Irregular Payments

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No, I have not intentionally gone AWOL again, and don’t plan to be incognito too much longer (or, actually, as long as I have been).

Alas, it’s tax season, by far someone working in tax accounting’s - in particular, my - most insane time o’ the year, so time is a luxury I don’t have much of…

And even better, it’s late February, and I’m employed in a practice in the rural Midwest, which means just a few days left until all those farmers who owe on their taxes and haven’t paid any estimates can file their returns without getting a penalty tacked on to their bill. And, trust me here, farmers tend to be a tad creative with their bookkeeping methodology, so it generally makes for more work to eek out the requisite information than your run of the mill self-employed individual.

It’s our bread and butter though, and I don’t mind the work or the clients - it’s just the volume that can be insane! Needless to say, scraping the ol’ grey matter for an interesting post or two hasn’t really crossed the mind more than once or twice the last couple weeks, and then only in a “the hell if I’m going drag my exhausted butt up to stare at a computer some more” way. A few 100+ hour weeks tend to do that to a fella…

The end (of this particular segment anyway) is in sight, so look for a bit more activity around here in the not too distant future. But right now, a few hours of sleep beckon…

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