March 22, 2007

Burning the Candle at both ends…

I have also agreed to work on someone else’s PC. They are supposed to drop it off at work for me tomorrow. I already told him that the earliest I could look at it would be Monday and I am most definitely going to be sleeping late. I am planning on taking a couple of Benadryls before I hit the sack Sunday night and am going to sleep until I wake up and then I might sleep some more.

One of the waitresses that used to work for me brought her W2s by as well. I told her that I would do her taxes. That won’t take long. Most of the tax returns that I file for them are pretty simple little deals. The biggest thing is to insure that they have/are claiming their tips so that they get the maximum earned income credit. That’s where the $300 bucks that I have to write a check for goes I suppose. Either way I will charge her about $25. At least my tax software will have been paid for this year.

I had not planned to file a schedule C this year as I made very little money, but I may have to reconsider that. If I go ahead and redo it with my little bit of income that I actually did make (under Miles Consulting) I can at least take a loss and that may very well break me even. It really depends on what I did last year. I filed on for at least five years straight, but for some reason I think that I didn’t do one last year either. I guess I need to dig out that box and look. Whatever I did last year I will do again this. For 2007 I will need to go ahead and do it again though. With the additional income from advertising, filing tax returns, and just the three computers I have looked at this month, I need to.

I will probably be up until about midnight tonight. I have some other things I need to get posted on the other two sites. I may sleep in at least until 5 or 5:30 tomorrow. Every minute counts.

Dog Tired…

…why do they call it that anyway? I was wrong when I posted Wednesday that I only had three days left until vacation. For some reason I thought it was today. I still have two more days of work before I get another one.

Haven’t posted much today, barely even looked at my email. I had one PC to finish up. Replaced the motherboard and CPU, had to clean the front bezel as the power button was sticking in old food or something. It was just nasty. Then I had to reinstall Windows XP and all of their apps.

I booted up a second one that I was looking at for someone else and pretty much gave up for the night. Power supply fan is bad. CPU fan is bad. It’s a slightly older Compaq so the darn PSU that I want to replace it with won’t even fit the case. Tomorrow I have to look and see if I have an extra case lying around that I haven’t ripped the wiring harness out of and a CPU fan and heatsink. Haven’t even booted it up to see if her data is corrupted or not. The initial problem when she brought it to me was that it was locking up. No wonder if it was getting that how inside.