I’ve done my own taxes most of my life. It’s been more complicated since I moved up here and married TYG — mortgage and other stuff — but manageable. This year not so much.
Without going into detail we did a lot of financial stuff this year we haven’t done in the past. Lots more forms to fill out. Lots more numbers to crunch. And a lot of it is stuff I’m not familiar with. That’s not a huge problem — for all the crap about our incomprehensible tax laws, the IRS instructions are pretty clear — but in a couple of spots even though I was following the directions I didn’t see the logic of them the way I do when, say, calculating Self Employment Tax. This left me feeling uncomfortable, as if I must have made a mistake. I don’t think I did; worst-case scenario, they tell us to send more money. I still don’t like the feeling.
Taxes took up a day and a half this week. Otherwise it was fairly productive. You may notice one result, some e-commerce links on the dashboard at top (checkout, shop, cart). I’ve been planning for a while to try selling things I’ve published through my Behold the Book imprint directly and so I got halfway through setting up the Woocommerce plug-in. This was the free two-week trial period but I didn’t have time to give it much of a trial. Still, it shouldn’t be too expensive if I try it and it flops. I will regret the wasted time though.
The downside is that I had to upgrade to the Creator wordpress plan. It automatically switches me over to the supposedly upgraded “block” system of posting and I’ve been avoiding that. I’m sure it has amazing features that make it worth while but I don’t use any of them yet. From my perspective it’s horribly clunky and slow; posting an image, for instance, takes several more steps than it did with the old post template. Hopefully there’s a work around.
I got a Local Reporter story in about Carrboro’s efforts to serve non-English speakers. At Atomic Junkshop I discussed my recent experience watching Turner Classic Movies for the first time in years.
I got about 5,000 words edited for Southern Discomfort. I’m also reconsidering a minor plot point that’s not as essential to the plot and possibly not as logical. It’d take some editing but no big deal to fix.
Due to TYG’s crazy schedule my exercise was gone with the wind. I really need to do better but I’m not sure how.
#SFWApro. Cover by Jack Kirby with Steve Ditko inks. All rights to images remain with current holders.
