The sky is so happy that it's drooling. A lot.

Dec 18, 2007

The temperature is going to be in the low 40s every day this week, and there will be precipitation. Every day this week. The yard-area out back is now distinctly swampy, and I am beginning to worry about flooding later in the season because yard-area does not appear to have any drainage.

Welcome to the coastal rainforest.

I'm grumpy because I'm feeling overwhelmed. The rain isn't causing the grumpy — it's just a convenient excuse to bitch and gripe and feel, for half a second, like I'm doing something proactive (because whingeing is so very proactive. Pfaugh.) Normally when I'm grumpy I go out and walk, or sit and read for a while. Problem being: a) it's pissing rain, and likely will be for the next week; and b) I've got too much to do to be able to calmly sit and read.

Dammit.

Here's a partial list of things I've got to do:

• read up on business taxes for this state (do I need to charge sales tax on services? Or only on physical goods? And if so, how much? Yadata-yadata-ya...)
• open a business bank account
• update my online payment processors
• balance my checkbook/bank statement
• activate my new ATM card
• organize my office papers
• shred the stuff that's been accumulating (appropriately enough, in the shredder) since I moved in nearly two months ago
• pay my water bill
• go pick up the cat food that I special-ordered two weeks ago...which finally came in...three days ago
• create the site for the new "umbrella" business
• return the damaged box-shelf set I received late last week
• install the ioncube loaders on my primary server
• create a "test" list for evaulating some billing software (to replace the one that never, ever, fucking ever seems to be feature-complete)
• download, install, and start evaluating said software (hurrah for trial versions...but it's a 15-day free trial, so I want to go about this intelligently. I don't care to put down another coupla-hundred dollars on yet another piece of software that won't do the job)
• change the bedding
• do the laundry
• do the dishes
• figure out why the vacuum cleaner's having a snitfit (and pray that it's easily repairable)

...and I'm absolutely sure I'm forgetting a few (dozen) things. Many of these things, when taken in isolation, are actually quite small and manageable. But a few of them are pretty daunting.

Dammit, I need a drink.

Or, you know, to just get cracking already. Hell, it's mid-morning and despite being “at work” for the past two hours, I'm still in my 'jamas.

Now would be the perfect time for that bumper sticker that reads “I'm awake and I'm at the keyboard, what more do you want?”...but getting one of those would be yet another item to add to The List.

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