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  1. LB log - 20130511

    I paid a visit to my parent's place today so that I could take care of any kind of Mother's Day quota today rather than wait for tomorrow. When I arrived, she was away at a nearby friend's place and said she'd return promptly. I remembered that I wanted to find an old picture of my Grandmother and went about looking around the place for it. I can't find it anywhere I look by the time she gets back. She finds me looking in one of the closets, which causes her to take a small inventory of a few things ...
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  2. LB log - 20130510

    In case you haven't heard, an item of news going around lately is that Penny Arcade is using Kickstarter to fund some podcasts. A few wrinkles about this as to why this is news worthy: a) Mike and Jerry already can fund this with their own capital, b) the goal was set at $10, which ensures that all pledges are received and eliminates any kind of risk, and c) the $10 goal also implies that they would have created the podcasts regardless. My single word gut reaction to this all is "why?", ...
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  3. LB log - 20130509

    With the Tax Code page up and refreshed, I figure that the next thing that I need to resume doing is my work on the Form 1120 family MEF development.

    I had this dropped basically right as I was getting it all figured out. I was able to get the first test submission compiled and successfully sent with a handful of attempts. It's good to be right back into the swing of it. I guess that it's not too much of a huge stretch for me to resume the work after having just finished the last ...
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  4. LB log - 20130508

    The update to include Public Law 112-240 is done.

    I used some lines of regular expression scripts that I had mentioned here months ago to streamline the conversion process between the working text file and the finished HTML documents, so getting that part over with was as simple as two double clicks. Running a full spell check on the document took a much longer time. The spell check insisted on the word being "tradeable", but once I found an instance of the word as "tradable" ...
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  5. LB log - 20130507

    The lawn needed mowing again, just one week since the last time. The yield of cut grass was at least the same as it was last week, if not a touch more. Yes, it is late spring, but I'm still a bit surprised that the growth rate has been so quick.

    In doing the updates I've come to find that I basically needed to scan each line of §42 to ensure that I had all the content. It actually lost a few items which might make it have less quantity than §401 or some other extremely long sections. ...
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  6. LB log - 20130506

    Allergies are hitting me hard today.

    Working on §42 of the tax code work, and I'm encountering some updates which I magically neglected from years ago which I'm not sure need to be retained now or altered on the basis of what's show on the Cornell site. I guess the next step is to go directly to the GPO site which has the .txt content and see how they compare. I'm willing to bet that the Cornell content is current, as it has been with the other updates so far, but considering how ...
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  7. LB log - 20130505

    I'd like to take the opportunity today to mention the latest aired Doctor Who episode, entitled "The Crimson Horror". The wife and I watched it today.

    We generally immediately agreed that it was terrible. The more you think about any particular scene or moment, the less it makes any kind of sense. The gigantic victorian loudspeakers that blared noise was used for ... what? The victims needed to be dipped into the vat of poison using gigantic cage structures because ... why? ...
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  8. LB log - 20130504

    Back to work on the OneLine Tax Code, and I have encountered a wonderful block of legislation for me to parse.

    Public Law 112-240 is the American Taxpayer Relief Act of 2012. http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/PLAW-11...112publ240.pdf . I've just scraped the top of this iceberg and already have come to see new rules regarding exclusion of beneficiary income given to certain people that is used to pay insurance premiums, as well as the very longly demanded adjustment for inflation ...
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  9. LB log - 20130503

    Today is the wake up call.

    I received a letter in the IRS that my refund has been adjusted - in the positive direction. I made a mistake on my own return. It was a minor error, and it didn't result in me owing an additional amount, but it was still an error on my own return. An error that I should have easily noticed and avoided.

    In my capacity as an Enrolled Agent, it is unacceptable for that to have happened.

    So it's time to re-evaluate my life. ...
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  10. LB log - 20130502

    I received a call at about 1130AM today, and it was from the woman who came to pick up her repaired PC from here yesterday.

    "I can't find my resume on my computer."
    "Let me walk you to the directory, I know it's there because I made a point to look and ensure that it was there. Click on the C: drive."
    "... oh, OK, I think I'll find it ok now, thanks."

    Five minutes later, she calls back.

    "What's the administrator ...
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  11. LB log - 20130501

    I was up against the midnight tick for yesterday's entry, so I didn't get to write the one sentence summary for how I felt about the song session.

    In reference to that writing, I had more to do with that woman's computer today. I recall a pop up that had come on before saying that Flash needed an update (coming from a pop up of a third party site), so I got it loaded and installed. Then there were some Windows Update patches that weren't installed yet, so the installation and reboot ...
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  12. LB log - 20130430

    Something which I don't take for granted is a lawnmower starting, so today's first use for the new year was a definite relief as I was able to get it to start on the very first attempt. Fill, pull, and off it went. Beautiful.

    If you recall the woman who was my wife's coworker, in that she was fired yesterday. Concurrently, she had asked me last week if I could help her with her PC. She has recruited my help before, and I was able to recover her content after she had fallen victim ...
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  13. LB log - 20130429

    One of my wife's coworkers was fired today.

    My wife's job entails money accounting and is done in full nine hour shifts in a room that is maybe seventy square feet, if not less. The room is tucked away within the building and the single door must be closed as much as possible. When you're cooped up with people in there on a full time basis, little things can become aggravated over time. The coworker had two counts ready to be held against her, one for her handling of an issue and ...
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  14. LB log - 20130428

    This is how I get a night spent without so much more than a blink in effort.

    Dinner has passed and I sit to check Diablo 3 for auction activity, as per normal. One of the guys on the friends list starts to talk with me a bit. I continue to do checks. I look up the latest listings on an item that I was looking to get, and the lowest prices were sitting at 200 million for some time; some would be posted at 177 or 180 and be sold within a day. I search now and see one a hair better than ...
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  15. LB log - 20130427

    An interesting bit of tax news came up in my feed today.

    The official summation of the new tax is posted by the County board here: http://www.cookcountygov.com/taxonom...%20handout.pdf . A form which individuals are meant to use to file this tax return is here: http://www.cityofchicago.org/content...rms/8402IN.pdf .

    Cook County of Illinois is now imposing a 1.25% ...
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