep in time. I woke early because the day is full and I want to work out. Which makes it longer and fuller. I must be crazy.

Workout will be same same. But, after workout the show really begins. Starts at rental pod early am to get things for sale. That will not be fun. Couple hours easy. After that I have the whole day full of appointments and such till I go home. At home I will be getting ready for sale. Mover is bringing forty boxes to fill up too. Sound like a holiday weekend? More later. Come back, inquire within.

Emily and I managed to get to the pod and grab a few things for the sale. Large upholstered chair, several hundred feet of garden hose, a couple chairs, odds and ends. Usual sale stuff I guess.

Ran it all back home and dropped off. Then I ran to work. Had to postpone one tax appointment but managed to make the other right behind it. One out of two is not so bad. After that I just tried to organize the dump of documents I have received in the last two days. Took a couple hours just to neaten all of it up. And make calls. And go through a hundred emails. And the mail. And go to the bank and straighten out the banker so I could get my accounts open. Towards the end of the day I managed to get into some tax returns and finish a couple. Like that’s my job, right? Stayed too late but managed to finish up some taxes. I did finally get out of the office. And go home. Emily had made dinner. A very nice salad, and some stuffed mushrooms. I would call it a great dinner. I made a rhubarb crisp for dessert. With ice cream. I didn’t make that. But, it was the essence of awesomeness. I love rhubarb.

We tried to watch the Olympics on on our large screen. The sound has stopped working and we can not figure out what the problem is. TV has a great picture and no sound. Very difficult to watch anything on it. So we go upstairs and watch. Small screen. With sound.

I am going to go wash the dishes. And put the dogs out and lock up. And turn off the soundless TV.