new territory

[saw]

I'm typing to screen
this is new territory
we'll see if spontaneity
has a place here for this poet
as you know, I'm a yellow pad guy
and I like black ink on my fingers
it just occurred to me
a compromise would be
to wipe my keyboard down with ink
and put on my yellow sunglasses
it's all about being comfortable
at least I blame this lousy poem
on this reckless dive into the unknown
it's kind of a license to type your thoughts
as they come, one by one.....Oh
now if I can just overcome the embarrassment
and push that button that reads, Submit

[mtmynd]

Yea, our digital world seems to choke on pen & pencil writings.

If we're going to keep up with the digital world that continues growing...? damn, what to do...?

[sasha]

I can type faster than I can write, and a lot more legibly - I gave up on longhand back around '93, when I got my 1st computer (a screamin' 486 with a 250MB hard drive, man! ) ... before MS Word, before Notepad - used a line editor called PC Write... them were the Wild West days !

[creativesoul]

Sweet!
Submit

[saw]

I never write longhand...I've been printing everything I possibly can since high school....I can print faster than most people can write or type ( legibly )...of course I have about 55 years of experience.....

[sasha]

The keyboard has ruined my penmanship, so I've forsaken longhand for printing as well - reinforced by 40+ years in engineering. But I still prefer typing - took a semester of touch-typing in high school, & used an old manual clackity-clack Smiths Corona there & through all of college - so the neural motor pathways are pretty well established.....

My brain is pretty well fried today - just finished filing my mother's income taxes, and found the experience frustrating & at one point infuriating. TurboTax is usually pretty easy and user-friendly, but a mysterious & inscrutable error held up the e-filing for nearly an hour before I managed to stumble over a solution. I still need to do my own, but not today. I think a Guinness and a doob are in my very near future instead......

[saw]

Turbo Tax had a lot of glitches this year... you you get stuck on the dependents glitch.....took me an hour to figure that one out....but my brother said there there others this year....agh !

[sasha]

no, it was some kind of filing discrepancy - something about difference in reporting annuity income with the feds vs Mass. - it just said there was "something" wrong, but gave no indication what or how to resolve it. I tried calling their customer service hotline, but couldn't even get past their AI-bot manning the phones. I hung up in a rage, and after trying a few more permutations amended the offending form, stumbled by accident on the solution. At least it completed the upload to the tax Matrix in the cloud. Now we'll see.

[saw]

Turbo Tax had a BAD year !

[sasha]

Turbo Tax had a BAD year !

Apparently so - my brother says he had problems stemming from being self-employed for a while. I can hardly wait to do my own, now. At least NH has no state income tax to contend with.......

[saw]

yeah my brother had many snags.....and he does his two kids taxes as well and used to do my dads before he passed.....and his.....so 4 times the Fun !

[creativesoul]

No taxes from me