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wombat_socho ([personal profile] wombat_socho) wrote2024-10-09 12:01 am

now we are sixty-five

I didn't do one of these last year because I was busy with Son of Silvercon, but since my schedule is clear this week, I have the leisure to look back and see how things have progressed (or not) over the last couple of years. Well, I do have my CE to attend to, but instead of 18 hours we only have to do ten, and I've already knocked one of those out; between the AFSP and the mandatory ethics course there's another eight gone, so by the end of the week I should be all done with them. (Sure I will.)

Physically I'm doing better than last year. Weight is down, BP is almost always good, and BG is generally good as well, though I need to stay away from Punjabi Dhaba in Amargosa Valley, because their samosas will be the death of me otherwise. My legs are better, too, even if they're not healing as quickly as Dr. Lal would like. Part of it is that I'm not changing my bandages often enough, which is stupid of me, but then I'm lazy like that. Mentally, I'm okay, I guess. No urges to rope myself or do anything else stupid like that. 

Financially I'm doing better. Barb called yesterday with some questions about the hotel billing on either end of the Oak Ridge conference; we got that sorted and soon my NSB account will get a ~$1600 injection, just in time for the Anime Fusion excursion. While I do have four credit cards, the VA disability is enough to keep me current & even make progress on paying them down, which is a Good Thing, because it allows me to do dumb stuff like travel around the country AND finance an SF convention (mostly) out of my own pocket. 

I am keeping up with my N3F duties better now that tax season is over and I'm just the Treasurer and not also the membership secretary. Someone else is handling reminders to people whose voting memberships are expiring, and a good thing too. 

I'm undecided about whether this is going to be my last tax season or not. I miss dealing with people face to face; phone calls and video conferencing just aren't the same. On the other hand, I don't fancy paying someone else to do my taxes or trying to fight with TurboTax or HRB's at-home packages. Guess I'll just have to keep at it until I die, I guess.