So yes, it’s 2am. I finished the last bits of my final number crunching, and I have come to a conclusion, it is so time for accounting software and taking the time to learn it. TN has been growing slowly, nearly 10k more in this past year, and about another 1k in actual profit made, and of course, this year is going to be no different, with costs lowered on my end, and in turn also offering more to customers, I see some growth, but then also this calendar year I have a W2 coming, fun fun. In the end I paid more than last year (which I expected) the total was $282 (about $100~ more than last year), and as usual, state is no refund, nothing due. PTL.
Lots of prayer during taxes, TurboTax always scares the crap out of me every year, as it keeps a running tally of Tax owed, then after areas adds in the new deductions - so at one point I had $1,925 in taxes, and just started praying as I went over numbers again and again, (I need sleep) - only to run thru things, and finally say the classic “Your will be done” as over the last week funds have been coming in very steady, so I figured God was preparing me for taxes, well after hitting next to go into the new area, it re-calculated and it was less, then I got EIC and we arrived, lots of prayer tonight, and really a lot over the last few days, stress at work, taxes looming, and the upcoming court fun of my ticket, going to call the courts today from work and see what they say, if I can just pay it and do traffic school, so game.
Sleep is nearing, just HAD to get taxes done, and with the e-File it’s already post marked today, but again as I say every year, I want to do next year better, and I may form a LLC for ThrustNet and go from there, not 100% sure, but it may be time for an accountant as well - but with work in under 6 hours, I should probably wrap it up.
Anyhwoo - I’ll hit up the blog tomorrow from work, just been busy, tad crazy, and in this job I feel like I am re-living my first year of businesses as I am once again having hassles with what used to be Arrival, but at some level it’s not their fault, and yet they aren’t working with us either, long story, more later I am sure, but for now — thanks for all the prayers, thanks to folks who IM’d me tips on dealing with my court date if I indeed have to go, good stuff, much appreciated - but I must sleep, winds finally lived up to their purpose and brought the temp from 80F->52F lovely. Night folks. More later. Wheeeee!
Soooooo quite a weekend. Got to relax some over the weekend, a very very relaxed Saturday, got to eat food with my friends, and was even joined by the one, the only Dan-o! it was a good day, got some things done, projects finally just out of my court off into others, and a few more I plan to do the same with this week, just one at a time, bam bam bam, get them out of my court into the clients.
Then we lead into Sunday. 7am wake up, 730am out the door, arrive at church a little before 8, wearing pants *Gasp!* got to warm up a bit, didn’t realize we were also singing the congregational hymns as well, but no worries I made it thru, we sang our one special song, it was fun, I did ok, but I got to sing. Something I haven’t done at Church (well in a group) for quite some time, so it was indeed a blessing for me to really just get to belt it out with the choir - it was a fun day, followed up with a night @ The Hub, which was a little bare, but there is a group down in Mexico right now doing a mission trip, so I imagine some parents and high-schoolers who’d normally fill a row or two, were off across the border doing their thang.
We lost one @ the table tonight for Carrows (the Sunday Night Place) - so me and Scott snagged dinner, it was tasty, then I headed over to Poon Manor, and got to see Dan’s parents, the niece and nephews, saw the new game were looking to give a whirl, and just got to chat with Dan a bit, which was indeed awesome as with my work and such and him and val having a baby and all, sometimes things with work-able time tables get a tad sideways, but were making the time, and it’s good to see his family.
Anywhoo - that’s the rundown, after Friday off to recover from chicken-strips, I head back into a work week ready to tackle problems, get things ready to roll, and looking forward to some fun with Dan and Fam, as well as assorted other random fun soon! Hopefully the ticket will come soon, and I can figure out my budget, but sadly it looks like once again, I am going to be waiting on the apartment, not totally bummed, it is in the road-map, but one step at a time, God has a plan, and I am attempting to be more patient to let his time table happen, vs. my own So have a wonderful Monday, even if you think your getting a case of the Monday’s ignore it and remember the simple truth: “This is the day that the Lord hath made, I will be glad and rejoice in it.”. Night folks.
So what happens when you eat Chicken strips @ a local “brewery” feel sick, get thru the work day, only to get a 30m nap, then off to a evening with friends, tasty Chinese food, fun bowling, a piece of cheese cake and hot coco from Denny’s - well the Chicken wins. Oi.
Today I have taken my first sick day, probably one of the few I’ll ever take I’d imagine - just too tired to drive safely to work, still achy from puking my guys out this morning, and I got no sleep, so I am kind of half working from home, half taking it easy and laying on my bed, so far so good, been checking in on work email, got the work cell primed, but thus far things are running smoothly out there, granted it’s a 20 minute drive away, so if I am REALLY needed, I can always bum a ride from one of the rents, but I doubt I’ll need to.
All in all this week has been good though, some minor irritations at work, mainly resulted from some people letting their personal problems leak into their day-to-day job @ the office, throw in a time change… a little ruff, but I made it thru short of food poisoning, looking forward to next week - but also have some projects to get rolling this weekend, more tax work, get RM up and running, email upgrade tonight for Horde, also publish the new “Enhanced Email” setup pricing for FH, maybe get some time on TN if I can wing it, so a busy but hopefully relaxing weekend.
Well I have been sitting up too long, so I am going to head back to the bed to zone out a bit more, maybe drop in a movie - going to attempt lunch when it comes around, just not sure I’ll be ready for solid food just yet… soon. Have a lovely Friday everyone!
So today is a long one, I have some final bits of code to make, the image manipulation stuff is bugging me, but I’ll get it sooner or later - it’s not a “MUST” but I wanted to simplify it for the customer, if that doesn’t work, in the browse for local file to upload section it’ll simply list sizes that can be uploaded - and I’ll have a fixed size for the listing - but none the less that’s only part of the day, I have a 2pm and a 4pm, both are tech related, so it should be fun to a point, a nice time away from a console would be nice.
Server wise, DNS flipped today, by Thursday I need to cancel the old hardware to avoid further billing - going to try and do it tomorrow so I can FOR SURE be off and not run any risk of pre-auth’s and such against my card and run into stupid issues like that, but I don’t foresee any problems, it is funny though to watch the old hardware - it’s all at a 0.00 load now, the average loads of 2-5 were always fun to watch, but now each server is running good, the drive array is running smooth - and so far spam is down! So tonight I’ll probably roll over FH/TN and get them live on their new server - but all in all it’s looking good.
As per the first thing I talked about above, the code is to be wrapped up tonight and probably some tid-bits in the AM, but at 2pm tomorrow I have a meeting at Starbucks to go over code, and get some cash, and also hopefully snag some more for a server, so pretty jazzed about that - so today I am heading to Starbucks to make sure my T-Mobile HotSpot access still works, I did the tip from MacOSXHints [the tip] - so I am hoping to go in, order my Hot White Chocolate Venti, maybe get crazy and snag a cinnamon roll, and sit down and test it out and have it work no issue, if not of course I’ll have the cell, see what I can do to get it rolling via support.
Anywhoo - there it is, the status of things, busy busy, I have a lot to do, hoping today too to get a new credit card from a few customers, been happy to see a lot paying the last 2 days as TN customers were just finally all migrated to the new billing system - so a good start, and more to come! Have a great Tuesday Folks!
So here I am at nearly 5am, I slept most of yesterday in the end, as my head started pounding again I just curled up under the covers again, and slept, got in some good sleep till 6ish, then again until 2:35am, which I woke up feeling a lot better, already sweating out a few fevers here, and since I felt stir-crazy, I of course went to the store for some supplies - I did the full walk of the store as it helped me stretch out a bit, but now I am back, and my plan is EE until I can get ahold of kMan about picking up my check.
Yesterday I got a job offer, 40k a year + bonuses, the nice thing about the job is it would let me continue my current projects and hosting, but it would probably in the end require me to move, and for once I think I’d be open to that - thus I am trying to stay positive about it and really just take it up in prayer, a steady cash flow would be wonderful, a steady 9-5 not a big fan, but I could still do maintenance as needed in the late hours of Fridays/Saturday (Like I do currently) with the exception that I’d no longer have a big money issue to worry about, being tight with FH/TN is one thing, but when there are two incomes to keep things rolling, let’s me level things out with FH, heck even probably swing some hardware upgrades sooner than later - so my first big prayer request of 2008 is for this new job! So keep me lifted up, other prayer request would be for me and my folks as we all seem to have this plague.
Anywhoo - there’s the catch-up for now, busy busy morning ahead, hope you all have a great Thursday!
So tonight we had Christmas Eve at Michael’s parents house, it was good fun - good food, good pie, good dogs so a fun evening, I’d post more, but it’s been a long two days, and I am going to go mindlessly go and finish my mom’s gifts up, for whatever reason I am still not 100% sleepy, so I am going to finish my last 9 then try sleep again.
Wow, this week has flown by things have started to shape up around, might have a big client add here in the next month or so, working to get some details together for a package, so excited there - still slow on the hosting side, but no cancelations, so I am hopeful that things will slowly pick up, I do need to work on TN’s website, but I am trying to make my coding projects a major priority at the moment, which are going well.
Having a TV in my room again has been nice, between watching recorded shows, but also a Windows rig to take advantage of Amazon’s Unbox service, it’s lovely - plays great over Media Center allowing quick easy access from the couch as I code on the laptop, pretty clear on the TV too, at first I worried it’d be bad, but so far I’ve rented 2 flicks Evan Almighty (good flick) and Reign Over Me (twas okay) - but it was nice to have quick easy access to download, and on top of it, with Amazon’s Unbox client on Windows it leaves itself running so I can start it downloading while away from the house and it’s waiting for me, pretty snazzy.
I do laugh though talking about movies everyone said Evan Almighty was “blah” - however I enjoyed it, I think it wasn’t the same as Bruce, but it worked for me, that and I think you have to be used to Steve Carell humor, and watch for subtile things blended in, and I always like how they take a common misconception about Christianity/God and make it clearer to understand, like Lauren Graham’s chat with God in the restaurant - good stuff.
Anywhoo - time to get back to it, a long morning ahead of coding, and hopefully a moment or two of getting a pile or two of cash from outstanding bills in town and online, so busy busy - sooner or later I’ll get a nap in I’m sure so have a good fake friday!
I made it thru, we sang our one special song, it was fun, I did ok, but I got to sing. Something I haven’t done at Church (well in a group) for quite some time, so it was indeed a blessing for me to really just get to belt it out with the choir - it was a fun day, followed up with a night @ The Hub, which was a little bare, but there is a group down in Mexico right now doing a mission trip, so I imagine some parents and high-schoolers who’d normally fill a row or two, were off across the border doing their thang.
Have a lovely Friday everyone!
