Catherine

Sounds like the "blow me" bit is getting tripped.

​I just googled that one and WOW is it a big honking machine! I sure don't have room for something like that. Both of my "real" scanners (not counting my multi-function machine that scans just a little faster than I can copy-by-hand but is useful for the rare page or two) are small enough to sit on the desktop and behave themselves by staying out of the way.

Just as a raw guess (NOT being the computer expert some here are), I'd check the display settings on your machine *and* in Peachtree to see if there is some offset that takes a hissy fit after a while. Does it go away if you close the program and re-open? Or do you have to reboot the machine (with or without your special pointy kicking boots).

I love the TWAIN-compatible Kodak ScanMate i1120 but the drivers were never updated to work with Windows 7. HOWEVER -- it runs just fine from Adobe, and probably from other software. All you lose is the quick-start buttons and those are not that useful if all your scans are going to different places. The Fuji ScanSnap S1500 is also good but I think the more-vertical paper path of the Kodak is less susceptible to jams.

​I have no problem with the circles. Although there are days that's what I feel like I'm running in.

Thank you SO very much, Eric! I could not believe how much I missed the forum while you had it off-line. I do miss the "preview" of topics and the ability to jump to the first unread. But that's just me being picky.

I do the same as Ron -- schedule payments & let the clients know when & how much. I have NO signature authority. A couple of clients I don't even have checks; I send a "paystub" that includes net check amount and they hand-write a check for the net amount and give the stub with all the withholding info. One guy I print a check and mail it to the employee to bring to him for signature -- he's so flaky he kept *losing* the un-signed checks when I mailed them straight to him! (Then once he used an old "I found it!" check and gave that to the employee in place of the one for that week which he had lost. That caused no end of trouble with check numbers and dates etc and he got read the riot act and the checks started going to the employee.)

Thank you, Judy!! Will order those forms right now; I used to know that but had forgotten after years of e-filing.

Maybe by the time it's back up I will have figured out how to offload a video from my camcorder *and* put it up on YouTube to link here, of my daughter Gwen in the. most. amazing. Viennese. waltz. ever. just last night.

One shortcoming of the Drake 1099 and W-2 prep is that it will NOT create "corrected" files -- at least for 1099's; don't recall about W-2C's off-hand. So I have one set of 1099's that need a correction and while we've sent out the paper copies to recipients I have to find the right paper file forms. Drake's paper print-out has "Client Copy" as a watermark....

Good luck recovering from the stones! My husband just went through that in mid March. Just awful; you have all my sympathy!

YOU get the PIN. You need info from your prior-year return, so it's you and not someone making up a number or who stole basic info. No return can be e-filed with your ssn without that PIN.

Here's a new article that claims we think better when standing. http://phys.org/news/2015-04-feet-literally.html

We should ALL get those IRS-issued e-filing five-digit PINs. I got them for my family; prevents your ssn from being used by others. http://www.irs.gov/Individuals/Electronic-Filing-PIN-Request

Tom, you are absolutely right and there is absolutely NO consequence to f*@%ing over people's lives, finances, and life plans. They DO hire for "diversity" and *are* protected by unions and it seems the only criterion NOT utilized is competence. And that problem extends far beyond universities but there does seem to be quite a high concentration in that environment. And it cascades; the competent people leave in disgust because of all the remediation and extra work that falls on them. The best can always leave, so those left behind exhibit a lower and lower overall level of ability.

Hope your weekend is better!

I have a day care lady whose former preparer did not take any depreciation on her house/place of business. My plan is to put it all on 3115 this year as a section 481(a) adjustment. She is still in business. Don't know if that helps answer your question - but you'll at least know you have company!

Ditto and likewise! My daughter got sent an official (but generic) "information on graduation logistics" email from her school -- replete with grammatical mistakes a 7th grade student should not have made. Neither of us was impressed. No, I take that back -- we *were* impressed -- just not the way they would have wanted us to be.

Wonderful!!!!

Congratulations, Elrod! Please stop by for a chat with us; we will miss you!

Sure did; I agreed with Senator Bernie Sanders (VT; Socialist party) on something today, too.

There is a difference between being able to *navigate* and being able to *tolerate* institutionalized idiocy mixed with incompetence. I have NO patience for that kind of crap; there are far too many important things I should spend my time on.

Anyone interested will find all *kinds* of worthwhile reading on the subject of college costs at market-ticker.org. Just put "college" in the search box on the right, sit back and read the fireworks.

Ditto for me; CWU for W-2's and 1099's. QuickBooks for accounting/bookkeeping unless the client wants Peachtree/Sage50/whatever they're calling it this week.

so here are some oldies but goodies. http://www.hrtwarming.com/these-are-actual-exchanges-that-took-place-in-courts-6-is-priceless/