Mountains of Paperwork
Last night I stayed up until 2 am talking with Nancy and Raisinfish. It was one of those marvelous conversations where time is irrelevant. I remember looking at my watch at 9:30. The next time I looked it was after midnight, but I was enjoying the conversation too much to mention the late hour. Then it was 2 am. I do not at all regret that conversation. Opportunities like that are all too rare.
Today I put aside convention thoughts, and writing thoughts, and Schlock book thoughts. I had to bury myself in state and federal tax forms. I had the usual batch of quarterly reports with attending forms and checks. Then I had the annual reports with attending forms and checks. This was all further complicated because we passed an income threshold last year which changed some of the rules. I now have a monthly report and check to do. It took a trip down to the local IRS office to get that set up properly. Being an employer is really complicated even if you only have one employee. But the reports are done and everything is in the mail. Now I just have to do the regular weekly accounting and assemble all the paperwork so that we can actually file our taxes and hopefully get a refund. That appointment is Friday. Whee.