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State Taxes Paid Up. Onto the IRS
I finally got all my past state payroll taxes cleared up today. The monetary amounts weren’t that high (under $100) but the paperwork was just nuts. Sometimes I think about moving just to find a state with less paperwork (kidding, sort of).
With that out of the way, on the tax side of things I just have setting up a payment plan with the IRS to handle. No update there, but I did mail my Q1 reports to my Tax man, so I’m sure I’ll be hearing something soon.
My work life lately has been interesting. My main business is doing OK, and my Alpha project is moving along nicely. In fact, I don’t have really much work that I have to do on either of these revenue streams. My employees pretty much handle everything there, which is really nice. That business isn’t all that exciting to me, so it’s nice to delegate when I can. It’s left me free to delve into researching a few other potential projects.
I’ve been trying to teach myself some news skills lately that I could turn into viable businesses. Mostly programming….I really wish I had learned to program back in college or high school. I can do basic HTML, and some very basic PHP. I’ve been working more on higher level understanding of applications, so hopefully I can at least direct a programmer well. Photoshop skills would be nice as well. It’s just never gonna happen. The best I can do right now is learn enough to know how to manage an employee or contractor well. Maybe that’s OK, but allot of things would be cheaper if I could do them myself.
I’m going to do a big debt spreadsheet update either tonight or tomorrow, so I should get that up by the end of the week. It’s time to take stock of where I’m at and how far I still have to go.
On the social front….things have been better. I’m still having considerable trouble feeling comfortable talking (about me), but it’s not terrible. Plus, I’m not a huge social butterfly anyway, but I could use a few more friends. (maybe even the lady kind? : )
It would be nice if I had a larger place to actually have people over….it’s just not really possible where I’m at right now. Between all my business stuff and one crappy couch, it’s not much of a place to entertain in.
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on April 16th, 2008 at 7:17 pm
Yay on the taxes! Another one down!
As far as the skillz go, how about a Photoshop class? I took one at my local community college (in the art dept) and had a BLAST. I met a lot of fun people, we would take field trips to go photograph stuff and I actually learned a ton when I wasn’t busy socializing.
And you know what? You so don’t need a place to entertain. Call up the people you’re interested in hanging out with and ask them OUT to do something. Meet at a brewery, or a coffee shop. That way you also don’t have the added pressure of coming up with all the drinks/food yourself. It’s a much more relaxed way to hang out with people that you don’t know well.
Good luck this week with the spreadsheet! It will be really cool to see how far you’ve come!
on April 17th, 2008 at 12:05 am
@ Shel - Thanks for the tip. My progress on the spreadsheet isn’t going to be huge, but it will be good to update all the numbers again. Sigh, debt. It’s lame.
on April 17th, 2008 at 10:02 pm
I’m the same way. I am much better managing contractors and doing the business side than getting into the programming. I have tried numerous times over the years and just never took to it. Also, I spend so much time working on ideas that I don’t think I can spare any more time doing all the actual work. Though at the same time I am a control freak. Delegation and outsourcing make things work for me. When i find and trust others to do tasks they already know how to do, that frees me up to come up with the business,.