I was up around 1. Too late to just ride over to this one local place, called them and no answer anyway. In fact I called 6 - 8 places and one actually answered the phone - they might call me back "sometime this week" if they think they want to.
I guess being able to just find a tax place and have it taken care of is another thing that's died due to the virus. A few hours later a place called me back to say they're not taking on clients now and are very busy this time of year.
I got my practice in last night while watching documentaries on YouTube. The theoretical reader may wonder why I'm practicing while watching a show? Doesn't that seem to distract from the practice? Yes and no, I suppose. I remember when I was really into trumpet, watching the movie "Trumpets Republic" about the hotshot Balkan Brass players over in Serbia, and that year's champion would practice while watching awful Eastern European soft porn, it looked like. So I got into the habit of watching say, a documentary that's 1 hour long and practicing during it, so I knew I'd put an hour in. Or an hour-and-a-half one or whatever.
I sure don't want to be distracted if I'm working on a serious performance piece but I'm not at that stage yet. I'm at the stage of learning very basic things and building up lung power and breathing habits. Like a tennis player going out and hitting "200 balls" every day, or a classical guitarist practicing those simple little Lego blocks classical guitar is built up out of. It's skills that will stay with me, even if lose everything and have to be a street bum with a flute.
To make last night and a good part of today more interesting, my anus was stinging and itching like nothing I've experienced before. I tried cleaning the outside, hydrocortisone cream, squirming around, everything. It was awful and did nothing to improve my mood. I even read online about this and it was not encouraging - it might go on for weeks or become a chronic condition. Of all things! I finally took my now-dreaded daily crap, and when done used a little bottle I'd gotten a while back to be a sort of makeshift bidet, and washed up real good. And the problem was solved! No wonder people who use bidets are so enthusiastic about them. I'm not going to hook up a bidet to the toilet here, but I might get a travel type one, essentially a glorified squirt bottle. Those are best searched for under the name shattaf, as that's what Muslims call a bidet.
Breakfast was scrambled eggs with onions and cabbage in, and I've got scrambled eggs just about dialed in right. I put shoyu, mirin, and some instant dashi mixed in, and they come out great. Kind of like making tamagoyaki but just scrambling the eggs instead. I got the idea from getting some of those impulse buy mixes for eggs at Nijiya and then realizing that at about $3 each, it'd be best to come up with the same thing myself.
At the end of "today" I went to download to last couple of forms to have the same ones as I used for 2018 and it turns out good old schedule C has been replaced by Schedule 2, and another one's been eliminated altogether so it's no wonder the 1040 instructions for 2019 seemed so confusing. Also, I remember now that I'd taken some of the "smaller" forms like the Schedule SE and filled those in first, which made the main one, the 1040, easier. Man, skip one year and you forget a lot. So between this and having called about 8 tax places today, I've done enough.
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