Studio8 - Uniting the Arts

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

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...?

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 !

Sweet!
Submit

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.....

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......

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 !

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.

Turbo Tax had a BAD year !

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April 2nd, 2022, 9:35 am

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.......

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 !

No taxes from me