March 31, 2010
Dear Everyone:
ERRATA:
I have to make a correction to last week’s Letter.
In it I wrote about the AHM, “… a variety of vehicle comprised
of, but not exclusive to, large pickup trucks and high-end (usually
leased) luxury cars.” It
should have read, “…a variety
of vehicle comprised of, but not exclusive to, large pickup trucks,
sport utility vehicles (SUV)
and high-end (usually leased) luxury cars.”
This is not to say that
everyone who drives an AHM is
a rude
SOB. But last night,
as I paused after the gate, the driver who deliberately pulled to the
left, then drove around me to continue on up the road, was driving a
Lexus. And the driver of the
vehicle behind the Lexus, who honked at me when I yielded to the visitor
on my left, was in a large pickup truck.
And the driver who honked at me this evening, was driving a
pickup. As for the Lexus, as
I was turning in to Eastridge Drive, he was coming out, proving that a)
he did not observe the posted speed limit; and b) he didn’t live here.
Anyway…
A few weekends ago, I decided to do my
income
taxes. I had everything I
thought I would need, including the tax software that I have used for
many years (a new upgrade each year, of course.)
But last year, you may recall, I sold a piece of property.
Maybe I put some numbers in the wrong field, or maybe the tax
software really thought that the sale of the property constituted earned
income. In any case, it said
I owed the Federal government over $17,000.00.
When I told “Jeannie” this, over the phone, she
said, “No” and gave me the name and number of her tax
accountant.
I called the following Monday (last week) and received the word
that he would take me as a new client, but the only thing he could do at
this late date was send in an extension.
He called me last Friday and asked me to fax him my
W-2 form,
which I did this last Monday.
So I spent a lot of time last Sunday finding all
the forms that the tax accountant would need and making copies of them.
I also entered all the information, such as how much we spent
fixing up the townhouse to make it saleable, into a
spreadsheet.
So I’m ready as soon as he calls to make an appointment.
In other news…
Remember Documentum, the electronic
document
management system that I used to teach people how to use up until about
four years ago? At that
time, there was a department that took care of training for any software
products offered by the Information Technology Company that we now work
for. They took the training
away from us and created a
Computer Based Training (CBT) developed from
the training materials that I had used.
Well, four years later, that department doesn’t
exist anymore and the person who developed the CBT left the company.
In the meantime, the Documentum Support group has made major
upgrades to the software so that it doesn’t resemble the CBT at all.
The CBT even has a link to the Company
Retention Schedule that
changed last October, so anyone trying to follow the link is lost.
So now I’m “producing” a new CBT, using the
Adobe
Captivate 4 software that we acquired to make the
SharePoint training.
At times it’s a lot of fun figuring out how to use the software.
At other times it’s extremely frustrating when it doesn’t do what
it’s supposed to do. All the
“Help” articles and the book I’m using assume that everything works the
way it’s supposed to, so there’s no “Help” when it doesn’t.
But I am figuring it all out, and when I’m
finished, I’ll be able to claim lots of
Continuing Education credits
towards extending my Certified Records Manager certification.
It’s a Win-Win for all.
Love, as always,
Pete
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