The tumult and the shouting dies
Apr. 17th, 2026 11:45 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
wombat_sochoSo it looks like a bunch of my clients cashed out at the last minute, which means I got paid for 55 of the 58 returns I did, and maybe cleared enough to make a bit of bonus. Between the updated Windows app allowing me to have the documents on one screen and Blockworks on the other, and getting Starlink to work in the final week, it was a lot less strain than last year doing the returns; all the strain came from getting returns to work on. Guess I need to be more aggressive about calling the clients next year.
I did a whole lot of nothing yesterday, as I usually do on the 16th, but I did get caught up on the blogging before getting swept by the Braves. Today I made it out the door to Raley's for tea, burritos, Pringles, and some Nixie sugarfree sodas which I forgot had Stevia in them. Blech. Also lost two of three to the Cubs in Wrigley since none of my "power" hitters could reach the fences except Tom Grieve who started in place of Vada Pinson in Game 3 against Jerry Koosman.
I'm having fun writing a fantasy with Grok where a mysterious Mr. Henderson comes out of the deserts of Nevada with $30 million from silver mining and sports gambling (never on baseball) and buys the Senators from Bob Short for $20 million in late October 1970 - too late to stop the Denny McLain trade, but early enough to forestall the Curt Flood deal. Grok seems more willing to entertain notions like the Braves trading Phil Niekro for Jeff Burroughs.
Guess I'll hit the rack and head for the post office later this morning.
I did a whole lot of nothing yesterday, as I usually do on the 16th, but I did get caught up on the blogging before getting swept by the Braves. Today I made it out the door to Raley's for tea, burritos, Pringles, and some Nixie sugarfree sodas which I forgot had Stevia in them. Blech. Also lost two of three to the Cubs in Wrigley since none of my "power" hitters could reach the fences except Tom Grieve who started in place of Vada Pinson in Game 3 against Jerry Koosman.
I'm having fun writing a fantasy with Grok where a mysterious Mr. Henderson comes out of the deserts of Nevada with $30 million from silver mining and sports gambling (never on baseball) and buys the Senators from Bob Short for $20 million in late October 1970 - too late to stop the Denny McLain trade, but early enough to forestall the Curt Flood deal. Grok seems more willing to entertain notions like the Braves trading Phil Niekro for Jeff Burroughs.
Guess I'll hit the rack and head for the post office later this morning.
