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wombat_socho) wrote2025-03-14 12:44 am
wombat_socho) wrote2025-03-14 12:44 am
Entry tags:
- family drama,
- fat,
- nssab,
- weather,
- work
Some questionably good news
Conference call this afternoon before work in which it was announced that the NSSAB meeting scheduled for April 16 in Beatty and the National Chairs Conference the following week would both be virtual instead of in-person because of the uncertainty regarding DoE's budget. Not mentioned but undoubtedly a factor: the chance of a shutdown on Friday. I'm somewhat relieved by the news, frankly - the notion of hopping in the car on 4/16 and getting my ass to Beatty the day after the tax deadline did not thrill me, nor did the idea of going to Vegas the following week for the chairs meeting. They could change their minds again, I suppose, but I'm just as pleased to kick back and attend the meetings from home, even if there's no travel pay in the offing.
Work has been picking up a little, oddly enough; I keep getting a few TPR a week, most of which are quickly finished and quickly paid for, and I currently have a couple of chonky returns with lots of stock transactions & other fun things. I need to call a client about one of those since her brokers screwed her and sold a LOT of stock which they didn't bother withholding taxes on, so she has a huge tax bill and owes us a lot of money too. She's first on my list of priorities tomorrow; I should have called her today but I got bumrushed by a couple of clients and next thing I knew it was after 2000.
I was surprised to get a call from the ex, who sounded chipper and cheerful for a change. She thanked me for all the fudge, which she's still nibbling away at (I'd forgotten I sent her about 2 pounds of the stuff) and was suitably amused about its origins.
Weight is slowly coming down from the wretched excess it reached during the Confinement excursion, though my BG bumped up slightly today.
It snowed last night, which sucked, but I didn't have to go out so I didn't. Probably won't go out until tomorrow night, when I'll be out of tea and will also need to pick up some corned beef for St. Patrick's.
Work has been picking up a little, oddly enough; I keep getting a few TPR a week, most of which are quickly finished and quickly paid for, and I currently have a couple of chonky returns with lots of stock transactions & other fun things. I need to call a client about one of those since her brokers screwed her and sold a LOT of stock which they didn't bother withholding taxes on, so she has a huge tax bill and owes us a lot of money too. She's first on my list of priorities tomorrow; I should have called her today but I got bumrushed by a couple of clients and next thing I knew it was after 2000.
I was surprised to get a call from the ex, who sounded chipper and cheerful for a change. She thanked me for all the fudge, which she's still nibbling away at (I'd forgotten I sent her about 2 pounds of the stuff) and was suitably amused about its origins.
Weight is slowly coming down from the wretched excess it reached during the Confinement excursion, though my BG bumped up slightly today.
It snowed last night, which sucked, but I didn't have to go out so I didn't. Probably won't go out until tomorrow night, when I'll be out of tea and will also need to pick up some corned beef for St. Patrick's.