a slow day
Nov. 17th, 2020 09:08 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
edenfallingThings 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 cards to add to my stash for future use. I like to keep several around because I know I'm bad at judging when things need to be mailed and sometimes having something right at hand makes the difference between card-on-time and card-three-days-late, you know? Additionally, sometimes I find a card that's absolutely perfect for some specific person whose birthday won't be for like half a year so I need to buy it NOW to make sure I have it ready THEN.
4. Attempted to buy wine but the thing I wanted was out of stock, alas. I'll try again later in the week.
5. On my way home from the liquor store, I got an email saying my library books were ready. There was still half an hour before the library closed so I drove back into town and picked them up. My public library isn't open-open, but they're taking hold requests and are open for indoor pickup Tues-Thurs-Sat (10am-1pm and 3-6pm -- I think the break is partly for lunch, partly for sterilizing everything) and curbside pickup at scheduled 15-minute intervals Mon-Wed-Fri. They have been planning some tentative and limited browsing and computer use hours starting in December, but given the rising Covid-19 infection rates, who knows if that will actually happen.
6. Sprayed all my peppers (which are now firmly indoors due to weather -- did I mention we had snow flurries today? because we had snow flurries today) with a water-and-detergent solution, because the fucking aphids are back. I guess they were mostly under control when the plants were outdoors, due to wind and predators and whatnot, but indoors they are exploding all over my poor peppers. So it's back to spraying and squishing. *sigh* I think I will reduced the number of plants I'm overwintering once I get the peppers harvested, which should let me keep them far enough apart to prevent one plant from reinfecting any others.
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In other news, I have an appointment Wednesday evening with Best Buy to figure out why my computer thinks it has a microphone, and thinks that said microphone is working (no diagnostics report any problems), but has no apparent way to access it and also can't get audio input from any other devices, such as a headphone set with a built-in microphone. Hopefully they'll be able to figure out what's gone wrong and then fix it.
I just need to make sure to back up all my files before I drop off my poor laptop and am computerless for however long it takes. *sighs disconsolately*
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 cards to add to my stash for future use. I like to keep several around because I know I'm bad at judging when things need to be mailed and sometimes having something right at hand makes the difference between card-on-time and card-three-days-late, you know? Additionally, sometimes I find a card that's absolutely perfect for some specific person whose birthday won't be for like half a year so I need to buy it NOW to make sure I have it ready THEN.
4. Attempted to buy wine but the thing I wanted was out of stock, alas. I'll try again later in the week.
5. On my way home from the liquor store, I got an email saying my library books were ready. There was still half an hour before the library closed so I drove back into town and picked them up. My public library isn't open-open, but they're taking hold requests and are open for indoor pickup Tues-Thurs-Sat (10am-1pm and 3-6pm -- I think the break is partly for lunch, partly for sterilizing everything) and curbside pickup at scheduled 15-minute intervals Mon-Wed-Fri. They have been planning some tentative and limited browsing and computer use hours starting in December, but given the rising Covid-19 infection rates, who knows if that will actually happen.
6. Sprayed all my peppers (which are now firmly indoors due to weather -- did I mention we had snow flurries today? because we had snow flurries today) with a water-and-detergent solution, because the fucking aphids are back. I guess they were mostly under control when the plants were outdoors, due to wind and predators and whatnot, but indoors they are exploding all over my poor peppers. So it's back to spraying and squishing. *sigh* I think I will reduced the number of plants I'm overwintering once I get the peppers harvested, which should let me keep them far enough apart to prevent one plant from reinfecting any others.
...
In other news, I have an appointment Wednesday evening with Best Buy to figure out why my computer thinks it has a microphone, and thinks that said microphone is working (no diagnostics report any problems), but has no apparent way to access it and also can't get audio input from any other devices, such as a headphone set with a built-in microphone. Hopefully they'll be able to figure out what's gone wrong and then fix it.
I just need to make sure to back up all my files before I drop off my poor laptop and am computerless for however long it takes. *sighs disconsolately*
