Saturday, February 14, 2009
How things change
Me, I think I'll have to appropriate "work-a-holic force-of-nature" to my sig.
And for a little context to that post, on the day I met with Ashwin, I (in approximate order of completion):
- finished up and delivered a 125 page report I had started Monday night (only about 40 pages were brand new as it drew heavily on intermediate reports though getting in all the required formatting was the most time-consuming part)
- put together a 1 hour presentation (but cut down from a previous 2 hour presentation with about 15 minutes of new material)
- reviewed that report and presentation with a sub for about 30 minutes (they didn't write any of it, but while they're a "sub", they're a much much bigger / experienced company and they were willing to give me feedback prior to submission based on an earlier draft).
- had a 40 minute meeting with Ashwin to loosely scope out 3 different proposals,
- had a telecon debrief for an hour with a project sponsor (and some subs)
- met with my business partner for about 15 minutes
- met with another guy at VT to discuss a different set of proposals and general interactions with a funding agency,
- met with the PI on a project CRT is funding at VT to clear up some contracting paper work (more accurately VT is a sub to CRT on a project)
- and got a quote from VTIP on officially licensing back some of my IP
- then some other random phone calls while I was driving (e.g. setting up the schedule for a trip next week)
Of course, other stuff was also done (like dropping in on Thason, driving for 3 hours and shopping some). But that day started at 5:00 AM and finished by 8:00 PM, which is a bit lax as I could've gotten some more stuff done (patents to file, papers to write / review) before I went to sleep at 11:00.
Labels: CRT, Virginia Tech
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Saturday, January 31, 2009
Your government form verbiage of the day
Gee thanks. Wouldn't want to distribute forms in a way that minimizes costs, like just downloading them. And wouldn't want to create a situation that just begs for people to get fined by trying the obvious thing (like using the form provided online by the agency responsible for the forms).This form is provided for informational purposes only. Copy A appears in red, similar to the official IRS form. Do not file copy A with the SSA. The official printed version of this IRS form is scannable, but the online version of it, printed from this website, is not. A penalty of $50 per information return may be imposed for filing forms that cannot be scanned.
To order official IRS forms, call 1-800-TAX-FORM (1-800-829-3676) or
Order Information Returns and Employer Returns Online, and we’ll mail you the
scannable forms and other products.
The way that is set up for getting them the required information is to fill out documents online, which after they're submitted can be downloaded and printed. And any transcription (such as from quickbooks to an online, multi-page form) has the chance for error, which is easier to catch when you can view the forms all at once, printed out. But (at least last year) you can't print them until they're submitted, and once submitted, corrections are quite hard to make.
Fortunately, this weekend I'm buying payroll software for future . In theory, (I think) that shouldn't be necessary for a 2-3 person business, but I've gotten tired of the headaches so I've decided to start partaking of the government created market (tax software and professionals).
Labels: CRT, Jody bitching about stuff that really isn't that bad but annoys him nonetheless
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