March 1, 2015

 Watching people play CS: GO really makes me want to want to play CS: GO, but I suck at that game and it is a lot more fun to watch than it is for me to actually play it.

Today was a little more productive than yesterday. I did do laundry yesterday, which I forgot to mention, but that really doesn't raise the bar much. Today I read a textbook chapter before lunch and after lunch I wrote another discussion post, replying to one of my fellow students.

This afternoon my goal was to file my taxes, which turned out to be a bit of a thing. For at least the last couple of years I have used TaxACT for my federal return and some other site for my state return. TaxACT kind of lead me to believe I could also file my state return but when I got to the very end they wanted to charge eighteen bucks, so I opted out of that.

I couldn't remember the site I used last year for my state return and nothing looked familiar so I ended up going with H&R Block. Probably a mistake. I ended up having to go through my entire federal and state return again, it wouldn't let me just do the state return. And then it wouldn't let me just file the state return, I had to file my federal return again in order to file my state return. I read a couple places online that the second federal return would just get canceled out as a mistake so I went for it because I really didn't want to go through the whole process again.

I got an email later saying that my state return had been put on hold because my federal return had been rejected. The only way for my state return to go through is for me to “fix” the federal return. There is no way to cancel it, and I can't fix it, so it looks like sometime this week I'll be looking for another site where I can file just my state return, for free. Very annoying.

Also, a note on all the advertising H&R Block does, my returns from them were eight dollars less for my federal return and two dollars less for my state return, compared to TaxACT. So, yeah. Not quite as advertised.

Tonight I made some final edits to the Dr. Seuss picture quote things I made for the librarian if she wants to post them on the library's Twitter account. I switched 'Doctor' to 'Dr.” after my mom pointed that out, and I also added the username for the library Twitter account, so it will be tied to the source, not just some random picture on the internet. Although I put it at the bottom so it would be easy enough to crop that out. I don't know if the librarian will want to use them but I really like how they turned out.

Right now I'm watching a couple livestreams but I'm thinking about bed because it is after eleven o'clock. But I'm not really tired and I don't want to just lay in bed thinking about random things for the next two hours. Late last week they were predicted a whole bunch of snow this weekend, which could have lead to a much desired snow day tomorrow. We ended up getting maybe two or three inches early yesterday and it is pretty much all gone now. That is disappointing. I'll give it until midnight and then go to bed and hope for the best.