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The problem with posting the next day...
...is I kind of forget what I did yesterday? I think I can reconstruct things. Started out with recording an interview for the podcast with someone in a European time zone. Great show. I love guests who have lots of interesting things to say.
I had a check to deposit and since I don't have that "take a picture with an app" thing going, I drove into Berkeley to my credit union only to find out that their ATM wasn't working (and they aren't doing face-to-face business. The deposit can wait, I just don't like hanging onto checks. It messes up the sender's accounting. Stopped by Peet's Coffee to pick up a mobile order of beans. They have a good set-up with both their doors organized with a service table across the entrance: one to take orders, the other to hand things out. Stopped by Safeway for the rest of the list and even though they were metering people going in, it wasn't a long wait. More milk and a few fresh veggies. I should have checked for half-and-half again but I hadn't get cracked into the "fat free half-and-half" and realized just how unacceptable it is. Look, folks, it's milk. Just milk. With artificial additives. If you don't want to put all the fat of cream into your coffee, just use regular milk, ok?
It's been raining fairly steadily all weekend (yay rain!) which was ok since the green can is already full, but it meant I didn't get my yard-exercise in. I honestly have no idea what I did yesterday afternoon, but after dinner I decided I need to accomplish something fairly brainless so I put Jane Austen videos on and tackled the taxes. That means (as it has for the last couple years) I started by tackling entering all the receipts since this time last year. They I enter and scan in all the bills. Then I reconcile the checking and credit card statements. *Then* -- with all the tax-relevant stuff flagged in the finance database -- I start assembling the tax data spreadsheet. Last year I got so furious at the way TurboTax is gouging for anything more complex than an EZ form and swore I'd do the free online tax forms this year (having bookmarked the site where TurboTax hides them while officially "making them available"). It means I have to do my own arithmetic (horrors! not) but since the pattern of what I'm entering is identical to the last several years, I'm ok with not having the leading-by-the-hand aspect of TurboTax.
Today started with more podcast interview stuff, then the regular Sunday DISTAFF chat, for which I actually pulled out some handwork to do while chatting. (Which opened another can of worms for sifting and reorganization: my sewing cabinet.) The rest of the day will be more Austen videos and data entry. And then it'll be Monday again. And how's *your* confinement holding up?
I had a check to deposit and since I don't have that "take a picture with an app" thing going, I drove into Berkeley to my credit union only to find out that their ATM wasn't working (and they aren't doing face-to-face business. The deposit can wait, I just don't like hanging onto checks. It messes up the sender's accounting. Stopped by Peet's Coffee to pick up a mobile order of beans. They have a good set-up with both their doors organized with a service table across the entrance: one to take orders, the other to hand things out. Stopped by Safeway for the rest of the list and even though they were metering people going in, it wasn't a long wait. More milk and a few fresh veggies. I should have checked for half-and-half again but I hadn't get cracked into the "fat free half-and-half" and realized just how unacceptable it is. Look, folks, it's milk. Just milk. With artificial additives. If you don't want to put all the fat of cream into your coffee, just use regular milk, ok?
It's been raining fairly steadily all weekend (yay rain!) which was ok since the green can is already full, but it meant I didn't get my yard-exercise in. I honestly have no idea what I did yesterday afternoon, but after dinner I decided I need to accomplish something fairly brainless so I put Jane Austen videos on and tackled the taxes. That means (as it has for the last couple years) I started by tackling entering all the receipts since this time last year. They I enter and scan in all the bills. Then I reconcile the checking and credit card statements. *Then* -- with all the tax-relevant stuff flagged in the finance database -- I start assembling the tax data spreadsheet. Last year I got so furious at the way TurboTax is gouging for anything more complex than an EZ form and swore I'd do the free online tax forms this year (having bookmarked the site where TurboTax hides them while officially "making them available"). It means I have to do my own arithmetic (horrors! not) but since the pattern of what I'm entering is identical to the last several years, I'm ok with not having the leading-by-the-hand aspect of TurboTax.
Today started with more podcast interview stuff, then the regular Sunday DISTAFF chat, for which I actually pulled out some handwork to do while chatting. (Which opened another can of worms for sifting and reorganization: my sewing cabinet.) The rest of the day will be more Austen videos and data entry. And then it'll be Monday again. And how's *your* confinement holding up?
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4/5 Temperature 97.2 - so I've gone from bouncing between 97.7 & 97.4 to bouncing between 97.5 & 97.2? Let's just say that clearly I'm *not* running a fever.