Thing I taught myself how to do today: make fillable fields in Word documents.

This is not something I ever previously had a need to know, though I have worked extensively with such documents -- someone else in the office (usually Mom Boss) has always put the document together before sticking it in the shared office drive.

But! Downtown leases never ( Read more... )

I unexpectedly had a new tax client this afternoon, whose return itself was pretty simple (once we sorted out the filing status) but getting one of their W2 forms took an incredible runaround due partly to their generally being a non-techy person but also partly to corporate WTFery.

In summary, one store they worked at had closed, and their W2 was ( Read more... )

So one of my coworkers has Covid-19.

In some ways, this is not surprising. If you'd asked me which of the rental company office staff (I don't know all of the maintenance staff as well) was most likely to get infected, I'd have picked Mr. Commercial. And indeed, he got Covid by attending a live in-person church service and singing, unmasked right ( Read more... )

Me this morning: I have a 4-hour church leadership Zoom retreat today, which I will be attending from the rental company office because Reasons. My work computer does not have Zoom installed and also has weird sound input/output issues, so I will bring my laptop. My laptop doesn't have access to the company wifi, so I will use my phone as a mobile ( Read more... )

I took my laptop to Best Buy this evening, to get the no-audio-input issue checked out.

It's always so reassuring to have three techs in a row look at your computer and say, in effect, "WTF? That doesn't make any sense," and then later on, "If we can figure it out, we'll definitely write this one up."

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I have left my computer with them overnight ( Read more... )

Things done today:

1. Figured out how to access a virtual credit card and used that to renew my PTIN for 2021. Then I uploaded proof of the renewal to my account in the Not the IRS intranet, and filled out a couple other forms while I was logged in.

2. Deposited a check.

3. Purchased and mailed a birthday card for my aunt. Also bought some birthday ( Read more... )

I was today years old when I learned how to use mail merge. *wry*

I've just never had a task that required it before! But it turns out to be pretty simple -- the trickiest part was getting the bleepity bleeping source spreadsheet set up with the right columns in the right format. But the January move-out sheets and key envelope labels are all ( Read more... )

Random things done today at work:

1. Called a person to get them to submit the rest of their lease documents, since they kept not reading their email. Then I was on the phone with them for like half an hour while they had some DEEPLY WEIRD email problems -- like, they couldn't send an email to either of my company accounts at all, either by writing ( Read more... )

Today's adventures in learning how to edit videos:

I imported some of my own phone camera videos into Lightworks and have been playing around with them, in addition to watching more tutorials.

Thus far, I have figured out how to make text crawl up over the screen, which apparently is called a roll rather than a crawl? Or at least Lightworks uses " ( Read more... )

Things I have done today:

1. Long phone chat with Susan from noon to not-quite-2pm. It was good to catch up!

2. Changed linens. Also rotated my mattress, which I think will help my sleep quality. I try to do that every time I swap my summer blankets for my comforter and vice versa, but I forgot to do that in October and the dents in the mattress were ( Read more... )