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Today's been pretty odd. I start out the day engaging in an exchange with a broker who is handling my uncle's property sales, and doing that requires submission and verification of tax forms. The way mine are formed puts information out only as required, so some of the paper form fields are unfilled where they normally would be. After other notes were passed, I come to discover that something was accidentally omitted and needs to be amended. After a few hours, we come to verify that the amending ...

I received a notice from the village board that I have exceedingly long weeds in the front portion of the lawn and am in violation of some kind of international statute (yes, really) which will make me liable to a fine if I don't correct the issue immediately or respond to the letter in five days. I swear that I've had weeds in greater height and quantity for the same period of time before, and have done so without incident, so I'm assuming that the issuing party is someone who is just keeping busy ...

I consulted with the home page of the bike shop and came to see that the person who helped me with the cartridge and hub yesterday was the store's manager. After work and dinner, I arrive there today and he was there to help me again. Thankfully, there was a new bike on sale for $200 and he allowed the return of the hub that I had purchased yesterday. I guess as long as I use the bike for at least two months in the same fashion as I have done before, then that would have been the same amount that ...

Today I had a lot of things I wanted to get done. My full session with the elliptical yesterday was mostly good, but I noticed that the handlebar felt rather short and that I had to struggle to keep my feet from overstepping in front of the foot wells. I realized that I wanted some kind of stirrup or other means to keep the toes restrained. I managed to acclimate eventually, but I knew that I wanted to make a few modifications to the machine. I also figured that using it without shoes would be fine, ...

My sister gave birth to her first child at 640AM today. A girl. I paid a visit later on this evening to see that the child has a healthy appetite and a scalp of dark hair.

I just finished a trial on the elliptical and I believe that it shall be an excellent venue for exercising. Using a controller on it like I did with the treadmill proves to be just as easy to do and effective, with the exception that there is less handlebar for my hands to rest upon on the outer extremities; this ...

First thing that I managed to do today was get a full batch of the 2012 Form 1120 test returns out for review. It was aggravating to get all four of the 7004 tests in, as I kept having stupid errors and was putting them through in a batch. Once I had that ironed out, though, I only needed one attempt to get the entire set of eleven submitted without error. That much is nice.

Later in the day, after dinner, I resolved that I was going to get an elliptical machine today. We went about ...

I remembered how to do something today. Hooray for me not being totally useless. When a new internet security certificate is acquired, on top of revising everything within the IRS program, you have to upload a file to the IRS e-services domain as well. With the start of the morning today, I had a mail sent to me which told me that I hadn't done so yet, and I indeed had forgotten that I had done that initially two years ago. Initially, I had forgotten specifically what it was I needed to do, so ...

IRS response to my latest issue did come in today, and it affirmed what I contemplated as one of the possible issues, especially considering that the error message shown a date which didn't change - the certificate file which I was using to log onto their system was expired. Now, when I renewed my certificate and I was speaking to a representative of their company about it, I asked if I had to reobtain any files or information and they said that it shouldn't be necessary. With that resolved, I was ...

I had yesterday's entry written before 11PM, so that I could use the treadmill and listen to Joe Frank on NPR. I prepare my clothes and set the machine up, and I get the lubrication stick out to grease up the undercarriage of the treadmill. For the first time, I have a bump strike against the stick and felt the stick get caught against the obstruction. I reach my hand down underneath the belt to feel the surface and, despite the layer of Astroglide coating it, the bump feels rough to my fingers. ...

I might have to buy a new bike. The main gear in the rear wheel was something that I already had to take apart and reconstruct once, because the inner most gear wheel warped and became loose. Since then, I had the bike speed set one speed lower so that it would function. When I went about to go to work today, the gear spun freely as I pedaled and didn't catch the wheel. I asked my mother in law to visit a local bike shop to see if that gear piece can be purchased. She went to two places and came ...

It took at least an hour of flopping around in bed like a dry fish before I finally got to sleep. Waking up was difficult, and there were periods in the early morning of work where I felt more drained than normal. However, the rest of the day at retail went good enough, and the issue with the roof on the house seems to have been with a few nail-wide holes that my parents helped patch up after dinner.

Draft.

(earlier - confrontations due to articles which showcase notorious ...

Just before my wife went to bed, we came to discover a drip coming from the ceiling, where the slide away panel is made to access the attic. There were a few incidents of sudden heavy downpours through the day, and this didn't happen earlier today in the morning when it came down hard, but it did here at night. I had to go out in the rain to get the ladder from the attic to peer into the upper space. The fiberglass around the portal was damp on the side where the water dripped out, but an adjacent ...

Well this last hour has sucked.

Earlier today I got some notes back from the IRS to get my Software ID numbers that I need so that I can run the tests officially. Good. My main plan was to get that done first, both for the 2013 Form 2290 set, and for the 2012 Form 1120 set, and make that my only priority so that I had it all done for them to sort through this coming Friday. Well, I go to run the IRS A2A program and I get the SOAPFaultException error as I load it up. OK, the last time ...

I guess I was due for a long hibernation, as I was in bed at 1030 last night and didn't crawl out until 130PM today. So much for getting an earlier start on the day. I have to help mom out with something tomorrow morning, so at least it won't be a repeat occurrence in this night.

Draft.

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Helen found it to be easier to slip out of her bedroom window and leave from the house this time. With tomorrow being Saturday, ...

I'm rather spent now. It's 10PM and I feel completely flat. I'll take a powder on writing and treadmilling and look to get a long sleep sooner, which should help me get my day going earlier tomorrow.

Shopping list.

The pet food and hazelnut cleaner is in pink, and likely at a time appreciably before the rest of the food items were written in black. Interesting to see that there ...