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I started my exercise at midnight today, and I didn't end Densha De Go Final timely, because it kept going and going even though I thought I had reached an end of a route. That led to me having to shower at 1AM, and being in bed by about 140AM after giving myself a minute to dry off. As such, I feel pretty strung out today.

Word is spreading around the store that I'm moving up from pushing carts. Two of my coworkers are eyeing my schedule and both have stated interest in taking it ...

My hire date is October 15, or somewhere near that day in October, yet they decided to conduct my annual evaluation today. In my previous 90 day evaluation and the two other annual reviews, I received no shortage of praise, especially on the last one conducted, but was ultimately judged to be the standard "average" in the ultimate ranking that concludes the report. Considering the nature of the job and the timing when these things occur (that is to say, usually during a busy part of the ...

The Form 1120 consolidated test return has three errors that I need to correct, baesd on the last note that the IRS sent me. One is their insistence that a Form is there which it isn't, and that'll be easy enough to plainly state. Another said an item "should be blank", but the element wasn't in the XML data in the first place; regardless, I have come to find out that I can still have the data parse correctly without other elements in the Form, so I figured that if I show the Form having ...

The call to the IRS was averted today, as I had a mail from them waiting for me at the start of the day. It appears that most of the items which were marked as errors that I subsequently argued with evidence to the contrary were accepted, but there's still an insistence that there's a Form 4797 in the consolidated test return which I thought I had made previously clear that it was not present in the return.

I'll need to retire quickly tonight so that I can wake up earlier tomorrow; ...

Today's visit to the store took about an hour to finally have my transfer to my new job position to be made. Delays in processing took the majority of the time. Otherwise, the move gives me a forty cent raise and I get to keep my current availability intact, so that much is all a positive.

Before that all occurred, though, I had the unfortunate circumstance of my computer seeming to have been locked in some kind of standby mode from which it couldn't recover. I had to power the machine ...

Today's main activity consisted of going to Ikea to get a few odds and ends to make the house set up a bit nicer for the incoming company. I purchased a few really cheap coffee tables to make use as speaker stands, and we also bought replacements for the kitchen seat pads and the bathroom rug.

Tomorrow starts the fun. I hope our guest looks forward to cooking, because otherwise I fear that she'll have precious little to eat, given the choices that are here. I also hope that I can ...

I really should have pushed myself more last night. I didn't take much advantage of not doing anything after making the post and went to bed roughly no more than an hour before I usually would have otherwise.

Draft.

19290115 21:20:43

FQ-S-4344

"Hi. Tell your friend that we're here to collect."
"Uh, sure, hold on."
Pulaski nodded politely and stepped back from the door to wait. Kedzie remained at his ...

In doing some research for today's draft entry, it comes to my attention that I have a few misplaced dates, the result of which requires me to either alter the birth dates for certain characters which I had set years ago, or to alter some of the draft entries which I have previously made. I assume that you know I would choose the latter. Even so, it's a bit disappointing that I couldn't keep the focus on the chronology better to begin with, but the whole point of rough draft writing is to have something ...

I got caught up into reading here, and I didn't leave myself a lot of time for writing. I'll try to get something whipped up quickly at least.

Quick Draft.

18570505 03:46:11

The letter, which Daron had left behind on a writing desk in his house, was dated as sent on the First of May and read as follows:

"First delivery shall arrive on the upcoming Fifth. Just after Midnight. Be sure to have a regiment of men ready to a massive portion ...

Today was pretty unspectacular. I woke up late, got to doing exercise after waiting to get my wife home from work, went to grilling burgers for dinner after that, played songs, and am sitting here now writing this.

Without having tax work to specifically do, I have picked the Trollope novel back up and also completed the sorting and other work I wanted to get done with my ES log file, so now I have a few things I can easier do, namely; know which letter street name values are valid ...

Draft.

19281122 03:08:29

JA-S-9600

Snap the carriage into place, line the pipe into the die, clamp the carriage jaws around the exposed pipe, press the button to drag the tube through the die, catch the tube once it's out of the die, let it drop to the bin, press the other button to send the carriage back. Repeat, repeat, repeat. The redundancy of the job never directly bothered William before; he understood that the job required him to do a single task repeatedly, ...

I decided to not bother with exercise last night (which, in light of how work today required me to push carts manually for the last four hours of the shift because one of the machines is now tagged for the lone reason that its grounding prong is missing from the power plug, turned out to be a good choice), so that I had some time to look at the 1120 test submission error list; sure enough, within a few lines I already see items which I'm going to have to contest rather than actually fix.
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After a week of silence, I finally have received a result from the IRS for their analysis of the Form 1120 test submissions I have made. In an attempt to quantify the overall result, I would give a grade of C-. Of the eleven individual returns which were sent, seven were without error. Of the four with errors; one is one of the Form 7004 extensions, so that is a simple fix. Two other returns have a few items to adjust. The document which they sent me of all issues to correct is six pages, and three ...

With no pending deadlines nor news from the IRS or anyone else, I decided to spend the majority of my day reading North America by Anthony Trollope. Volume 1 is here - http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/1865, and Volume 2 is here - http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/1866. I came across a mention of this book by a Slate article about Children's Menus - http://www.slate.com/articles/life/f...se_to_kid.html. It's interesting that he ...

The first thing I wanted to do today was get another batch of test tax return submissions out the door, and I did so before dinner. Before I had a chance to do that, though, I was contacted by Yodel and had a pretty stilted discussion with them. I know it's their policy to check up on customers and to try to do things to help the business, and the woman who called did her best to be pleasant about it, but there was no sugar coating the fact that the past two months of service that they have provided ...