The beginning of the month is a pain. There are bills to pay, which means too much paperwork. Not enough of them have decent online systems yet. Some bills change monthly (at least for now), and others are harder to automate. I'm working on stabilizing everything and scheduling payments out long in advance, but unfortunately some of them cut off and won't let stuff be scheduled more than 90 days in advance. Others I just don't trust the companies. Then there's always fun stuff thrown in like car insurance which only gets paid a couple times a year and is completely manual. Too bad it's not like the house stuff - everything goes in through escrow and it's all automatic. :) I finally went and got together my w-2s and 1098s and stuff. Now I just have to actually print off the papers and fill them out and mail them in. Yet another hastle - it'd be nice if I could have telefiled at least one year, but there's always been something preventing me from doing so. Now with the house I guess that's probably out for good. Back to the old 1040 I guess. Today was nice, as I was again able to open up the house to warm it up. It looks like I should leave the Windows open tomorrow too. I had to close up half the house so I could watch a movie though. Movie was The Terminal which I thought was actually pretty good. Tomorrow is work again.

Last week wasn't all that fun. Just too much stuff going on. I did finally get a new version of knoppix downloaded though. Hopefully I won't end up running fileservers off this one (servers that need to be set up from scratch again after every reboot are annoying), but I am going to try and make kiosks out of it. That'd be a lot easier than trying to build my own system to try and handle every hardware config. Don't have to worry about them getting messed up either (although it hasn't happened with my current setup yet), since a reboot would completely reset them. Anyways, maybe I'll have to actually close the door to get some stuff done. Headphones and my handy away message sorta worked, but sorta is not quite enough sometimes... This time of year is no fun.