Catherine

A bazillion years ago I did the typing up of hospital pathology reports on the weekends. FIVE carbon copies in those rip-top forms. Every typing mistake needed SIX corrections (original and five copies). Boy, my typing was better back then. Also gave me one of my very-best-ever stories: one day I was SO utterly tired. All alone in the office, the hum of the ventilation, the drone of the doctor's voice in the dictaphone headset... oh, man, trying to stay awake was just about impossible. My head dipped, I woke up with a start, and found THREE reports that -- to this day -- I do NOT remember typing, all finished and neatly in the "done" pile. LOL!!

I have a Pardini SP .22 for competition; it is very nice and we are good friends. Only problem it has is every couple years the recoil spring needs replacing - my first sign is that it won't pick up the 2nd round in sustained fire. And it is fussy about ammo; lots of .22 is just a bit too long to fee properly so I now use Eley Sport. Used to use Aguila Subsonic but that's gotten hard to find and expensive. My husband's SP is a later model and not nearly so fussy about ammo. (My husband is also a Doug.) What do you shoot?

It is also a tool of tyrants to pass voluminous, complex laws with multiple revisions specifically to ensure that _everyone_ can be found guilty of _some_ law. Then anyone who makes trouble (=disagrees) can "legally" be imprisoned. All that needs to be done is to find some obscure law or regulation that the person broke. The CFR is now over 150,000 pages. You can extrapolate for yourselves.

Yup; it's here:

Time also to re-read the Jeff MacNelly 1976 form 1040 cartoon I posted here last year (or the year before?). Should still be an uploaded file under my name in the member area. "Requested by the Dept. of Agriculture: How many talking chickens do you own? Do any of them play the oboe?"

Yes they do, you can still buy it, and I use it every week! Our pistol match scoresheets get filled out in duplicate (with carbon paper); one set for each team captain.

Eli -- nice couple of rifles there!

Just ducky, as I edit ALL client letters. Fortunately, so far all I've been using is the Payroll program.

time for me to check, too... doggone it all, I live too clean a life. need to cuss somebody out or something. will have to consider who, and when, and how. :wub:

I don't get one. My online backup encrypts the files HERE, before they are transmitted, and I am the only source of the key. Anyone who pulls data off those servers will just get gobbledygook and I think that covers it. If anyone knows differently, please let me know!

To you, too, Elrod -- and everyone else as well! Great flash graphic, too.

My best clients get those forms -- and a $25 discount on next year's return for every paying referral. One caution: do NOT give those forms to folks who are pains to deal with, slow to pay, or other problems - the friends they send you will be the same or worse!

Just teasing, KC!! :P

Sounds like KC spent a bit too much time (or possibly sipped a bit too much "preferred adult beverage") whilst decorating her festive non-denominational holiday shrub!

No way. Ever. I am not interested in entering a bidding war for clients who will then expect top-notch service for cut-rate pricing (and despite their site's words to the contrary, that is what it will devolve to). I've told people over and again over the years, "You can get your taxes done cheap, or you can get them done right. Your choice, but you only get to pick ONE." I will also note that, over the years, the _only_ people who have "stiffed" me are ones to whom I gave a super-deep discount because of some temporary but legitimate reason/sob story or other.

To all of my friends and colleagues here -- Merry Christmas! May you have time for family and friends, favorite foods and old stories, joy an contentment. Catherine

Brian Sacks is very funny!

I had been using a Kodak i1120 that scanned straight to OCR-able pdf, which I then tweaked as needed with Acrobat 9 with the "Tic, Tie, and Calculate add-on for accountants). That got fried in a power surge (despite being on a strip) and it's just been replaced with a Fuji ScanSnap1500 - again, goes straight to OCR-able pdf. It came with all kinds of file management software but all I do is pick between pdf (for files) and jpeg (for online check deposits). I use Adobe Acrobat X (that came with the Fuji) and will need to buy a new TTC license or transfer the old one. Not sure how much help this is but it's what I do.

CAF unit is going to be closed 26 Dec - 02 Jan, including e-services. If you need stuff that week, grab it soon. Read this on another forum and can snag details from there if folks are interested. Catherine

Accounting client of mine called in a panic on Friday. Computer crashed (video card) and bought a new one with Windows 8. Installed Peachtree (Sage 50; whatever they're calling it this week) and it will NOT run. Sage will NOT help as they do not support Windows 8. I told him to downgrade to Windows 7. As for me, my new computer (that I am still configuring) is Windows 7. My principle on computer OS changes is to make the change as late as possible and let other people be the guinea pigs for errors, incompatibilities, and other problems. So far, so good. ^_^

Will do and thanks!!

Good heavens! I missed this post when it first came 'round somehow -- my apologies, KC. I hope that you are doing better now and that the prognosis is very, very, very good. Yes, that video is very inspiring. All the best, Catherine

MA certainly DOES need to straighten up!! Thanks for the chuckle.

MA has been closed for weeks. Just in case anyone wanted to e-file returns on Thanksgiving -- check with your software provider. ATX stops accepting returns for e-file as of 5PM today. Form 8948, anyone?

Happy Thanksgiving to ALL my dear friends and colleagues here at the ATX Community Forum. May you all have a lovely holiday, surrounded by people you love, and have lots of your favorite foods. We all have so very much to be thankful for. Among many, many things in this life, I am thankful for each and every one of you -- your friendship, your support, your knowledge, your wisdom, your smart-aleck comments (oops; those are largely mine), even your corrections. And of course, for the very existence of this wonderful forum! Thank you, my friends! Catherine