A week of idleness and then PAYDAY
Aug. 4th, 2024 01:49 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
wombat_sochoActually three paydays: the VA disability dropped on the 1st, the SSDI on the 2nd since its normal day would be Saturday, and I got my DOE reimbursement for the July meeting on Friday as well. I threw a lot of money at the credit cards, paid my bills, and Monday I'll drop off my rent check. Also chucked $100 at Fidelity to start rebuilding the Cardboard Box Fund.
Did some grocery shopping on Thursday (ice tea and ice cream sammiches) and Friday (frozen Mexican food, yogurt, bread, grapes) but aside from going out to laundry & dinner on Sunday, that was the extent of my emerging from my apartment, even though it's been mostly in the 80s of late.
The video call with my clinician went OK; she's happy with my numbers and didn't suggest any changes. The social worker's call confirmed what the head of travel had said - mileage only, no reimbursement for hotel or meals unless they sent me out of state. She did say that if I wasn't working this coming tax season, the VA would have declared me unemployable and worked some magic with SSA to max out my SSDI. Too late now. I'd been thinking of quitting after this season anyway, and that might motivate me to do so. Have to see how this coming season goes. As I said to Carlos yesterday afternoon, the part of tax prep I enjoy is being face to face with my clients, and work from home eliminates that.
This was a bad week for my Senators. We went 1-5 for the week against the Twins and Expos; I'm hoping to do better next week against the Tribe and Kansas Shitty.
Started a Substack, on which I intend to post Obligatory Seriousness (h/t Cobb) about various topics like I used to do on my LJ.
Did some grocery shopping on Thursday (ice tea and ice cream sammiches) and Friday (frozen Mexican food, yogurt, bread, grapes) but aside from going out to laundry & dinner on Sunday, that was the extent of my emerging from my apartment, even though it's been mostly in the 80s of late.
The video call with my clinician went OK; she's happy with my numbers and didn't suggest any changes. The social worker's call confirmed what the head of travel had said - mileage only, no reimbursement for hotel or meals unless they sent me out of state. She did say that if I wasn't working this coming tax season, the VA would have declared me unemployable and worked some magic with SSA to max out my SSDI. Too late now. I'd been thinking of quitting after this season anyway, and that might motivate me to do so. Have to see how this coming season goes. As I said to Carlos yesterday afternoon, the part of tax prep I enjoy is being face to face with my clients, and work from home eliminates that.
This was a bad week for my Senators. We went 1-5 for the week against the Twins and Expos; I'm hoping to do better next week against the Tribe and Kansas Shitty.
Started a Substack, on which I intend to post Obligatory Seriousness (h/t Cobb) about various topics like I used to do on my LJ.
