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New blood has joined the store. He was allowed to come outside and join me and the other cartman scheduled during the day for a few hours, because the training system didn't have his programs set in place which left him with nothing else to do. He's rather quiet, and after I took a moment to ask about his school situation, I am informed that he has recently acquired his GED and has taken the job at the store to help out with "family financial problems", and that he intends to rise through ...

I set some time to get a few submissions made today before my wife would get to bed, so that I would play songs later in the evening, as doing so seems to have worked well for my scores in the past few days.

I'm working through the errors as they come, and the next batch is easy enough to fix - as it turns out, there are several Schedules and attachments which need to be added to the consolidated return in addition to the original returns wherever they came up. So I fix them and make ...

Waking up and immediately getting on the treadmill felt good for a change of pace. I need to make sure I do it this way every time in the future, without variance or fail. By doing the exercise at this time, you spend half of it in a groggy haze but can still march along and get the time under the belt immediately. It makes the rest of the session and day more structured. Yep, no breakfast, no sitting here to check anything, just get up and go.

I entered the office for the interview ...

Working on this consolidated 1120 return is proving to be every bit of hellish that I figured it would be.

I didn't create the XML content for most of the free form attachments until today, and all told I have 103 documents to sort out amongst four returns (composite, parent, and two subsidiaries).

The interview coming at 10AM tomorrow means that I should wake up at 8AM to give myself enough time to prepare and travel.

I didn't even get to exercising ...

The 1120F test submission was made successfully today. That leaves the consolidated return left.

The response came from my mother's coworker with the job opening, and I am to have an interview at 10AM on Thursday. I'll wear my suit and hope for the best.

Having Arby's for lunch today was a pretty welcome change of pace.

There's not much else to report at the moment, as I slept for fourteen hours today.

Today's warmup song was terrible but ...

Words have resulted in action today. I have eliminated and removed all that I can do with Diablo 3. All items are given away, all characters are deleted, all friends are removed, and the game is uninstalled. It is done. As I expected, it wasn't easy to do with a few people lamenting my leaving and pleading with me to not quit as I was online and conducting the removal, and they assured me that I didn't have to take such drastic measures in response to a mere mistake. In one way, they're right. But ...

Form 1120 testing. I'm working on the 1120F set now, and one thing which I failed to account for or remember is that the list of attached forms as they appear in the initial includes listing of the XSD file is not presented in the same order as the parser expects the files. The acknowledgements finally came in yesterday and my initial submission had a total of 41 errors, but a majority of those were cases where the valid entries were "0" or "1" (as a boolean data type) rather ...

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 ...

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?", ...

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 ...

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" ...

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. ...

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 ...

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? ...

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 ...