A slow start to the season
Feb. 3rd, 2026 11:54 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
wombat_sochoI missed a lot of time on the clock last week since I had some kind of low-level ick going on, not that there was anything to do anyway. I did do up my return and fire it off; none of the stuff in the OBBB did anything for me since I basically made no money last year. Well, sure, I had about $4000 from Block and another $1400 for Fidelity, but when you add that all together it doesn't even come close to my standard deduction. So I'll get back what was taken out of my paychecks and the Fidelity withdrawal, and that's it. Lost less money on Son of Silvercon than I did last year, mainly because I didn't deduct the expenses of travel to Confinement, so there's that.
The SSDI dropped today, so I paid all my bills and threw a little more money at the credit cards. I also noted that the VA paid me for my stopover at the lab a couple of weeks ago, so hopefully the reimbursement for the appointment at NWPCC will show up soon. Still haven't heard back from them regarding the podiatry appointment, which they disallowed for some bogus reason; I bitched to the patient advocate and they said they'd have the travel boss call me. Still waiting on that. Next week it's down to Las Vegas again for an optometry appointment, the week after that I'll have the (now quarterly?) NSSAB meeting, and the week after that I'm off to Nashville for Confinement. Which reminds me, I need to call the hotel and get a room. It looks like the airfare will only be about $230 or so, which is a blessing. I just want to be able to manage things without having to stop by Rapid Cash again.
Despite not being on the clock, I was a busy boy today. Before I paid the bills, I went and got sheared and then renewed my tabs at the DMV. Apparently they're now requiring appointments, but I lucked out and there was nobody else in the office. Got some breakfast at the Stage Stop and went home to pay bills after that, and around 8 I changed the toner cartridge on the printer, ran off my application for the Oregon state tax pro license and a copy of the Elucidator for Trish, and wrote checks to Oregon and Frontier, whose payment website was being balky. Dropped all that in the mail along with Jeanne's check after picking up tea, yogurt, eggs (you can't have too many eggs), cream, and English muffins. Forgot to get the fig bars, but I can do without those.
I'll finally get around to doing the laundry tomorrow night, I think.
The SSDI dropped today, so I paid all my bills and threw a little more money at the credit cards. I also noted that the VA paid me for my stopover at the lab a couple of weeks ago, so hopefully the reimbursement for the appointment at NWPCC will show up soon. Still haven't heard back from them regarding the podiatry appointment, which they disallowed for some bogus reason; I bitched to the patient advocate and they said they'd have the travel boss call me. Still waiting on that. Next week it's down to Las Vegas again for an optometry appointment, the week after that I'll have the (now quarterly?) NSSAB meeting, and the week after that I'm off to Nashville for Confinement. Which reminds me, I need to call the hotel and get a room. It looks like the airfare will only be about $230 or so, which is a blessing. I just want to be able to manage things without having to stop by Rapid Cash again.
Despite not being on the clock, I was a busy boy today. Before I paid the bills, I went and got sheared and then renewed my tabs at the DMV. Apparently they're now requiring appointments, but I lucked out and there was nobody else in the office. Got some breakfast at the Stage Stop and went home to pay bills after that, and around 8 I changed the toner cartridge on the printer, ran off my application for the Oregon state tax pro license and a copy of the Elucidator for Trish, and wrote checks to Oregon and Frontier, whose payment website was being balky. Dropped all that in the mail along with Jeanne's check after picking up tea, yogurt, eggs (you can't have too many eggs), cream, and English muffins. Forgot to get the fig bars, but I can do without those.
I'll finally get around to doing the laundry tomorrow night, I think.
